A researcher studies a group that includes the same percentages of male and female, old and young, and so on, as the whole population. This is which type of sample?

Leonard Heston conducted an adoption study of the possible causes of schizophrenia. What was the major finding in his study?

a. There was no evidence of a genetic influence on schizophrenia. b. Adopted individuals had higher rates of schizophrenia regardless of the mental health status of their parents. c. An individual's childhood environment has a much greater impact on the incidence of schizophrenia than do genetic factors. d. Adopted children whose birth mothers were schizophrenic developed schizophrenia at a higher rate than did children born to normal mothers.

Coarticulation is the tendency

a. for phoneme pronunciation to vary slightly, depending on the surrounding phonemes. b. to read more than one word at a time. c. to transmit meaning as well as phoneme information in any given English sentence. d. to use visual cues to help you interpret phonemes.