The logic behind adoption studies is that
a. only personality factors can be inherited.
b. if adopted children are similar to their adoptive parents on a given characteristic, then the expression of that characteristic is likely to be influenced by genetic factors.
c. only physical factors can be inherited.
d. if adopted children are similar to their adoptive parents on a given characteristic, then the expression of that characteristic is likely to be influenced by environmental factors.
d
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According to Piaget, young children's thinking is rigid and strongly influenced by the way things appear at the moment because they are not capable of
A) magical thinking. B) animistic thinking. C) operations. D) centration.
If you were interrogating a person accused of a crime and you wanted help detecting whether the person was lying about his whereabouts on the night of the crime, who should you get to help you?
a. a lie detection specialist from the CIA or FBI b. your brother, Joe c. a person similar to the accused criminal d. it doesn't matter, since none of these people is likely to be better than chance at detecting lies