A Researcher Who Believes That Nature and Nurture

question 43

Multiple Choice

A researcher who believes that nature and nurture
interact to produce high-achieving children would be MOST likely to make which of the following hypotheses?

• A)Children who have older siblings will be more likely to do well in school than children who do not have older siblings.
• B)Children whose parents have high IQs will be more likely to do well in school than children who do not have older siblings.
• C)Both having an older sibling and having parents with high IQs will be associated with doing well in school.
• D)Only when children have parents with high IQs will having an older sibling be associated with doing well in school.
• E)None of the answers is likely to be the researcher's hypothesis.

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Definitions:

Oedipus Complex

The male child’s love for the mother and wish for the father’s death during the phallic stage.

Anal-retentive Personality

A term derived from Freudian theory indicating a person who is excessively orderly, perfectionistic, and rigid, often stemming from early toilet training experiences.

Anal-expulsive Personality

A psychoanalytic concept that suggests a personality type characterized by messiness, carelessness, and a lack of self-control, believed to originate from certain experiences in early childhood.

Anal-retentive

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