If Environment Affects Intelligence, You Should Predict That the IQs

question 234

Multiple Choice

If environment affects intelligence, you should predict that the IQs of children who stay in understaffed orphanages will

• A)gradually decline as they grow older.
• B)show normal increases with development.
• C)start out low but gradually increase as they reach puberty.
• D)be fairly normal until they reach puberty, when there will be a sharp decline.

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Definitions:

Isotonic

A solution that has the same salt concentration as the normal cells and blood of an organism, resulting in no net movement of water across the cell membrane.

Protein

Large biomolecules or macromolecules consisting of one or more long chains of amino acid residues, crucial for structure, function, and regulation of the body's tissues and organs.

Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis

Selective uptake of molecules into a cell by vacuole formation after they bind to specific receptor proteins in the plasma membrane.

Receptor Proteins

Proteins that respond to specific chemical signals by inducing cellular response.