Karloss Has Administered an IQ Test to a Large Sample

question 66

Multiple Choice

Karloss has administered an IQ test to a large sample of people representative of the general population.If his results are consistent with those discussed in your textbook,he should find the greatest difference between which two groups?

• A) upper-class and lower-class subjects of the same ethnicity
• B) males and females of the same socioeconomic class
• C) African Americans and European Americans of the same socioeconomic class
• D) Asians and Hispanics of the same socioeconomic class

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Definitions:

Labor

Human effort, either physical or mental, used in the production of goods and services.

Core Countries

Nations, usually industrialized, that dominate the global economic system through wealth, diverse production, and strong government institutions.

World Systems Theory

A macro-sociological perspective that analyzes societies in terms of the global economic system, dividing the world into core, periphery, and semi-periphery zones.

Peripheral Countries

Nations that are less developed than the semi-periphery and core countries, often exploited for their resources by more economically dominant nations.