You Are Listening to a Talk Show on Television Discussing

question 76

Multiple Choice

You are listening to a talk show on television discussing intelligence.Right before a commercial,the host says,"When we return to our discussion of nature and nurture,we will find out which one is more important." What is your learned reaction to his statement?

• A) "The question should not be 'which is more important' but how nature and nurture interact."
• B) "Everyone knows that nurture is more important than nature."
• C) "Everyone knows that nature is more important than nurture."
• D) "How can we know which is more important, since psychologists do not study these topics?"

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Definitions:

Hypotheses

Plural form of hypothesis, these are tentative explanations or predictions that can be tested through research and experimentation.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much values differ from the mean.

Modality

Modality in statistics refers to the number of peaks in the frequency distribution of a dataset.

Symmetry

A property where a shape or figure can be divided into parts that are exact reflections of each other on opposite sides of a line or plane.