The Finding That Children Born to a Parent with Schizophrenia

question 32

Multiple Choice

The finding that children born to a parent with schizophrenia who are adopted as infants by parents without schizophrenia are more likely than other children to develop schizophrenia themselves is evidence of the:

• A) influence of nature.
• B) influence of nurture.
• C) interaction of nature and nurture.
• D) random variability in the population.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

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

Significance Level

The threshold used in statistics to determine the probability of rejecting a null hypothesis when it is true.

Sample Mean

The average of a set of observations or data points, calculated by summing them all up and dividing by the number of observations.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can be assigned to a statistical distribution, often determining the shape of the distribution.