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A 10-Year-Old Child Who Scored Like an Average 8-Year-Old on an Intelligence

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A 10-year-old child who scored like an average 8-year-old on an intelligence test would have an IQ of 80.


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Sensation Seeking

Sensation seeking is a personality trait characterized by a strong desire for novel and intense experiences, often involving risk-taking behaviors.

Experiment

A research method involving the manipulation of one or more independent variables to determine their effect on one or more dependent variables, while controlling other potentially confounding factors.

Drugs

Substances that alter physiological function, mood, consciousness, or behavior; can be legal (prescription, over-the-counter) or illegal.

Sensation-Seeking Scores

Numerical values obtained from assessments that measure an individual's propensity to seek varied, novel, complex, and intense sensations and experiences.

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