Exam 10: Thinking and Language

With increasing age, adopted children's verbal ability scores become ________ positively correlated with their adoptive parents' scores and ________ positively correlated with their biological parent's scores.

To say that the heritability of a trait is approximately 50 percent means

Although Nicole scored well above average on an academic aptitude test, she frequently loses her temper and needlessly antagonizes even her best friends. Her behavior best illustrates a low level of

Studies of adopted children and their biological and adoptive families demonstrate that with age, genetic influences on intelligence

Schooling ________ children's intelligence test performance. Children's intelligence ________ their later adult income.

Assessing current competence is to ________ tests as predicting future performance is to ________ tests.

The correlation is likely to be lowest between the

Intelligence test scores are LEAST similar for

Which of the following persons best illustrates Sternberg's concept of practical intelligence?