Learning Objectives
Test Yourself by taking a moment to answer each of these Learning Objective Questions (repeated here from within the module). Research suggests that trying to answer these questions on your own will improve your long-
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Test yourself repeatedly throughout your studies. This will not only help you figure out what you know and don’t know; the testing itself will help you learn and remember the information more effectively thanks to the testing effect.
1. The strongest support for heredity's influence on intelligence is the finding that
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2. To say that the heritability of intelligence is about 50 percent means that 50 percent of
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3. The environmental influence that has the clearest, most profound effect on intellectual development is
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