TESTING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
STUDYING GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON INTELLIGENCE
Question
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The incidence of high blood pressure varies by race
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The races arose in different continents
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Behavior traits are associated with race
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People of varying ancestry may categorize themselves in the same race as one another
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Skin cancer rates vary by race
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following provides the best evidence that race is more of a social construct than a biological category? People of varying ancestry may categorize themselves in the same race.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which of the following is true of the biological perspective on race? It has led to ordering races from most primitive to most advanced.
Detailed explanation-3: -"Race” is not real scientifically because it is a social construct by changing over time and across different concepts. It is a social construction because it is a set of stories we tell ourselves in order to make sense of the world and eventually we believe in it and act upon it.
Detailed explanation-4: -Which of these would provide the strongest evidence that a test is biased against some group? The average score for this group is lower than that for some other group. People in this group do better on other tasks than these test scores predict.