首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
In The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are(2004), Dr. Kevin Leman notes that 21 of the first 23 Americans in space wer
In The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are(2004), Dr. Kevin Leman notes that 21 of the first 23 Americans in space wer
admin
2013-11-29
36
问题
In The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are(2004), Dr. Kevin Leman notes that 21 of the first 23 Americans in space were first-born males or dnly children. More than half of United States presidents have been first-borns or first-born boys. It’s a pretty significant finding historically, because families used to be bigger than they are today. "
In addition to being high achievers, older children also generally have higher IQs (智商) than younger ones. Researchers have rioted that the more kids a family has, the lower each child’s individual IQ tends to be. They give a few reasons for this.
Parents only have so much time, attention, and money. The more kids they have, the more these things are divided. First-borns initially get the entire parental-time pie. What’smore, the ratio of grown-ups to kids decreases with each new baby.
So the younger ones are surrounded by more children’s language on average than the older kids.
Some researchers think parental attention is the key to personality birth-order differences. In his book Bom to Rebel, psychologist Frank Sulloway says competition for Mom and Dad’s attention is the thing that really shapes our personalities and, in fact has shaped history. He argues that we adapt our personalities as part of our strategy to seek favor from Mom and Dad. Younger siblings (兄弟姐妹) tend to become rebels. Sulloway studied political activists and found that later-born activists were more radical than their firstborn peers.
The conclusion of his book is that sibling competition for parental attention can affect society as a whole in times of revolution. Thomas Jefferson, Karl Marx, and Fidel Castro were all younger siblings, for example.
As compelling as this all is, it’s also something we should probably take with caution, there are other things that happen to us in life besides the addition of siblings to our families. A parent can die; a hurricane can leave us homeless; we can catch a life — threatening disease. Any one of these things will probably have more of an effect on our personalities than the presence of siblings.
A 2002 study bore this out After interviewing 535 undergraduates, researchers concluded that personality differences related to birth order were "
folklore
" , although IQ and achievement differences were widely supported by research.
What is the meaning of" folklore "in the last paragraph?
选项
A、Traditional customs and beliefs.
B、Verified hypotheses.
C、Widely held unsupported notions.
D、Tales of sayings preserved orally.
答案
C
解析
从文中可知,“folklore”并不是其原来的本意“民俗学,民间风俗,民间传说”,而是指没有经过证实的观点。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/hjhO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Forlaymenethnologyisprobablythemostinterestingofthebiologicalsciencesfortheveryreasonthatitconcernsanimalsin
Oneofthemajordifferencesbetweenmanandhisclosestlivingrelativeis,ofcourse,thatthechimpanzeehasnotdevelopedth
Oneofthemajordifferencesbetweenmanandhisclosestlivingrelativeis,ofcourse,thatthechimpanzeehasnotdevelopedth
ThehistoryofAfrican—Americansduringthepast4-00yearsistraditionallynarrated【1】anongoingstruggleagainst【2】andindiff
Forlaymenethnologyisthemostinterestingofthebiologicalsciencesfortheveryreasonthatitconcernsanimalsintheirno
AndresearcherssaythatlikethoseliteraryromanticsRomeoandJuliet,theymaybeblindtotheconsequencesoftheirquestsf
AndresearcherssaythatlikethoseliteraryromanticsRomeoandJuliet,theymaybeblindtotheconsequencesoftheirquestsf
AndresearcherssaythatlikethoseliteraryromanticsRomeoandJuliet,theymaybeblindtotheconsequencesoftheirquestsf
Fromtheperspectiveofthepoor,itseemsobviousthatthebenefitswouldoutweighthecosts.Thebenefitstopoorpeopleofno
随机试题
铸造生产用于捣打炉衬和补炉用的镁砂,其颗粒要求为0~120mm,粒径大于120mm的颗粒含量小于或等于()。
麻黄碱:色甘酸钠:
妊娠期间出现腰酸、腹痛、小腹下坠者为
A.固位体B.桥体C.固定连接体D.活动连接体E.小连接体恢复缺失牙形态和功能的是
具有维持体温相对恒定的气
流行性乙型脑炎呈散发性分布的原因是
案情:丙系某国有企业高级管理,负责对外贸易合作项目。甲向乙谎称丙欠自己20万元,请乙替自己索要,如果成功便支付乙5万元的酬金。(事实一)乙同意,以商人的身份将丙骗到甲事先布置好的宾馆后联合甲将丙扣留,并由乙看管。(事实二)甲与乙对丙实施
Whyaremobilessopopular?Becausepeoplelovetotalktoeachother.Anditiseasierwithamobilephone.IncountrieslikeR
设集合A={x||x-a|<1,x∈R},B={x||x-b|<2,x∈R},则AB的充分必要条件是()
Accordingtothepassage,goodteachershould______intheUnitedStates.Whenaprogramstarts,studentsshouldfirst______.
最新回复
(
0
)