Studies Have Shown That

question 174

Multiple Choice

Studies have shown that:

• A) The intelligence of adopted children is more highly correlated with their biologically unrelated parents than their birth parents.
• B) for adults, heritability estimates average around .15 to .20.
• C) the scores of fraternal twins reared together are more highly correlated than the scores of identical twins reared apart.
• D) as adopted children grow into adulthood, the correlation between their IQ scores and those of their biologically unrelated family members diminishes to zero.

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