One Adoption Study Focusing on Behaviours Related to Anti-Social Personality

question 297

Multiple Choice

One adoption study focusing on behaviours related to anti-social personality disorder found the highest rates of criminal behaviour in sons when _______________ had criminal records.

• A)only their adoptive fathers
• B)only their biological fathers
• C)only their biological mothers
• D)both their biological and adoptive fathers

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Results and data obtained through observation and experimentation, forming the basis for knowledge and scientific conclusions.

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The act of carefully watching and examining phenomena as they occur naturally without intervening or altering conditions.

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Unspoken Assumptions

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