An Experimenter Randomly Assigns Half of a Group of Infants

question 136

Multiple Choice

An experimenter randomly assigns half of a group of infants to a special enriched day care program. Within six months the infants in the enriched program have higher IQs. Two years later the difference between the two groups has declined, but the enriched group is still higher in IQ. This pattern would illustrate which of Aslin's five types of environmental influence?

• A) attunement
• B) maintenance
• C) facilitation
• D) induction
• E) maturation

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