Research on Early Intervention to Increase IQ Scores in Children

question 17

Multiple Choice

Research on early intervention to increase IQ scores in children have found all of the following to be true EXCEPT:

• A) high-quality child-care-based interventions are associated with increases in children's intelligence.
• B) interventions are most successful with poor children.
• C) interventions are less successful with children whose parents have little education.
• D) programs that continue into middle and late childhood have the best long-term results.

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