Adoption Studies

question 23

Multiple Choice

Adoption studies:

• A)Lack the control of a real experiment because researchers cannot manipulate the adoption variable
• B)Have shown that rearing children apart from their biological parents has no effect on their intelligence
• C)Are worse than family studies in determining the heritability of a trait
• D)Completely control for environmental influences

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