Terry and Ahmad Plan to Adopt 3-Year-Old Oleg,who Has Been

question 129

Multiple Choice

Terry and Ahmad plan to adopt 3-year-old Oleg,who has been living in an orphanage since birth.Terry and Ahmad should know that early,prolonged institutionalization __________.

• A) fosters resilience in later childhood and adolescence
• B) increases the brain's capacity to manage stress
• C) leads to a decrease in size and activity in the cerebral cortex
• D) has little impact on intellectual development

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Definitions:

Increasing Scatter

A trend where data points spread out over a larger range, indicating higher variability in the data set.

Re-express

A statistical technique used to transform data in order to make its distribution more closely approximate the normal distribution, improving the interpretability or analysis.

Linear Relationship

A relationship between two variables where the change in one variable is directly proportional to the change in another variable.

Chocolate Consumed

The amount of chocolate intake by an individual or group over a specified period.