The Minnesota Study of Twins Raised Apart Found Support for Which

question 76

Multiple Choice

The Minnesota Study of Twins Raised Apart found support for which of the following conclusions?​ 

• A)Identical twins are very similar to each other on a number of traits, regardless of whether the correlation for any particular trait was high or low. 
• B)Identical twins raised together are very similar to each other on a number of traits, but identical twins raised apart are not. 
• C)Identical twins are very similar on traits that are highly correlated, like fingerprint ridges, but not similar to each other on traits that are not highly correlated, like nonreligious social attitudes. 
• D)Identical twins are no more similar to each other on highly correlated traits than fraternal twins and non-twin siblings.

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Definitions:

Memory for single items

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