Scarr and Weinberg's Research on Social Class and IQ Showed

question 104

Multiple Choice

Scarr and Weinberg's research on social class and IQ showed that

• A)children from disadvantaged homes could raise their IQs if adopted into middle-class homes with intelligent adoptive parents.
• B)children from disadvantaged homes continue to show significant deficits in IQ even after being adopted into middle-class homes with intelligent adoptive parents.
• C)children from poor economic conditions do not differ significantly in IQ from children from average or above average economic conditions.
• D)improving the economic conditions of the home has no significant impact on children's IQs because IQ is so strongly affected by genes.

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