What Have Brain Studies Shown About the Relationship Between Poverty

question 53

Multiple Choice

What have brain studies shown about the relationship between poverty and children's cognitive development?

• A) Poverty causes about a 10% reduction in brain volume.
• B) Brain volume reductions of those in poverty were greatest in the problem-solving and memory areas of the brains.
• C) Though there were brain volume reductions in those with poverty, they did not confer a behavioral disadvantage in IQ.
• D) Brain volume reductions in those with poverty were associated with deficits in both IQ and academic achievement.

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