In the Context of the Assumption of Representativeness,adoption Studies Assume

question 78

Multiple Choice

In the context of the assumption of representativeness,adoption studies assume that:

• A)placing adopted children with adoptive parents who are similar to their birth parents helps in a better understanding of heritable traits.
• B)adopted children,their birth parents,and their adoptive parents are typical of the general population.
• C)the environments experienced by adopted identical twins are more similar to each other than are the environments experienced by adopted fraternal twins.
• D)a positive correlation between adopted children and their adoptive parents provides evidence for heritability for a personality trait.