Which One of the Following Findings Is the Best Evidence

question 79

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following findings is the best evidence that environment plays an important role in determining intelligence?

• A) Identical twins raised by different families from birth have more similar IQs than fraternal twins raised together.
• B) Nontwin siblings raised together have more similar IQs than nontwin siblings raised apart.
• C) Children have IQs that are more similar to the IQs of their parents than to the IQs of their siblings.
• D) Children adopted from different biological parents but raised by the same adoptive parents have small IQ correlations as adults.

Recognize the development and significance of symbolic thought and pretend play in cognitive development.

Explain the concept of object permanence and its development within the sensorimotor stage.

Describe the transition from sensorimotor to preoperational thought processes.

Understand the core knowledge approach and its implications for infant cognitive abilities.

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Definitions:

Bootstrap Distribution

A technique in statistics for estimating the distribution of a statistic by resampling with replacement from the original sample.

Normal

In statistics, this describes a distribution that is symmetric around the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Resamples

In statistics, resampling is a method that involves drawing repeated samples from the original data samples.

Means

The average values obtained by dividing the sum of all observations by the number of observations.