A Large Adoption Study Discussed in Your Textbook Found That

question 92

Multiple Choice

A large adoption study discussed in your textbook found that anti-social behaviour in adopted males:

• A) is strongly related to their same-sex siblings' behaviour
• B) is more closely related to the anti-social behaviours of their adoptive fathers than their biological fathers
• C) is more closely related to the anti-social behaviour of their biological fathers than their adoptive fathers
• D) is related to cognitive and motivational factors and mostly unrelated to genetic factors

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Definitions:

Object Permanence

The concept that objects do not cease to exist merely because they are not currently perceived through sight, sound, or other sensory inputs.

Conservation

In cognitive development, the understanding that certain properties of objects remain the same despite changes in the object's outward appearance.

Stranger Anxiety

A form of distress that children experience when exposed to people they do not know, typically apparent from about 6 to 12 months of age.

Egocentrism

Egocentrism refers to the cognitive inability to understand or assume any perspective other than one's own.