If We Compare the Correlation Between Adopted Children's Intelligence Scores

question 173

Multiple Choice

If we compare the correlation between adopted children's intelligence scores and those of their biological and adoptive mothers, we find that __________.

• A) in both childhood and adolescence, children's intelligence scores are more highly correlated with those of their biological mothers than with those of their adoptive mothers
• B) in both childhood and adolescence, children's intelligence scores are more highly correlated with those of their adoptive mothers than with those of their biological mothers
• C) in childhood, children's intelligence scores are more highly correlated with those of their biological mothers, while in adolescence children's intelligence scores are more highly correlated with those of their adoptive mothers
• D) in childhood, children's intelligence scores are more highly correlated with those of their biological mothers, while in adolescence, their scores are equally correlated with those of their biological and adoptive mothers

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