The Fact That Children with Genes for Average Intelligence Can

question 106

Multiple Choice

The fact that children with genes for average intelligence can actually develop either below-average, average, or above-average intelligence depending on their experiences best illustrates which of the following themes of development?

• A) Early development is related to later development, but not perfectly.
• B) Development is always jointly influenced by heredity and environment.
• C) Children help determine their own environment.
• D) Development in different domains is connected.

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Definitions:

Homothetic Preferences

Consumer preferences that are consistent or proportionate across different scales or levels of consumption, indicating a straight line through the origin in a utility function graph.

Quasilinear Preferences

Preferences where utility is a linear function of one good, making the consumer's marginal rate of substitution between goods independent of the level of consumption of that good.

Convex Preferences

Consumer preferences where the consumer prefers averages or mixes of goods to extremes, represented graphically by convex indifference curves.

Monotonic Transformation

A monotonic transformation involves a function that either entirely increases or decreases, preserving the order of the original function’s elements.