In Adoption Studies

question 20

Multiple Choice

In adoption studies

• A) the results may be biased because biological and adoptive parents may be similar.
• B) adoptive parents are assumed to provide genetic influence.
• C) biological parents are assumed to provide environmental influence.
• D) the greater similarity of adoptees to biological than to adoptive parents on a trait would indicate that the trait is influenced by the environment.

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