A Woman Smokes During Pregnancy and Has a Baby with Learning

question 192

Multiple Choice

A woman smokes during pregnancy and has a baby with learning problems. Which assumption would a developmentalist MOST likely make?

• A) The problem may or may not be due to smoking as this woman could have put her baby's health at risk in other ways.
• B) Smoking definitely caused these problems.
• C) An experiment can easily be done to show if smoking was the cause of this baby's difficulties.
• D) A correlational study will give answers as to whether smoking was the cause of this baby's learning problems.

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