Sally is participating in an adoption study. Sally was adopted when she was seven months old. Her biological family could be characterized as Caucasian, middle-class, from an urban setting in the northeastern United States
She was placed with an adoptive family that could be characterized as being Caucasian, middle-class, from an urban setting in the northeastern United States. Sally's adoption presents what potential problem for the researchers of the adoption study?
A) heritability
B) probabilistic epigenesis
C) selective placement
D) equal environments
C) selective placement Sally has been placed with an adoptive family that was specifically chosen to be similar to her biological family. This makes it difficult to separate the influences of genes versus environment on her development.
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