If a child was adopted as an infant and never had contact with her or his biological parents, the child would likely develop an IQ that __________
a) more closely resembled the adoptive parents' IQ.
b) more closely resembled the IQ of the biological siblings in the adoptive family.
c) more closely resembled the biological parents' IQ.
d) falls somewhere between that of the biological and adoptive parents.
c Explanation: The results of adoption studies suggests that even in such cases, the child's
IQ will correlate more strongly with that of the biological parents then with that of the adopted parents.
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