THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
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Question
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Which of the following would provide the strongest evidence for the idea that intelligence is highly heritable?
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The IQ scores of parents are positively correlated with the scores of their children
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Monozygotic twins separated at birth have extremely similar IQ scores
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Dizgotic twins score more similarly on IQ tests than do other sibilings
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Different ethnic groups have different average IQ scores
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In this investigation, researchers found that identical twins raised together and identical twins raised apart exhibit a higher correlation between their IQ scores than siblings or fraternal twins raised together (Bouchard, Lykken, McGue, Segal, & Tellegen, 1990).
Detailed explanation-2: -Empirical evidence suggests that especially parental education, parental income, and maternal IQ are important predictors of intelligence. Parental education together with maternal IQ and the child’s sex were found to account for 24% of the variance in IQ at age 5 [6].
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