Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

Question

1. Criminality tends to cluster in certain families, as the first wave of nature versus nurture studies showed. However, this tendency cannot be shown to be a product of heredity or genetics.
2. The family studies showed that criminality in the mother (or head female caretaker) had a much stronger influence on future criminality of the children than did the father’s criminality.
3. Concordance is a count based on whether two people (or a twin pair) share a certain trait (or lack of a certain trait); for our purposes, the trait is criminal offending.
4. The highest predictability for future criminality by far was for adopted youths whose biological parents and adoptive parents were not convicted criminals.
5. Selective placement is when adoptees are placed with their biological families so they are taken out of the home.

Answer 1

1. True
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. False