How are sleep patterns related to the environment the newborn is raised in?

What will be an ideal response?


How long infants sleep and where they sleep seems to very culturally dependent. Infants who are breast-fed seem to feed around the clock. They typically sleep with their mothers because this makes it easier to feed them. Infants who are kept in their own room sleep for longer stretches at a time. Infants who are carried on their mother's back all day seem to sleep throughout the day in shorter naps and rarely sleep longer than 3 hours at a time.

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Dr. Banta conducts an adoption study to estimate the heritability of intelligence. If intelligence is primarily influenced by the environment, he will find that

a. adopted children's intelligence level is more similar to that of their biological parents than that of their adoptive parents. b. adopted children's intelligence level is more similar to that of their adoptive parents than that of their biological parents. c. adopted children's intelligence level is unrelated to that of either their biological or adoptive parents. d. he cannot determine heritability with an adoption study, therefore he will need to do a twin study.

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