With increasing age, adopted children's intelligence test scores become ________ correlated with their adoptive parents' scores and ________ correlated with their biological parent's scores.
a. more positively; more negatively
b. less positively; less positively
c. more negatively; less positively
d. less positively; more positively
e. more positively; more positively
Answer: d. less positively; more positively
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