Regarding various ethnic groups and testing, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. As a group, African Americans are more likely than European Americans to live in environments that are physically, educationally, and intellectually impoverished.
b. Before the election of Barack Obama, African-American students performed more poorly than European-American students on a 20-item test, while during the election, African-American students performed just as well as their European-American counterparts.
c. Most psychologists have concluded that there is significant scientific evidence that group differences in average IQ are based on genetics.
d. One study found that placing poor African-American children into European-American adoptive families increased the children's IQs by an average of 13 points.
C
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c. is not considered important in the area of environmental psychology. d. can be safely ignored when no identifying information about the participants is recorded.
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a. a justice orientation. b. a care orientation. c. people who have attained formal operations. d. a heteronomous orientation
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