Professor Holden Gives a Psychology Exam on the Origins of Intelligence

Multiple Choice

Professor Holden gives a psychology exam on the origins of intelligence. She gives a short answer question based on the IQ scores of a parent-child pair. In order to answer the question correctly, her students need to remember that __________

A) a parent's high IQ does not necessarily cause a child to have a high IQ.
B) given these variables, the correlation will be positive.
C) given these variables, the correlation will be negative.
D) given these variables, the correlation will be uncorrelated.