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a. List three examples of things that parents can do to help improve the intelligence of their children. b. What have kinship and adoptee studies revealed about the genetic role in intelligence? c. How might attending cultural events help someone who is age 70 or older maintain a high level of intellectual functioning?

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a. Parents can provide toys that are both fun and educational, they can be more involved in their children's activities and they can encourage their children to be independent. b. They have revealed evidence of heredity's role in intelligence. More precisely, the intelligence test scores of identical twins are more similar than those of any other group of people and the intelligence test scores of adopted children are more like those of their biological parents than those of their adoptive parents. c. Attending cultural events keeps them both mentally and physically active as well as develops their crystallized intelligence.

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