The text describes orphanages in Romania in which all of the infants had been seriously deprived. The children were later adopted and recovered dramatically in physical development. It was found that the recovery in cognitive development .

Was dependent on the age in which the children were adopted

Explanation:

cognitive development is totally dependent on age in which children were adopted, as cognitive development refer to development of thinking , learning skills, learning language. Moreover, cognitive development is take place when baby or child is growing in early ages of life like to build memory, information processing , intellectual reasoning and thinking. So in this case if child is older than that specific age of cognitive development. there is difficult to recover cognitive development/