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What twin and adoption studies can separate, and what heritability actually means.
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Identical twins raised in the same homes are more alike in risk taking than fraternal twins raised in the same homes. What is the best inference?
A twin study finds identical twins are no more alike in music preference than fraternal twins. What conclusion fits that pattern?
Why do psychologists compare identical and fraternal twins raised in similar family environments?
Identical twins separated in infancy later show similar anxiety levels. What does this result most directly support?
Fraternal twins are about as similar as ordinary siblings in a trait, while identical twins are much more similar. What does the contrast suggest?
Adopted children resemble their biological parents more than their adoptive parents in height. What does that pattern support?
In an adoption study, adoptees' political attitudes resemble their adoptive parents more than their biological parents. What is most supported?
What does an adoption study help separate that an ordinary family study often confounds?
Adoptees resemble biological parents in impulsivity but adoptive siblings in study habits. What is the best interpretation?
A study reports heritability of 0.60 for a trait in one population. What does 0.60 mean?
A student says, 'My intelligence is 70% inherited because its heritability is 0.70.' What is the error?
In a population where nutrition varies greatly, the heritability of height is lower than in a population with similar nutrition for everyone. Why?
If a trait has high heritability in one population, what can still be true?
A teen with a family history of depression develops symptoms after prolonged stress, while a sibling with less stress does not. What principle fits?
Two children have similar genetic risk for reading difficulty, but only the child with little reading support struggles. What does this show?
A child with a temperament toward high activity seeks sports and active friends, which then increase activity even more. What concept is illustrated?
A stress-related disorder appears most often in people who have both a genetic vulnerability and repeated trauma exposure. What account is strongest?
How would an evolutionary psychologist explain a widespread quick fear response to snakes?
Why might humans tend to prefer sweet and fatty foods, from an evolutionary perspective?
A behavior appears in many cultures and may have improved survival or reproduction for ancestors. What kind of explanation is being used?
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