Psychology 3442F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Michael Gove, Twin Study, Heritability

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3442F/G
• Professor: Emily Ansari

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You can assume the shared environment to be 1 for twins (they share the same environment in the womb and when they are growing up) Shakeshaft strong genetic influence on a uk nationwide test of educational. When there is a compulsory educational system that is highly structured, it makes the shared environment more homogenous (any variability left over is likely to be explained by genetic effects) The education system gives everyone an equal opportunity from an. Heritability tells you how much of the variance is explained by environmental perspective certain factors. Because the education system in the u. s. is funded by local governments, the schools have more freedom in the way that they implement their system. We need to change the environment as a function of the individual, not system-wide: it"s important to remember that we can"t take these results and generalize them to other educational systems because they will differ across different systems/schools/classrooms.