PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Twin, Twin Study, Miranda Warning
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And then, if we want to intervene to reduce criminal beh, we"ll know what to do with which ppl. # of diff ways to exploit twinship to study genetic influences on behaviour. Compare identical and non-identical twins and see concordance rates for anti-social beh. 2) compare non-identical twins with siblings where the twins will have more similar enviro even though both types of siblings share 50% of genes. By utilizing the differences in genetic similarity and the extent of the shared enviro have relatively powerful tools to examine the effects of genes and early enviro in terms of criminal outcomes. Large samples and they primarily look at (sociological) demographics such as gender, age differences (young vs. old), diff socioeconomic status. A lot of sociology grew out of marxist theory and marx believed that social class determines of many outcomes and that"s why he didn"t like capitalism (b/c some classes were favoured over others and things were intrinsically unfair)
