PSY 101 Lecture 17: PSY lec 1_17
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Kids tend to be more similar to their biological parents and not their adoptive parents, according to correlation between iqs. Environment doesn"t seem to play a huge role, but it does play a role. Adoptive parents still influence their children when it comes to attitude, values, manners, religion, etc. You"re in charge of picking an outgoing director, but you can only choose based off of their siblings You would choose the director based off having an outgoing identical twin. Which scenario is most likely according to adoption studies . An adopted brother and sister reared together share same political and religious beliefs. Identical twins share crazy similarities, we should be cautious about this though because . Any two strangers are likely to share many coincidental similarities (spectacular explanation fallacy). Genes aren"t controlling everything, environmental impact is there and does matter. Think about calluses, you have to work to develop them.
