ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lewis Terman, The Roots, Romanian Orphans
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The influences of heredity and environment environment and heredity play a part in shaping us. Our personalities and behaviour aren"t 100% based on our genes environment plays a factor as well. His daughter edith was the subject of the experiment. Stern played classical music and showed flash cards to edith since birth. By 5, edith could read the encyclopaedia britannica, and had a phd by 18. Twin studies twins are two people who are born in the same pregnancy the can be identical or fraternal. Psychologists study both identical and fraternal twins to understand the influence of environment and heredity the theory for identical twins was that any difference could be explained to environmental factors (since all twins have the same genes) Sir francis galton (charles darwin"s cousin) was determined to find out if intelligence runs in families. By applying darwin"s theory, he believed smart people should only mate with smart people, in order to produce smart offspring.
