Psychology 1000- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 196 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Study guide lecture: what psychologists do & pioneers of psycholo. Sir cyril burt large scale study of twins reared apart believed intelligence was highly heritable with h2 approaching 1. 0 he made up all the data. Bouchard"s twin studies looks at correlation coefficients for twins who were raised apart. Person the % of variance for intelligence that can be acounted for genetics. 0. 87 approximate h2 of intelligence - 0. 72 not saying that iq is genetically determined of the observed variability in measured iq, we can attribute 72% to genetic factors. Identical twins who thought they were identical 0. 66. Identical twins who thought they were fraternal 0. 77. Fraternal twins who thought they were fraternal 0. 81. Fraternal twins who thought they were identical 0. 78. 0. 77 (the smaller the number, the less difference between the two) even if you"re genetically the same but you"re told you"re fraternal, you"re going to be less similar incorrect belief of monozygosity (identical) leads to greater similarity.