Exploring heritability and how twin studies have informed this theory.

Unit 6 Assignment: This week you will complete a 2-3-page expository paper exploring heritability and how twin studies have informed this theory.

  • Define heritability using your own words and support it with a reliable source.
  • Explain the results of Cattell’s study on twins and siblings.

Using information and terminology from twin studies, show how the study of twins can help to determine how much personality is due to heredity and how much to the environment, using at least one example.