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Imagine that you are a behaviour geneticist interested in the heritability of personality attributes. Describe how you would go about studying the genetic basis of personality
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A critical look at studying the genetic basis of personality Name: Arpun Kaur Bajwa Student #: 20096989 Course #: Psych 356, Personality Theory Assignment #1 Question #5 - Imagine that you are a behaviour geneticist interested in the heritability of personality attributes. Describe how you would go about studying the genetic basis of personality. What would your basic procedure be? What measurement issues would you face? How much would you draw on psychological theories of personality? Which theories? Date: January 25, 2006 Personality Theory - 1st Assignment - Question #5 Behavior geneticists assess the question of inheriting personality. Are our genes responsible for our creativity, aggressiveness or confidence? Examining personality traits through a genetic focus is an obscure task. Methods employed by behavior geneticists involve epidemiological studies, such as screening family pedigrees, conducting twin heritability studies, and adoption studies. In this essay, I will discuss the methodology behind twin studies as well as many issues that behavior geneticists...
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