Given What We Know About the Effects of Genes and the Environment

question 21

Multiple Choice

Given what we know about the effects of genes and the environment, which of the following pairs of children would be expected to be most similar in terms of overall personality, psychological disorders, and intelligence?

• A)biological siblings, each adopted immediately after birth, one raised in Vancouver and the other raised in Toronto
• B)dizygotic twins, one raised in a wealthy family living in a modern city and the other raised in poverty in a developing nation
• C)biological siblings raised in the same home
• D)adopted children from different biological families raised in the same home

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Definitions:

Individual's Thoughts

The personal cognitive processes or considerations of a person.

Dimensions of Personality

Fundamental attributes that structure an individual's personality, often described in models like the Big Five: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.

Phallic Stage

A phase in Freudian psychosexual development where a child’s focus of libido is on the genital area, marking it as a critical stage in the formation of sexual identity.

Marked Attachment

Marked attachment refers to a strong emotional bond, typically between a child and a caregiver, characterized by the child's tendency to seek proximity to the caregiver for security and comfort.