Author Question: The critical finding of the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart (Bouchard, 1994; Bouchard, Lykken, ... (Read 86 times)

mmm · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

The critical finding of the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart (Bouchard, 1994; Bouchard, Lykken, McGue, Segal & Tellegen, 1990) was that identical twins raised apart and together were ____.

a. very similar to one another on nonreligious social attitudes, but quite far apart on occupational interests
b. very similar to one another, whether the overall positive correlation for a particular characteristic was strong or weak
c. very different from each other, depending on the families within which they were raised
d. generally similar to each other on physical characteristics, but not on social characteristics

Question 2

Most efforts to study the effects of genetics on personality use ____.

a. factor analysis
b. qualitative methods
c. the twin study method
d. the study of siblings