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saliriagwu

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You want to assess the personality of family members, looking for similarities and differences. How would a twin study help you with your research?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Research suggests that stress
 
  A) is only unhealthy for Type A individuals.
  B) very rarely occurs in most people's lives.
  C) is psychologically disturbing but has no impact on health.
  D) can contribute to triggering a heart attack.
  E) does not affect health very much.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 21, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: A twin study examines sets of twins raised apart and sets raised together in an effort to determine which characteristics of each person were caused by genetics and which by environment. Since identical twins share 100 of the same genetic material, they are biologically very similar. Therefore, if personality variation is due more to genetics, identical twins raised apart should be similar their personalities.

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saliriagwu

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Reply 2 on: Jun 21, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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Wow, this really help

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