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Mimi

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The hypothesis that there is a genetic component to some attitudes would be supported by all but which finding?
 
  a. Attitudes of identical twins are more similar than those of fraternal twins.
  b. Adults who shared certain physiological characteristics also hold common political beliefs.
  c. When asked about attitudes for which there seems to be a genetic predisposition, research participants arequicker to respond to questions and less likely to alter their views toward social norms.
 d. The human genome project has identified specific genes that are responsible for the ability to hold positive ornegative attitudes.

Question 2

Research on the attitudes of twins suggests
 
  a. that genetics are not useful in predicting the attitudes different people will hold.
  b. the attitudes of identical twins are more similar than the attitudes of fraternal twins.
  c. the attitudes of twins who are reared apart from one another are more dissimilar than the attitudes of twinsraised together in the same household.
 d. that the first-born twin is likely to be more conservative than the second-born twin, even when their births areonly separated by minutes.



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

b



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