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Until recently experts believed that environment, not geneti
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Updated on: 25 Jan 2021, 10:33
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Until recently experts believed that environment, not genetics, largely determines human personality. A new study, however, has shown that there is more similarity in personality between identical twins raised together than between nonidentical twins raised together. The study concluded that genetics, therefore, does play an important role in determining personality.
Which of the following, if found to be true, would cast the most doubt on the study's conclusion?
(A) Identical twins raised separately in different adoptive families are usually more similar in personality than are nonidentical twins raised separately in different adoptive families. (B) No matter how twins behave, parents treat identical twins in ways that tend to elicit similar personality traits but do not treat 'non-identical twins in such ways. (C) Parents of both identical and non-identical twins have long claimed that their children, from early infanthood, had definite and well-established personality traits. (D) Birth parents and their identical twin children tend to become more similar to each other in personality over time, but adoptive parents and their identical twin children do not. (E) Neither identical nor nonidentical twins are likely to display drastic changes in their individual personalities as they grow up.
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19 Oct 2019, 22:54
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The answer would be B. Here, in order to weaken the statement we need to look for the option which says that environment is responsible for the twins' personality and not genetics. All the other options suggest it is genetics, and thus support the argument. Hence, B would be the right answer.
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19 Oct 2019, 22:56
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huda wrote:
whats the difference between B and D?
D talks about the birth and the adoptive parents. However the question does not differentiate between the two, instead it says about the parents who raise. Hence, I think it does not matter whether the birth parents or adoptive parents are raising the children. We would thus look for option which suggests that twins' personality is a result of the environment and not genetics, hence B would be the right answer