Adoption studies - Research methods

Question 1

What are adoption studies?

Answer 1

Studies where adopted children are compared with their biological parent + an adoptive relative (parent or sibling)

Question 2

What do adoption studies focus on?

Answer 2

The impact of nurture in children who are raised by non-biological parents

Question 3

How can traits be produced by nurture?

Answer 3

If child grows up to share adoptive parent’s traits

Question 4

What does it mean if genetically related relatives show higher degrees of concordance for a condition than adoptive relatives?

Answer 4

Suggests that genetic factors are important in causation (nature)

Question 5

What is the heritability rate?

Answer 5

Calculated to determine degree to which behavioural trait has been oassed down through generations (via genetics)