HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION Look at your own life. Look at your sibling

HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION Look at your own life. Look at your siblings or even the kid next door, maybe even a cousin. If you can reference a person in your age group. You may have the same advantages or disadvantages. You may different decisions in life, or perhaps one life altering thing happened to one of you that would affect the way you approached life from thereon. Compare and contrast. Answer these questions using some of the terms from the book: How similar are you to your family members (parent, sibling or child). Were you raised in the same house (full or part time)? What are the similar traits you share? Is is heredity or environment? If you are making a comparison to your child, do you live together full or part time? IE: Forest Gump never met his son until his son was like 7 years old yet they had the same physical mannerisms. Heredity and environment are responsible for producing qualities such as the personality of a human being. Behavior genetics determines the heredity and the environment interaction make individual differences in development. Psychologists agree that development is shaped by the interaction of heredity and the environment. Three – 5 solid PARAGRAPHS!