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Heritability coefficient
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Percentage of the variance of a trait that is controlled by genetic factors
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Personality trait
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A pattern of behaviour relevant to more than one situation
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What are the heritability coefficients for monozygotic (MZ) twin and dizygotic (DZ) twins and non-twin studys
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MZ- .60DZ- .40non twins- .20
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Association method
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Determine whether differences in traits are correlated with differences in a particular gene e.g. homosexuality
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Evolutionary personality psychology
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Attempts to explain how patterns of behaviour that characterize all humans originated in the survival value of these characteristics
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Mate selection
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What one looks for in the opposite sex
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Mating strategies
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How one handles heterosexual relationships
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Biological reductionism
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Everything about the mind can be reduced to biology
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