Assignment Details
Your assignment should be a 2-3-page expository essay, not including the title and reference pages, and should include the following elements:

Title page: Provide your name, title of the assignment, course and section number, and date.
Body: Answer all the questions in complete sentences and paragraphs.
Your responses should reflect professional writing standards, using proper tone and language. The writing and writing style should be correct and accurate, and reflect knowledge of skills and practice in the human service profession.
Reference page: Sources listed in APA format.
Include a minimum of two peer-reviewed sources from Purdue Global Library in addition to your textbook to support your paper
Use Arial or Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced and left aligned.
Use standard 1″ margins on all sides.
Use APA formatting and citation style
Write a 2-3-page expository paper exploring heritability and how twin studies have informed this theory.

 

Assignment Direction
Unit 6 Assignment: This week you will complete a 2-3-page expository paper exploring heritability and how twin studies have informed this theory.

1. Define heritability using your own words and support it with a reliable source.
2. Explain the results of Cattell’s study on twins and siblings.
3. Using information and terminology from twin studies, show how the study of twins can help to determine how much personality is due to heredity and how much to the environment, using at least one example.
Notes: Write a 2-3-page expository paper exploring heritability and how twin studies have informed this theory