HDFS 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Genotype
9 Sep 2016
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Theory of genotype environment effect: based on our genotype, we create our own environments, passive, evocative and active. Parents provide both genes and environment for their children. One set of parents provided the adolescents genes, but a different set of parents provided the environment: when adolescents are more similar to their biological parents, the genes play a strong role. Compared to when the adolescents are more similar to their adoptive parents, the environment plays a stronger role. Crucial addition of the assumption that charactersitics such as reading ability, athletic ability and sociability are at least partly based on genetics. When people seek out environments that correspond t their genotypic characteristics. People are drawn to environments that match their inherited abilities: passive genotypes are more for adolescents when parents control the environment which a child lives in, when they grow up, active genotype becomes more strong.
