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Level 5 Diploma in Psychology

Heredity vs environment: twin (Minnesota), adoption and family studies

PSY502 · Individual Differences: Intelligence, Personality and Criminology — Week 3 of 16

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This week’s topics

Heredity vs environment: twin (Minnesota), adoption and family studies

  1. Heredity vs environment: twin (Minnesota), adoption and family studies
  2. Gene–environment interaction
  3. The race and IQ debate

What you will be able to do

  • 1.3 Evaluate how hereditary and environmental influences contribute to explaining intelligence.

Activity

Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: evaluate how hereditary and environmental influences contribute to explaining intelligence.

Study materials

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Course plan
  • Week 1: Defining intelligence
  • Week 2: Intelligence testing: Stanford-Binet, Wechsler, Army Alpha …
  • Week 3: Heredity vs environment: twin (Minnesota), adoption and fam…
  • Week 4: Classifying personality theories: nomothetic vs idiographic
  • Week 5: Psychometric approaches: Eysenck and Cattell, the Big Five
  • Week 6: Applying criminological psychology: age, gender and offendi…
  • Week 7: Theories of criminal behaviour: personality and criminality…
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Offender profiling and investigative psychology: Canter’s a…
  • Week 10: Situational crime prevention, punitive prison regimes and t…
  • Week 11: Practical and ethical problems in profiling offenders; cour…
  • Week 12: Assessment workshop: drafting against the assessment criter…
  • Week 13: Supervised completion and submission
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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