Child Psychology: A Contemporary Viewpoint, First Canadian Edition

E. Mavis Hetherington, University of Virginia
Ross D. Parke, University of California
Mark Schmuckler, University of Toronto at Scarborough

Heredity and the Environment

Key Persons Quiz

Match the key people to their descriptions.


1				A behavioural geneticist who believes that parental genotypes influence the environments that they provide for their offspring.


2				A behavioural geneticist who researches whether shared environments account for the variation in children's interests and personality.


3				Two researchers who identified the basic temperaments as the easy child, the difficult child, and the slow-to-warm-up child.


4				A British psychiatrist who believes that it is possible to distinguish the relative contribution of genes versus environment for any given trait or ability.


5				A researcher from the University of Alberta who believes that the relative contribution of genes and environment to behaviour cannot be separated.


6				A researcher who contributed to the development of the Infant Behaviour Questionnaire.

Answer choices for questions 1 through 6

A)	Robert Plomin
B)	Sandra Scarr
C)	Alexander Chess and Stella Thomas
D)	Sir Michael Rutter
E)	Douglas Wahlsten
F)	M.K. Rothbart

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