Consider a Trait or Characteristic of Yours About Which You

Essay

Consider a trait or characteristic of yours about which you are particularly unhappy or that you are ashamed to possess. Using the relations that are identified in the model of hereditary and environmental influence, discuss how you may have come to possess this trait or characteristic. Discuss, specifically, (a) How might your parents' genotype have directly influenced your genotype? (b) How might your parents' phenotype have influenced your environment? (c) How might your own phenotype have evoked your parents' behaviour toward you? (d) How did you actively select your own environment?