1. Liam Moore and Riley DeWaters

2.  Your personality is based on your genes.  The personality traits you are born with stay the same regardless of the environment you grow up in.  This refers to the individuals innate qualities.  Personality begins to develop during the “critical period.”

3.  Nature has more effect on someone’s personality than nurture does.  DNA is a crucial determinant of personality.  Genes are the basic units that pass on personality from one generation to the next.  It is not determined by one gene. - Many genes work together to determine it.

4.  Scientists have conducted studies on twins who were separated at birth. - Twins who met when they were adults had many personality traits in common. - When separately interviewed, the twins’ answers were nearly identical. - This is a result of their identical DNA.  Separated identical twins share mannerisms. - Posture

5.  Psychological/personality traits are influenced by heredity. - Intelligence, traditionalism, risk avoidance, aggression, and leadership  Identical twins’ DNA allow their personalities to be more similar than fraternal twins’.  Scientists have a theory that intelligence is inherited.

6.  Cognitive ability is said to be inherited  Example: A child with intelligent parents, but raised in a less intellectual environment would do poorly in their early ages, but their IQ would spike at an older age.

7.  During twin studies, nature/nurture was tested. - Identical twins who had grown up in two different households had identical personalities.  Someone’s genes gives them a personality, it’s what they are born with. - Everyone should be nurtured, but it doesn’t create a personality.

8.  Eye / hair color  Height / Weight  Social potency / leadership  Vulnerability  Interest in aesthetic experiences  Inherited homosexual gene (through generations)

9.  Personality traits are inherited.  Your genes have more effect on your personality than your environment does.  Although good parenting is important, it does not determine who you are.  Nature determines who you are.

10.  Arthurs, Spencer A. Psychology, Principles in Practice. Austin, [Tex.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1998. Print.  "Nature vs Nurture." - Difference and Comparison. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Sept. 2012..  Flat World Knowledge. "PY141 General Psychology." Is Personality More Nature or More Nurture? Behavioral and Molecular Genetics. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Sept. 2012..