Scientific Method ANSWERS
b. Any properly controlled experiments allows
_ ONE _ Independent Variable(s)
But we have a definite problem.
Only you have your specific set of G E N E S and only you
have your specific E N V I R O N M E
N T A L history. That sounds like _TWO_
Independent Variables, but it does not have to be that way if we decide to study humans
that
are I D E N T I C A L T
W I N S , since these siblings have the same H E R E D I T Y.
Researchers have
used twin studies in their long search for an answer to how much of each of
us is determined by our G E N E
T I C S and how much of us is determined by our
E N V I R O N M E N T.
This search is
also known as the case for N A T U R E versus N U R T U R E,
with the
first blanked word representing our H
E R E D I T Y and the second blanked word
representing our E N V I R O N
M E N T A L variables.
The pendulum of time
swings back and forth like that on a grandfather clock. In some eras,
researchers felt strongly that
H E R E D I T Y was the dominant factor in determining your
behaviors. In others, researchers
leaned more strongly to our social E N V I R O N M E N T
was the dominant factor in determining our
behaviors. Nobody can put an actual percentage
on these two determiners of our behaviors.