Adoption Studies (Mednick et al)

Question 1

What have studies compared regarding offspring?

Answer 1

Studies have compared the behaviour of offspring to their adopted parents and biological parents.

Question 2

What did Hutchings and Mednick find about male offspring?

Answer 2

Hutchings and Mednick found that a substantial amount of male offspring with criminal convictions had biological parents with criminal convictions.

Question 3

What are strengths of this theory

Answer 3

Studies by Hutchings and Mednick show a link between offspring who are adopted and their biological parents.

Removal from one environment gives greater facility to split genetic and environmental factors.

Question 4

What is a weakness regarding data on biological families?

Answer 4

Data regarding the biological family may be kept confidential.

Question 5

What is a concern with older adopted children?

Answer 5

Older adopted children may already be influenced by the environment of their biological parents.

Question 6

What policy is used within the Adoption Studies

Answer 6

Eugenics

Question 7

How was the policy implemented

Answer 7

It was used to kill of certain offspring that was linked to criminal genes

Question 8

What is nature and nurture scheme?

Answer 8

Nature is when it is caused by their family, Nurture is when its caused by environment