Need explanation of psych term: heritability.
So its connected to the phenotypic variations, so to say.
So whatever the phenotype characteristics are, that is what the heredity is?
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Also need explanation of : As noted, if the extent of similarity on a particular trait correlates strongly with the degree of genetic closeness, it can be inferred that the trait is highly heritable, while weaker correlations indicate lower heritability.
heritability is basically the extent to which a certain trait is passed through genetics so IQ, for example, is considered 50% heritable
the paragraph is saying that if a trait is shown to be strongly related to a genetic similarity, then it's highly heritable, and the opposite is also true (if a trait is not related very much to genetic similarity, then it has low heritability)
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