Psychology A-Level
heritability estimates
What heritability estimates means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of heritability estimates
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A property of a population in a particular range of environments, partitioning variation within a group rather than giving any individual a percentage.
Topics that use heritability estimates
- Section B: Option 1 Child psychology (OCR A-Level)
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