ao3 nature vs nurture debate

Question 1

constructivism

Answer 1

• Plomin suggested that an individual’s ‘nature’ would determine their ‘nurture’ through niche-picking
• For example, a naturally aggressive child would be more likely to play with and befriend other aggressive children = which increases the aggressiveness of the child.
• the idea of constructivism further emphasises the multi-layered relationship between nature and nurture.

Question 2

nurture affects nature

Answer 2

• Maguire et al study of London taxi drivers showed that the region of their brains with spatial memory was bigger than in controls = hippocampi had responded this way.
• found a larger grey matter volume hippocampus, an area of the brain associated with spatial awareness (completing ‘The Knowledge’ exam)
• positive correlation between increasingly pronounced changes and an increased length of time that individuals had been taxi drivers.
• nature of empiricism and nativism and gives further reason as to why the influences of the two cannot be separated.

Question 3

diathesis-stress model

Answer 3

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Question 4

epigenetics

Answer 4

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