Issues and debates: Nature-Nurture debate

Question 1

What is the interactionist approach?

Answer 1

• The view that our behaviour is a result of both nature and nurture influences.
• ## E.g. Bowlby claimed that an infants attachment type is determined by the warmth and continuity of parental love (nurture); whereas Kagan claimed that an infants innate personality also affects the attachment relationship. So, it is the childs personality (nature) creates the parents response (nurture)- so environment and hereditary interact.