Issues and Debates (nature v nurture)

Question 1

What is the nature vs nurture debate

Answer 1

The extent to which aspects of behaviour are either inherited or acquired

Question 2

What is nature

Answer 2

Aspects of behaviour are a product of acquired characteristics from the environment

Question 4

What do Nativists believe?

Answer 4

• Nativists such as Descartes believe that human characteristics are innate and the results of heredity factors ( Nature)

Question 5

What do Empiricists believe?

Answer 5

• Empiricists such as Locke disagreed and argues that the mind is a blank slate at birth and ppl have to learn and experience (Nurture)

Question 6

What is the modern accepted view of nature & nurture

Answer 6

That nature & nurture are linked - known as the interactionist approach

Question 7

What do interactionists argue

Answer 7

• That nature & nurture are linked so it doesn’t makes sense to separate the two
• And researchers should study how they interact and influence each other

Question 8

What is Epigenetics

Answer 8

The changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression, due to interaction with the environment

Question 9

What is the diathesis stress model

Answer 9

Biological vulnerability of being born with a disorder

Question 10

What is niche picking

Answer 10

The ideas that people create their own nurture by actively selecting environments that complete their nature

Question 11

Neuroplasticity

Answer 11

The change in the structure of the brain (nature) as a result of life experiences (nurture) eg: taxi driver study