Nature-nurture Flashcards
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Describe the Nature debate
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Human characteristics are innate and inherited, a prominent part of biological approach
2
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What is the Heritability coefficient for IQ
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- 0.5
2. Suggest environmental but also genetic element
3
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Relative importance of Nature-nurture
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- Impossible to separate the two as environment will have effect from even before birth
- Newer focus on relative contribution of each influence on behaviour and conditions
4
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Interactionalist approach
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- Attachment
- Child’s temperament influences how Parent responds to them
- So nature creates nurture
5
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Levels of environment
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- Mothers physical state during pregnancy
- Social and upbringing
- Cultural and historical context
6
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Diathesis stress models
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- Genetic vulnerability only triggers when coupled with environment
- Finnish adoptees most likely to develop SZ if family history of (nature) and if dysfunctional family (nature)
7
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Epigenetic
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- Controls what genes are expressed without changing base sequence
- A result of interactions with environment
- Mice given a shock when presented with perfume
- Children also scared of perfume
8
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Implications of a heavily biological determinism
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- Attamepts to link race to intelligence
- ## Eugenics
- Conversely empiricist suggest all behavior can be changed by altering environment
- Could lead to a society that manipulated citizens
9
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Shared and unshared environments (support that they cannot be teased apart)
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- Individual differences means siblings will interpret life events differently
- Such as age and temperament
10
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Constructivism
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- People create their own nurture to suit their nature
- Aggressive child will hang out with similar people
- Further evidence you cannot separate nature and nurture
11
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What’s used to measure nature v nurture
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Heritability coefficient
12
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Problems with twin studies
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Also they may differ in extent to shared or unshared environment
