Nature-Nurture Debate

Question 1

Nature

Answer 1

This is the view that behaviour is the product of innate biological or genetic factors

Question 2

Nurture

Answer 2

This is the view that behaviour is the product of environmental influences

Question 3

Example of nature- Bowlby

Answer 3

Bowlby proposed that children come into the world biologically programmed to form attachment because this will help them survive

Question 4

Example of nurture- behavioural psychologists

Answer 4

Behavioural psychologists explain attachment in terms of classical conditioning. The child forms an attachment based on the pleasure experienced of being fed