Nature v Nurture Flashcards
A01 for nature v nurture u
The argument to which behaviour can be explained by innate genetic factors or our environment and experience. Best explained using biological and learning theories. Interactionism suggests the both work together
Examples for Nature v Nurture
Social - Nurture - RCT Prejudice occurs in group formation and need external factor of competition to occur. But maybe in SIT prejudice v outgroup is nature, and also Adorno personality traits, but maybe this is nurture as well as parenting style affects
Baddeley - Nature as memory stores genetic. But accounted for extraneous variable of word association so maybe memory nurture as well
Raine - Nature due to brian structure and hormones, but brian structure can change over time due to injury so also nurture
Learning - Nurture as Behaviour learnt
