Nature Vs Nurture

Question 1

What is the nature-nurture debate

Answer 1

The nature-nurture debate is the argument as to whether a person’s development is mainly due to their genes or environmental influences.

Question 2

What is nature

Answer 2

Nature is when behaviour is seen to be a product of innate factors

Question 3

What are examples such of the influences of nature

Answer 3

Examples of the influences of nature include genetic explanations and evolutionary explanations

Question 4

What are genetic explanations

Answer 4

Genetic explanations include studies that show that the closer two individuals are genetically, the more likely that both of them will develop the same behaviours

Question 5

What is nurture

Answer 5

Nurture is when the behaviour is a product of evolutionary influences

Question 6

What is an example of nurture

Answer 6

Behaviourism and social influences
Behaviourists assume that all behaviour can be explained in terms of experience alone

Question 7

what is an example of behaviourism - nurture

Answer 7

Skinner used the concepts of operant and classical conditioning to explain learning

Question 8

AO3 for nature-nurture debate

Answer 8

1. Diathesis stress model
2. Nurture affects nature - McGuire taxi drivers
3. Epigenetics