Nature vs Nurture

Question 1

Biological- Nature

Answer 1

• Aggresson/ crime/ mental illness
• Genes for AN
• XYY for criminal
• Brain structure for aggression
• Brain injury in crime neurodevelopmental
• Amygdala for crime
• Hormones for aggression
• NTs for aggression and dopamine hypothesis for Sz
• Eysenck for crime

Question 2

Biological- Nature

Answer 2

• TBI- brain from external force
• Flu/ poor diet for mum causes brain malfunction- brain structure

Question 3

Cognitive- Nature

Answer 3

• Reconstructive memory- process is universal but we have different schemas beased on individual experience
• Fight or flight

Question 4

Cognitive- nurture

Answer 4

• Computer analogy we are born with hardware and the capacity for cognitive functions but experience- programming
• Memory processes are seen as universal funtioning- MSM
• Cause of aggression is nurture that has faulty thinking patterns

Question 5

Social- Nature

Answer 5

• Everyone has 2 states of min
• Compete for survival- scarce resources
• Tajfel said it is in our nature to go through the stages of social identity theory

Question 6

Social- nurture

Answer 6

• Authoritarian personality theory- strict parents- punitive/ conditional love
• Agency theory- authority figure means they will go into agentic shift
• Social Impact theory- f(SIN)- all environmental factors
• RCT- competition- nurture
• Social identity theory- presence of another group, categroisation, identification and comparison
• Social causation for Sz- social stressors- poor urban living
• SFP and labelling- what someone has said to you, perceiver and targets

Question 7

Learning- Nature

Answer 7

• UCR- reflex we already have- fear, salivation

Question 8

Learning- nurture

Answer 8

• Gender appropriate behaviours, lagnuage, aggression and phobias, AN
• Learning through condition- CC- association
• SLT- observation
• OC- consewuences, shaped experiences