Nature vs Nuture

Question 1

What is the nature vs nuture debate?

Answer 1

Is behaviour determined by genetic inhertiance or environmental experiences.

Question 2

John Locke’s view on nature vs nuture

Answer 2

• Argues for nuture.
• John Locke (1632-1704): ‘tabula rasa’ -> at birth, our minds are a blank slate.

Question 3

Cognitive approach’s perspective on the nature vs nurture debate

Answer 3

• Interactionalist approach.
• Innate information processing abilites are constantly refined by experience.

Question 4

Heritability Coefficent

Answer 4

• Extent to which characterstics have a genetic basis (higher vaule -> more biological trait).
• Scientific way of measuring the extent.

Question 5

Tienari et al. (2004)

Answer 5

Adoptees with dsyfunctional adoptive families and the same genetics for schizophera from their blood relatives, displayed characterstics of schizophera.

Question 6

What does the diathesis-stress model say?

Answer 6

Stressers in the environment can trigger mental illnesses howver you need to be genetically dispaposed.

Question 7

What are epigenetics?

Answer 7

• Agrues that nature, nuture and epigenetics make up human behaviour.
• Genetic codes can be dominant or active when exposed to your environment. They don’t change.
• Memories can be encoded into genes and passed down to new generations.

Question 8

What are biopsychologist’s view on the nature vs nuture debate?

Answer 8

Biopsychologists recognise the influence of the environment on our biology. E.g. epigenetics, diathesis-stress model.