A01: The Nature-Nurture Debate
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- A01: The Nature-Nurture Debate
- Nature
- Human characteristics are innate
- The result of heredity
- The idea of the biological approach
- Nurture
- The mind is a blank slate at birth
- Behaviour is learned through interaction with the environment
- The idea of the behaviourist approach
- Learning can be from prenatal and postnatal environments
- Interactionism
- The focus on the debate is now on the relative influence of both nature and nurture
- e.g. bond between infant and parent
- Child's innate temperament influences how the parent behaves towards them
- The parent's responses in turn affect the child's behaviour
- Diathesis-Stress Model
- Mental disorder is caused by a biological vulnerability, coupled with an environmental trigger
- E.g. Sz
- Candidate genes cause the vulenrability
- The environmental trigger may be family dysfunction
- Epigenics
- A change in genetic activity without changing the genetic code
- Lifestyle and events leave 'marks' on our DNA
- These marks tell our bodies which genes to ignore and which to use
- This can influence the genetic code of our children
- Relative Importance
- Environemntal influences on a human begin at conception
- This means the nature-nurture debate is impossible to answer
- e.g. in twin studies, concordance rates could be due to shared genetics or shared upbringing
- Nature
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