Nature vs Nurture Introduction to the BIG Debate.
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Nature vs Nurture
Introduction to the BIG Debate
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What do we mean?
• Nature – define what you think you know
• Nurture – define what you think you know
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Psychological Research
• Perception – two main theories
– Gibson’s direct theory
– Gregory’s constructivist theory
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Intelligence
• Twins and adoption
• Gene mapping
• Nurture
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Mental Illness and Nature
•Schizophrenia
•Biological parents
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Nature
• Purely genetic?
• Bandura study – Aggression/ anti social behaviour
• EEA – Environment of Evolutionary Adaptiveness
• Theories and speculation!
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Nurture
• Conditioning –
Affected by innate factors. Mineka (et al) showed that monkeys more easily acquired a fear of snakes (ancient fear) than something like fear of a flower.
Even the capacity to learn is innate?
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Perception
• Gibson’s Theory
• Gregory’s View
• Blakemore and Cooper
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Intelligence
• IQ test explained?
• Minimising and maximising
• Poor environmental factors?
• Turkheimer – gene factors or not?
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Mental Illness
• Diathesis – stress model
• Nature and Nurture
• Adopted Children
• Tienari (et al)
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Conclusion
• Overall both Nature and Nurture have an effect on all:
Behaviours although for certain behaviours one factor MAY be more influential
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Vocabulary• Assumptions
• Theories
• Inferences
• Paradigm
• Innate
• Ambiguous
• Fragmentary
• Eugenics
• Derived