summary notes on nature and nurture debate in a level psychology, covering the 4 foundations : social, cognitive, biological and learning approaches in which nature and nurture is discussed.
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human beings "tabula rasa", a 'blank slate' onto which experiences drawn
often it is not so much the kind of person a human is as the
kind of situation in which he/she finds themselves that
determines how they will act (Milgram-1974)
both SCIENTIFIC approaches, but connection Nature perspective and
Biological Psychology strengthens its claim to be based on "scientific facts"
A predisposition is a built-in tendency
INTERACTIONIST
Affect each other
from Nature, but don't make difference until in an appropriate environment
(Nurture
But can be 'overwritten' by habit, education or experience
DETERMINISM - the belief no free will
BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM:
Nature =everything we do mapped out from birth by innate characteristics
( genes)
case studies of identical twins that were separated as babies but grew up to
lead strikingly similar lives
Nu: everything we do is shaped by our environment which we are powerless
to resist
Eg. poverty, broken homes and poor education
Neither accepts that people make free-willed decisions of their own
We may not view it this way: decisions feel like they are our own, freely made,
not determined in advance by biology or society
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