Nature Vs Nurture

Negative/Positive - nature - real-life application

• Empirics suggest that if we alter environmental conditions, then we can alter behaviour too

• This idea led to the emergence of the token economy used in psych wards to treat patients with schizophrenia.

• This could be dehumanising and humiliating.

• It is also unethical to deprive patients from their “reward”

  • suggesting that this could means society can control and manipulate citizens to behave in a certain way

negative - Nature - we cannot avod what our genes have determined for us

• extremely deterministic as it states we have no control over our behaviour.

• e.g. MAOA gene liked to aggressive and CDH13 liked to ADHD

• in a Finnish study cobiming these genes was found to increase likelihood of crimes by 13 times

• could excue negative behaviour

  • which could also lead to the application of this to eugenetics polices, where only people with desiereble traits are encourages to reproduce

Negative/Positive - nature - real-life application

• Empirics suggest that if we alter environmental conditions, then we can alter behaviour too

• This idea led to the emergence of the token economy used in psych wards to treat patients with schizophrenia.

• This could be dehumanising and humiliating.

• It is also unethical to deprive patients from their “reward”

  • suggesting that this could means society can control and manipulate citizens to behave in a certain way

negative - Nature - we cannot avod what our genes have determined for us

• extremely deterministic as it states we have no control over our behaviour.

• e.g. MAOA gene liked to aggressive and CDH13 liked to ADHD

• in a Finnish study cobiming these genes was found to increase likelihood of crimes by 13 times

• could excue negative behaviour

  • which could also lead to the application of this to eugenetics polices, where only people with desiereble traits are encourages to reproduce

negative - both - issues sepeating nature from nurture

• In twin studies, it is unlikely that MZ and twins share 100% of their environment and

• showing that we cannot separate our gene and environment

  • suggesting we cannot fully understand the relative importance of hereditary and environmental factors

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