Discuss the nature-nurture debate. Refer to two topics of psychology you have studied in your answer.
nature refers to…
nativists, Descartes
nurture refers to…
empiricists, Locke, blank slate
the original debate was…
the modern debate is…
schizophrenia
nature - biology
Ripke etc.
nurture - family dysfunction
schizophrogenic mother etc.
interactionist, Tienari (2004), Finnish adoptees
aggression
the interactionist approach is…
greater ecological validity
influence on each other…
epigenetics
reciprocal determinism, constructivism
hard-core either way is very deterministic
it’s challenging to separate the influences, e.g. Brunner (1993), MAOA or family culture?
should study both of them like Frazetto (2007), MAOA gene and childhood trauma