Nature/Nurture(Social Area)

Question 1

Key concepts of the nature/nurture debate

Answer 1

Nature-characteristics Termin by genes that may be present at birth or a pair later as you mature

Nurture -behaviour, learn through experience and interactions with the environment

Question 2

Applications of the nature/nurture debate

Answer 2

Eugenics-aims to improve the quality of humans through selective breeding, but selective breeding only improves quality of the behaviour. E.g. IQ is inherited.

Question 3

Links to core studies

Answer 3

Bandura et al are children born to be aggressive (nature, )or do they learn it (nurture)

Milgram considered why people obey authority and speculated that we have a genetic tendency to be obedient (nature)

Question 4

Evaluation of the nature/nurture debate

Answer 4

+ interactionist-makes us consider what makes each of us unique= a mix of our genetic makeup and life experiences

-reductionist the debate suggests the answer is either nature or nurture when it is always a combination of both