Nature vs. Nurture

Question 1

What is commonly accepted by modern psychologists?

Answer 1

• That nature and nurture must interact,
• Personality and behaviour seem to be influenced by both; known as the interactionist approach.

Question 2

Gottesman (1963) findings

Answer 2

• That people have a reaction range,
• Means everyone has a certain genetic potential for things like intelligence and height; the genotype,
• Environment determines how much this potential is fulfilled; the phenotype.