The environment ( learning, socialisation and experience)
behaviourist approach
Levels of the environment
Range from pre-natal environment in the womb to life outside the womb in the external world.
Interactionism
Heredity and the environment an influence on each other
Epigenetics
A change to our genetic activity with out changing our genetic code
example of epigenetics
women who became pregnant during the Dutch famine went on to give birth to babies with low birth weight and babies who were twice as likely to develop an SZ when they grew.
Eugenics
set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of the human population
Constructivism
Gene-enviro interaction
passive constructivism
parents genes influence the way they treat there child
Evocativeconstructivism
individual genes influence the environment that is built around them
Active constructivism
Individuals create own environment by experiences they selected
