nature/nurture

• Nature-nurture debate discusses if behaviour is due to nature (genes) or nurture (environment)
• Nature

  • nativist psychologists believe in importance of heredity - human behaviour are innate and passed on from one generation to the next via genes
  • addiction - fast metabolism, lower amount of D2 receptors
• Nurture

  • empiricists (skinner) argue mind is a blank slate at birth and behaviour is shaped by our environment, learning and experiences
  • addiction - nicotine - feel euphoria