Nature vs Nurture debate

• Nature- genes are inherited from parents and are passed on to offspring and are responsible for personality and behaviour.
• Nurture- environment is the most important factor that influences development, including socialisation and learning experiences
• (social) Obedience debate, whether obedience is due to personality factors or situational factors.
• (social) authoritarian personality is found in different cultures suggesting personality is innate (nature).
• (cognitive) episodic and semantic memory both use experiences (nurture).
• (cognitive) reconstructive memory is about use of schemas built from past experiences (nurture).
• (biological) hormones such as testosterone have been linked with aggression (nature).
• (cognitive) focus on brain functioning and brain structure (nature) linking to memory, like temporal lobe and hippocampus are connected to short term memory processing.
• (learning) learning theories are all about nurture. Effect or environmental stimuli condition certain responses, classical conditioning.
• (learning) Operant conditioning focuses on rewards and punishment's effect on behaviour. These are environmental, nurture not nature.
• (clinical) Genetic explanation of schizophrenia suggests it is caused nature.
• (clinical) social explanation of schizophrenia states environment as cause of schizophrenia (nurture).
• (biological ) evolutionary theory of aggression is nature.
• twin and adoption studies investigate arguments for and against characteristics relating to nature vs nurture.
• nature vs nurture debate introduced with the discussion of evolution and genes introduced.
• (learning) Phobias explained as evolved survival traits (nature) or learned from the environmental influence (nurture).