Nature nurture

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What is nature?
Inherited influences or heredity
What did Descartes state?
All human characteristics are innate
What is nurture?
Influence of experience and environment
What did Locke state?
The mind is a blank slate at birth, which is then shaped by environment
What is a concordance?
The degree to which 2 people are similar on a particular trait. Can be represented by a correlation coefficient
What can concordance tell you?
Estimate about the extent to which a trait is inherited
What is heritability?
Estimates the proportion of variation in a trait within a population, that is due to genetic differences among individuals
0.01 Tells you what?
Genes contributes nothing to individual differences
1.0 tells you what?
Genes only reason for individal difference
What is the interactionist approach?
A way to explain the development of behaviour in terms of both biological and psychological factors
Diatheses stress model?
States that behaviour is caused by a biological or environmental vulnerability, which is only expressed when coupled with a trigger
What is epigenetics?
A change in our genetic activity without changing the genes themselves
What is epigenetics caused by?
Interaction with the environment.
Aspects of lifestyle/ events leave marks on our DNA