nature-nurture

• nature


  hereditary, influences of genes on behaviour, innate influences
• nurture


  environment, the mind starts as a blank slate - behaviourist approach
• interactionalist approach


  cannot separate nature and nurture, relative contribution is what matters
• diathesis stress model


  vulnerability + trigger

  inherited gene + trauma
• Epigenetics


  factors in your lifestyle that has effects on your DNA

  smoking

  trauma

  permanent and can be passed on