nurture

• nurture

  • any influence on behaviour which is not genetic eg people, events
  • external factors are responsible
• Examples:

  • Behaviourism — Behaviourists assume that all behaviour can be learnt via experience. eg classical conditioning learning via association(pavlov)operant conditioning learning via consequences(skinner)
  • SLT- bandura proposed all behaviour is learnt via the observation and immitation of others via vicarious reinforcement(indirect learning) or identification.
• Interactionist approach

  • the view that the processes of nature and nurture work together rather than in opposition
  • Biological predisposition triggered by an environmental stressor