NATURE

• WHO TAKES A NATURE STANCE?

  Nativists
• EXAMPLE OF A NATIVIST?

  Descartes
• WHAT DOES THE NATURE STANCE STATE?

  behaviour determined by innate characteristics and is a result of heredity
• WHAT IS HEREDITY?

  genetic transmission of characteristics from one generation to another
• WHAT APPROACH SUPPORTS THE NATURE ARGUMENT?

  biological
• LINK TO NATURE IN ATTACHMENT?

  Bowlby's Monotropic Attachment Theory
• LINK TO NATURE IN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY?

  biological approach to OCD (Nestadt's study)
• LINK TO NATURE IN AGGRESSION?

  Brunner, faulty MAOA gene
• LINK TO NATURE IN GENDER?

  Money case study of Reiner (effect of chromosomes/ hormones on gender)
• LINK TO NATURE IN EATING BEHAVIOUR?

  adapted to flee famine hypothesis to explain anorexia