nature vs nurture
what is nature
when someones behvaiour is influenced through genes so it is hereditary
what is nurture
when someones behaviour is determined by the enivorenment
what is ripke study et al
where over 100 risk alleles were related to schizophrenia
why is it difficult to study reletive contributions between nature and nurture
there may be many alleles associated with behvaiour
we do not know what extent environement affect genes (gene-environement correlation)
what is the interactionist approach
argues that nature and nurture work together to determine our behaviour
what is the diathesis stress model
the genetic vulnerability of having certain genes which predispose us to an illness or behaviour
eval for nature andd nurture
w- research found that nature and nurture cannot be seperated. Plomin et al suggests that if a child has genes that make them aggressive they will make friends who are aggressive .
w-maguries study as he found that taxi drivers brain the hippocampi grew because of the environment.