Nature and Nurture
Nature
Baron-Cohen – autism
lacking a theory of mind
Dement and Kleitman –
sleep patterns Sperry – organisation of
brain
Both
Samuel and Bryant –
Nature – Piaget’s stages of
development
Nurture – experience of
being questioned by adults
Savage-Rumbaugh –
Nurture – taught language,
but differences between
species is Nature
Freud – Nature – stages,
Nurture – the way Little
Hans is helped to
overcome problems
Thigpen and Cleckley –
Nature – predisposition to
MPD
Nurture – life events
trigger manifestation of
MPD
Griffiths – Nature –
tendency to take risks, to
be irrational,
Nurture – adapting the
gambling predisposition to
the Fruit machine
environment.
Piliavin – nurture -reacting
to emergency situation by
applying learnt values.
Nature – many want to
help
Nurture
Maguire – hippocampus
changes shape with
navigational experience.
Loftus and Palmer –
Understanding of verbs
Bandura – learn aggression
Milgram – situation causes
obedience.
Reicher and Haslam –
learn to respond to prison
environment
Rosenhan – learnt to
expect people in asylum to
be insane