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| What is the assumption of the nurture side of the nature nurture debate? |
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| Environmental factors have the biggest influence over behaviour |
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| What is the assumption of the nature side of the nature nurture debate? |
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| Genetic and biological factors have the biggest influence over behaviour |
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| The entire set of genes in a person |
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| The observable characteristics of a person influenced by genes and the environment |
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| How does nativism fit with the nature side of the nature nurture debate? |
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| Traits are biological and innate |
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| How does empiricism fit with the nature side of the nature nurture debate? |
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| Behaviour that is biological can be measured |
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| What is the interactionist approach? |
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| Investigating the interaction and relative contributions of both nature and nurture |
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| What is the interactionist explanation for mental illness? |
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| People are genetically predispositioned to get the illness but may require environmental triggers to show behaviour |
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| Why do twin studies show that biological factors may not be the only factors influencing behaviour? |
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| Concordance rates are lower than 100% for MZ twins even though they share 100% of the same DNA |
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