Nature/Nurture Debate

Whose name is associated with nativisim?

• Rene Descartes

• William James

• John Locke

• Richard Lerner

Nativism is associated with the idea that human behaviour is

• innate

• learnt

Empiricism has to do with the importance of experience and therefore is linked to ...

• nature

• nurture

Early empiricist...

• Rene Descartes

• John Locke

• William James

• Richard Lerner

John Locke described a new born baby as...

• a blank slate

• a bundle of id

• a neonate

• a little acorn

John Locke and the empiricists are linked to ...

• behaviourism

• humanistic psychology

• bio-psychology

• cognitive psychology

A decimal which describes the extent to which a characteristic is genetically inherited

• Heritability coefficient

• Biomarker

• Spearman's

• MZ/DZ concordance rate

Robert Plomin places the heritability coefficient for intelligence as around

• 0.3

• 0.5

• 0.7

• 0.9

Nurture or the environment is a broad term but it has been divided into three levels by...

• Richard Lerner

• John Watson

• Burrhus F Skinner

• Rene Descartes

Which of the following is not one of Lerner's three levels of the environment

• pre-natal environment, including health and well being of the mother

• post natal experiences within the social environment

• the cultural and historical context

• our genetic inheritance from our parents