Psychological Perspectives - nature vs nurture

If a child has brown eyes when she is born, it would be an example of...

• Nurture

• Nature

• Genetic Inheritance

• Environment

Most would agree that people are...

• a product of their genetics

• a product of their environment

• a product of their environment and the traits they were born with.

Inherited genetic characteristics versus environment and social learning is also called...

• Achievement versus Failure.

• Resocialisation versus Instinct.

• Self reflection and generalisation.

• Nature versus Nurture.

Behaviourist theory suggests that all behaviour, except reflex behaviour, is a response to a

• conditioned response to food.

• classical sound of bells.

• stimulus in the environment.

• learned behaviour to salivate.

Ivan Pavlov experimented on conditioning dogs to respond to a bell, this theory is

• social learning.

• reflex theory.

• operant conditioning.

• classical condtioning.

Who developed the technique on operant conditioning?

• Ivan Pavlov

• B.F. Skinner

• Sigmund Freud

• Albert Bandura

Operant conditioning is used to change behaviour by ____________ desired behaviour and ___________ or punishing unwanted behaviours.

• Reinforcing

• Ignoring

• Refusing

• Inspiring

____________ theory suggests that we understand the world through perception, language, thinking and memory.

Who are the three of many cognitive psychologists.

• G.Kenny, J.Pandora and F.Paris (Gestalt theory)

• J.Piaget, G.Kelly and F.Peris (Gestalt theory)

• Bandura, Skinner and Pavlov

• Piaget, Kelly and Gestalt

________ _________ suggests that we learn how to behave by observing others