Nature versus nurture
What Nature versus nurture means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Gibson's theory emphasises nature over nurture because the environment supplies all the information and no learning or past experience is needed.
If such behaviour were entirely innate, everyone would read the same expressions the same way.
Topics that use Nature versus nurture
- Language, thought and communication (AQA GCSE)
- Perception (AQA GCSE)
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- Active construction of reality
- Adaptive function of communication
- Ambiguity and illusory contours
- Ambiguity in perception
- Application to child examples
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- Cognitive development preceding language
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