- Social: Role of authoritarian personality and upbringing in obedience and prejudice. Realistic Conflict and Social Identity focus on situational factors that cause conflict. May be oversimplified. Personality theories do not ignore nurture side – in fact personality traits can often arise from upbringing.
- Cognitive: HM would suggest the hippocampus plays important role in forming new memories. However reconstructive memory emphasises how our learned schema (which is a natural mental construct) and experiences have helped our memories develop through interaction w/ environment.
- Biological: Focus on brain structure/CNS/hormones/neurotransmitters/brain localisation in aggression – nature. Genetic determinism ignores nurture side
- Learning: Behaviourist focus on observable and measureable, so look at nurture side. We learn from external factors, ie role models. Behaviour such as gender roles learnt rather than biologically determined.
- Clinical: All disorders have competing explanations, ie schizophrenia has a biological and psychological. Most psychologists argue this is a false debate because of constant interaction between nature and nurture, combined to create behaviour.
- Child: Attachment is universal, but the types vary from country to country and even within countries, suggesting cultural differences in childrearing result in different attachments. Attachment itself largely founded in nature, but qualities of attachment differ according to nurture.
