1. By the end of this lesson you will be able to: Outline the nature - nurture debate in relation to gender development. Outline one natural experiment on gender development.

2. Hot or Not?

4. From Tim to Kim

5. “ Give me a dozen healthy infants...and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become anything.......... ..........doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, and his abilities” John B. Watson (1919)

6. “ Nurture is the view of empiricists, the view that everything is learned through interactions with the environment”. - Psychology A2: The Complete Companion

7. “ Nature is the view of nativists. Nature refers not simply to abilities present at birth but to any ability determined by genes, including those appearing through maturation”. -Psychology A2: The Complete Companion

8. A Natural Experiment Take two identical twin boys Raise one twin as a boy Raise one twin as a girl Findings?