Divorce is a life-transforming experience. After divorce, childhood is different. Adolescence is different. Adulthood—with the decision to marry or not and have children or not—is different. Whether the outcome is good or bad, the whole trajectory of an individual’s life is profoundly altered by the divorce experience (Davey).…
The variance in one’s traits can be attributed to his/her environment and genetic factors to a bigger percentage. Genetic composition largely influences psychological traits and becomes a key driving force behind individual behaviors. In the case of Chris, his personality matches that of his father to a large extent. As a family friend, I know firsthand that Chris’s father is as agreeable as his son. Their similarity is a perfect example of one inheriting his/her parents’ traits. Just like Chris, his father is a community worker and is always seeking to help people. Also, Mr. Kim enjoys doing a follow-up on his activities and is always asking his son’s friends to follow his adventures on Twitter. When I look at Chris, I see his father, and most of the time, he is called Kim junior, because he represents his father in the community meetings. Moreover, Chris’s mother, Mrs. Kim, is not any different from her spouse and son. She is always ready to try out new things and to join academic and life courses to learn something new. She believes that one never acquires enough knowledge and so, people should strive to be better than…
Some say that people of great achievement are born that way. Others claim that anyone who applies the right attitude and effort can be moulded into someone great.…
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Parents are often told to “think about the children.” Doctor Judith S. Wallerstein, the Executive Director of the Center for the Family in Transition, California, stated in her scholarly journal : “A comprehensive review of research from several disciplines regarding long-term effects of divorce on children yields a growing consensus that significant numbers of children suffer for many years from psychological and social difficulties associated with continuing and/or new stresses within the post-divorce family and experience heightened anxiety in forming enduring attachments at later developmental stages including young adulthood.” In this, Wallerstein is making the claim that divorce effects children so deeply that they suffer from stress, anxiety, and psychological and social difficulties. While these have been common results, divorce is sometimes in the well-being of all family members. If parents argue often, disrupting and terrifying children, (especially if young) then separating would relieve family members from the anxiety that arguments and fighting cause. Robert E. Emery, a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Children, Families, and the Law, Virginia, claims experts are often confused on the true effects of divorce on children. In his article, he includes children whose parents’ marriage “was full of intense conflict and…
Below is a timeline that will be used for the class debate on the issue of Psychology’s Nature vs. Nurture. Carefully follow directions to prepare, debate and discuss this highly controversial issue in the psychological world today. Be sure to understand that you must debate on the side of the debate that was assigned to you, even if it does not reflect your personal feelings. Note the criteria based on group and personal participation.…
For the past five weeks we have studied three different but influential people in our perspective on human nature class. They are Freud, Plato and Tzu. The main discussion between all of them is nature versus nurture. I will discuss the difference between nature and nurture and then I'll apply to each of these philosophers and how they react to it.…
“Many of the 1.5 million children in the U.S. whose parents divorce every year feel as if their worlds are falling apart”. Divorce is a common trend among our society today. People chose to get marry early since they think they’ve met the love of their life already. Maybe sometimes they even decide to have a kid while thinking carelessly. I believe divorce is a major issue in our society today; it’s not as easy as it seems and occasionally affects children who is involved in the divorce.…
Innate behaviour is inborn, inherited in our genes, unchangeable behaviour such as a reflex; a uncontrollable, involuntary movement. For example when an eyelid will automatically close when a puff of wind is blown into it or the palmer grasp, a baby will automatically close its hand and hold any object that stimulates its palm. Babies are born with numerous innate reflexes. These primitive reflexes include, The rooting reflex – when the corner of a babies mouth is stroked it will turn toward the stimulus in order to find the food it needs and will begin to suckle if milk is found. Also there is the Moro reflex - this is when a baby is startled either by sound or motion, its arms will quickly extend out to the side and then will close in back towards the body. Both of these reflexes will disappear by the age of one. Other bodily reflexes such as quickly moving a body part away from the cause of pain or wind blown into an eye and eyelid closing instantly will remain throughout life in order to protect life. A more complex innate instinct behaviour would be; the nesting instinct that a pregnant woman feels, the strong urge to build a perfect clean tidy home for her newborn. Our bodies incorporate such reflexes to protect us- for example a child who may have a piece of food stuck in its windpipe will automatically cough in order to dislodge the food to prevent choking, thus saving life.…
Evolution vs. creationism, pro choice vs. pro life, nature vs. nurture, etc..., these issues will always be debatable. These controversial issues will always divide the population up. Many people tend to put all their beliefsin science or religion. All are highly controversial and will be a major concern until the end of time.…
Ajournalist once asked the behavioral psychologist Donald Hebb whether a person’s genes or environment mattered most to the development of personality. Hebb replied that the question was akin to asking which feature of a rectangle—length or width—made the most important contribution to its area.…
Kendler, K. S., et al. Major depression and generalized anxiety disorder. Same genes (partly) different environments? (1992). Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 49:716-22. Web of Science.…
Do individuals become criminals as a result of heredity or genetics or is it their environment that is in fact at play? This question has left Criminologists in debate for the better part of our modern era. In order to help answer this question we must first take a closer look at the concept of Nature vs. Nurture, a popular psychological term initially created by Darwin and other positivists. "Nature vs. Nurture" refers to internal and external factors that play a role in behaviour, in this case in reference to criminals. "Nature" is paired up with the biological explanation known as internal factors. "Supporters of the biological perspective argue that we must identify the role of heredity and the importance of biophysical, as well as biosocial…
The nature & nurture issue is a long controversial issue that explains the significance of nature and nurture in several parts of individual development, such as personality, and intelligence. Nature inheritance is genetic behaviors passed from your parents. For example, some people have family genes that enable them to become successful in subjects such as mathematics and science, as well as verbal intelligence. Nurture experiences and learning takes effect after birth. This is what causes psychological characteristics to be established. For instance, if a child grows up in an abusive and dysfunctional home, they are more likely to look for stable and loving care outside the family.…
Soon the father and mother are struggling to care for their child and can’t make ends meet, causing strain and pressures to build; eventually causing one to lose their job. After a while the mother decides to take matters into her own hands and take on a part-time position to help bring in a paycheck and to help support the child, but soon it becomes overwhelming for her to continue on with her duties as wife, mother and sole-provide; and soon they decide to go their separate ways. This is what is known as micro-level influences, a turn of events that took us on a different path then the one we were currently going down; making people become outright judgmental. Soon everyone has their own opinions as to what went wrong in their relationship, and start becoming the experts as to what should have been; or what could have been for this couple. In other words, the start to play the blame game saying they should have been adults, and awaited having children; their just being selfish and unrealistic. “On the other hand, micro explanations should be keep in prospective, many marriages and family text-books and pop psychology books stress the importance of individual choices but ignore micro-level variables” (Jones, ASID, IIDA, and Phyllis Sloan Allan, L.M., 2009 pg.…