Nature Vs Nurture Research Paper
This semester in psychology has taught me a lot about the way I and people in general think and see the world. I’ve learned so much about the human mind and how it develops through nurture and nature. There has always been a debate as to what is the leading factor of why people do what they do. For centuries people have contested the topic as far back as the great philosopher Plato. I have learned in my short time in psychology class that nature and nurture both affect the person you are in your life from how you act, to the way and why you gain weight and even the way you feel.
One thing I’ve learned from psychology is how nature can affect you even with a different nurturing. Growing up I have never known my biological dad, who is also the …show more content…
Sadly through nature I‘ve gotten some of my father’s behavioral traits even with my new fathers nurture. A studies done in the 90’s(McGue &Bouchard, 1998; Plomin et al., 1998; Rowe, 1990) showed how children who were separated from their parents and living with foster parents still have a lot of the same traits as their biological parents even though they have grown up without them. This study showed that through nature kids who are separated from their parents will still genetically inherit some behaviors. As for myself through proper nurture from my step father I was able to fix unwanted genetic behaviors inherited from my biological father that would have given me problems in my future if they were left …show more content…
class. The whole semester I was in that class this punk kid would mess with the mentally handicapped or the scrawny Arabic kids who could not defend themselves. I had had enough so I walked up to the kid he was bullying and asked if the guy was his friend, and of course he said no. So I got into the bully’s face and told him to kick rocks or I would beat the crap out of him. He got the point and it never happened again and that’s when I realized it was ok to get angry. But I didn’t really understand what normal anger was until I read the psychology book for this class and how it talked about internalizing anger and seeing through other people’s perspective which in the future will help me be a more normal and productive part of
One thing I’ve learned from psychology is how nature can affect you even with a different nurturing. Growing up I have never known my biological dad, who is also the …show more content…
Sadly through nature I‘ve gotten some of my father’s behavioral traits even with my new fathers nurture. A studies done in the 90’s(McGue &Bouchard, 1998; Plomin et al., 1998; Rowe, 1990) showed how children who were separated from their parents and living with foster parents still have a lot of the same traits as their biological parents even though they have grown up without them. This study showed that through nature kids who are separated from their parents will still genetically inherit some behaviors. As for myself through proper nurture from my step father I was able to fix unwanted genetic behaviors inherited from my biological father that would have given me problems in my future if they were left …show more content…
class. The whole semester I was in that class this punk kid would mess with the mentally handicapped or the scrawny Arabic kids who could not defend themselves. I had had enough so I walked up to the kid he was bullying and asked if the guy was his friend, and of course he said no. So I got into the bully’s face and told him to kick rocks or I would beat the crap out of him. He got the point and it never happened again and that’s when I realized it was ok to get angry. But I didn’t really understand what normal anger was until I read the psychology book for this class and how it talked about internalizing anger and seeing through other people’s perspective which in the future will help me be a more normal and productive part of