The Nature Vs. Nurture Debate
The nature versus nurture debate:
The nature versus nurture debate was founded by Francis Galton in the 19th century. It basically states that all of your attributes are either hereditary or environmentally.
There are many theories that have challenges the nature versus nurture theory. For example; some of the theories state that there are different kinds of attributes such as life experiences, how our parents raise us, what we are taught at school and our cultural backgrounds.
It is obvious that we are born with some of our parents attributes, for example your parents may both have long legs that you inherited, but things like perhaps a love of poetry or your sexual preference weren’t inherited, and have influenced your personality from your …show more content…
This proves the nature theory, proving that attributes are founded at birth. But other scientists are taking this further and into ethical questions such as “what if serial killers were born to commit their crimes?” The most current nature versus nurture debate is whether the “gay gene" exists or not. This would suggest that homosexuality is no more a choice than eye colour.
There are also attributes that are a mixture of nature and nurture, such as:
Personality:
Nurture - often there are similarities and differences that come from your parents.
Nature – Children develop personalities and lean towards certain behaviours such as shyness and anger. It sometimes cannot be explained because the parents sometimes don’t have these traits.
Homosexuality:
Nurture – It’s widely seen that it is a humans choice to be a homosexual, where as some people believe that it’s to do with someone’s upbringing.
Nature – People believe that homosexuality is genetic, like your foot size or eye colour. The argument for this is the perspective that nature being responsible for the individual development in life.
Intelligence:
Nurture – This could be based on the childs educational background as well as how the individuals parents had raised …show more content…
For example, during adolescence Samora’s breast would start to develop, she would have started body hair, her weight should increase and she may develop acne. This is nature, as they are things that Samora can’t change. Samora started smoking at the age of 15, which is very young and could have shunted her full lung development. She also does dancing and netball, which would have helped her going through puberty, as she wouldn’t gain as much weight as she was active.
Mental – This is where Samora decided her career. She is a qualified primary school teacher, which she would have had to of decided on when she started college. This could have been a stressful time for Samora as she had to decide the rest of her future at such a young age. She may have started smoking due to a false safety net, believing that bad things cant happen to her. For example, she could have believed that she wouldn’t get addicted to cigarettes because she believed she was
The nature versus nurture debate was founded by Francis Galton in the 19th century. It basically states that all of your attributes are either hereditary or environmentally.
There are many theories that have challenges the nature versus nurture theory. For example; some of the theories state that there are different kinds of attributes such as life experiences, how our parents raise us, what we are taught at school and our cultural backgrounds.
It is obvious that we are born with some of our parents attributes, for example your parents may both have long legs that you inherited, but things like perhaps a love of poetry or your sexual preference weren’t inherited, and have influenced your personality from your …show more content…
This proves the nature theory, proving that attributes are founded at birth. But other scientists are taking this further and into ethical questions such as “what if serial killers were born to commit their crimes?” The most current nature versus nurture debate is whether the “gay gene" exists or not. This would suggest that homosexuality is no more a choice than eye colour.
There are also attributes that are a mixture of nature and nurture, such as:
Personality:
Nurture - often there are similarities and differences that come from your parents.
Nature – Children develop personalities and lean towards certain behaviours such as shyness and anger. It sometimes cannot be explained because the parents sometimes don’t have these traits.
Homosexuality:
Nurture – It’s widely seen that it is a humans choice to be a homosexual, where as some people believe that it’s to do with someone’s upbringing.
Nature – People believe that homosexuality is genetic, like your foot size or eye colour. The argument for this is the perspective that nature being responsible for the individual development in life.
Intelligence:
Nurture – This could be based on the childs educational background as well as how the individuals parents had raised …show more content…
For example, during adolescence Samora’s breast would start to develop, she would have started body hair, her weight should increase and she may develop acne. This is nature, as they are things that Samora can’t change. Samora started smoking at the age of 15, which is very young and could have shunted her full lung development. She also does dancing and netball, which would have helped her going through puberty, as she wouldn’t gain as much weight as she was active.
Mental – This is where Samora decided her career. She is a qualified primary school teacher, which she would have had to of decided on when she started college. This could have been a stressful time for Samora as she had to decide the rest of her future at such a young age. She may have started smoking due to a false safety net, believing that bad things cant happen to her. For example, she could have believed that she wouldn’t get addicted to cigarettes because she believed she was