The development of a human is debated by either nature or nurture. It is argued that intelligence‚ behaviour‚ feelings and personality are either inherited by parents biologically or learned from personal experiences. In the case of Frankenstein‚ Mary Shelley argues that Frankenstein’s monster’s character developed because of the fact that he was not nurtured correctly. Mary Shelley is on the side supporting nurture in the nature versus nurture controversy. Victor Frankenstein abandoned the creature
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Mental Health : Nature or Nurture Mental health is by nature and not by nurture. The mental health of a person is linked to his gene and hereditary. A person with no mental illness ancestry does not easily encounter depression or other illness in adverse situations. On the other hand‚ a person having a parent with mental illness has a considerable chance of getting mentally ill. A person having a mutated gene in his DNA can get mental health problems easier than normal people. Nurturing adds to
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environment and training can increase one’s intelligence. Some scientists think that people behave as they do according to genetic predispositions. This is known as the "nature" theory of human behavior. Other scientists believe that people think and behave in certain ways because they are taught to do so. This is known as the "nurture" theory of human behavior. Intelligence can be employed to indicate the amount of knowledge available and the rapidity with which new knowledge is acquired; the ability
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HSP3M Essay: Nature vs. Nurture The Essay (This essay is worth approximately 8% of your final mark) Explore the following topic in a well-structured expository essay. Is it nature or nurture that has the greatest influence on shaping humankind’s intellect‚ personality‚ and emotions? Your essay must have a well-defined and debatable thesis. Your position on the topic must be consistent and clear. An argumentative essay does not merely assert an opinion; it presents an argument‚ and that
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The Debate: Nature vs. Nurture What determines someone’s sexuality‚ intelligence‚ mental health‚ athletic ability and other personality traits? The answer to this question has been heavily debated for years‚ and will most likely be debated for more years to come. The debate of nature vs. nurture is one of the largest debates having to do with childhood development. The nature vs. nurture debate brings people to ask what makes other people the way they are or what makes them the people they grow
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people’s minds frequently. What influences our personal development: nature or nurture‚ or perhaps a bit of both? Both sides of the argument have clear‚ everlasting points‚ which make it very difficult to come to a conclusion. As many know‚ both nature and nurture have huge impacts on our personal development‚ but we have yet to discover whether which one effects us the greatest. When it all comes down to it‚ nature is our genetics. Nature refers to all of the genes and hereditary factors that have an
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The nature versus nurture debate has been around for centuries. It is the argument over whether heredity or the environment has the most impact on human psychological development. In the debate nature refers to human’s genotypes‚ the set of genes inherited from parents. Nurture refers to environment factors an individual is exposed to over time. A phenotype refers to the characteristics resulting from interaction of a genotype with the environment (Carter 192). Generally‚ psychologists argue that
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vocabulary of six-thousand words by the time it turns five years old. It is this ability of language acquisition that is a particularly interesting field in the nature-nurture debate. Is language acquisition and development innate or taught? This debate about nature versus nurture in language acquisition has drawn heated testimony from both sides. Nature? The idea that language acquisition is an innate ability is called ‘nativism’. People supporting this view believe that the human brain is prewired for
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Nature v. Nurture For centuries‚ there has been a psychological debate on what alters and affects a person’s personality and behavior. Is it the pressure of society or the way a parent raises a child that causes a child to develop into a successful adult? Is it the genetic inheritance and biological building blocks that humans are born with that makes a person who he/she is? The things that happen to a person that is beyond the control of a parent is nature. The love‚ compassion‚ and discipline (or
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or he was abused as a child. Nature and nurture are factors that have come to be recognized as playing or interacting roles in development. Nature refers to all the genes and hereditary factors that influences who we are from our personality characteristics to physical appearance. The coding of genes in each cell determines the different traits we have like: eye color‚ hair color‚ ear size‚ height‚ and other traits. However‚ it is still unknown whether
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