ENG 2001 Peter O’neil Ses Oner Nature vs Nurture One day while I was reading an article called “Nature Nurture in Psychology” written by Saul Mcleod published by the website “simplypsychology.org” in 2007 I was deeply entruiged by the argument. Are the things we do in life coming from our surroundings or are we the way we are the day that we’re born? The article defines and answers all questions or curiosities we had about this subject and supports each and every one of them with psychological
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D1: Evaluate how nature and nurture may affect the physical‚ intellectual‚ emotional and social development for two life stages of an individual Infants Physical: Nature – • Infants grow rapidly in the first 3 years of life; they are born with certain characteristics such as blue eyes‚ blonde hair. These characteristics are genetic as they are passed on from their parents to them. Nurture- • However an infant’s growth is predominantly determined by the nutrients that they receive. If an
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Psychology M2 A2 Nature versus Nurture Erickson’s psychosocial theory adds perspective to why identical twins‚ Linda and Lydia‚ turned out differently (Feldman 2010). Linda was raised by a family in the rural west‚ while Lydia went to a family in the urban south. These are two very different situations filled with different socioeconomical environments (Feldman 2010). The differences in the girls’ social environment could have had huge influence on their cognitive development (Feldman 2010). We
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is probably because of nature or nurture. Nature is how you act or how you look and act by genetics usually from your parents. Nurture is usually how you act but sometimes how you look by how you were treated usually when you were younger. Nature and nurture are both key components on how you look and act. I believe that nurture has the most important role in how you act and look. Nature is the genetics usually that come from your parents that can affect how you act or how you look. Anals and Sam
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Nature V. Nurture Nature versus nurture has been one of the most commonly argued topics ever since the dawn of time. Several great philosophers have argued that certain qualities of human behavior are inborn‚ which means that these qualities are a part of our genes. This is called nature. Others believe in the ideology that several environmental factors‚ primarily education and parenting‚ affect the human behavior. This is nurture. So which way of thinking is
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The Nature-Nurture Debate Psychologists argue about whether a human’s development is more related to the environment (nature) or the people that surround a developing person (nurture). An example of the nature aspect of this debate is attributing a person’s affliction with a mental illness to genetics because that person’s mother or father was also afflicted with the same mental illness. An example of the nurture aspect of this debate is a person’s decision to live on the streets and join a gang
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There are many factors that can affect a baby’s growth and development before birth‚ one of these factors is drinking during pregnancy. This can cause foetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). This is a group of conditions that can occur in a person whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy. These effects can include physical problems with behaviour and learning. FASDs are caused by a woman drinking alcohol during pregnancy; alcohol in the mother’s blood passes to the baby through the umbilical
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One external factor that could affect a child’s development is poverty and deprivation. This splits into 5 categories; diet‚ housing‚ education‚ play & leisure opportunities and aspirations & expectations. If a child is born into a family of low-income‚ the 5 categories above tend to be negatively affected due to a lack of money and opportunities. A poor diet‚ for example‚ can mean that children are fed an unhealthy diet of processed food‚ meaning they are not as healthy and they are unlikely to
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According to the article Nature vs. Nurture‚“ Nature is that which is inherited /genetic; Nurture which refers to all environmental influences after conception‚ i.e. experience” (Mcleod‚ 2007). Every living thing is born with some sort of genetics that they inherit from mates; so as we mature‚ we depend and learn from the environment. My view on nature is what we inherit from our parents; eye color‚ height‚ hair texture‚ skin color etc. Nature is anything that is not manmade. We then use what we
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Lawrence Kohlberg conducted research on the moral development of children. He wanted to understand how they develop a sense of right or wrong and how justice is served. Kohlberg used surveys in which he included moral dilemmas where he asked the subjects to evaluate a moral conflict. Through his studies‚ Kohlberg observed that moral growth and development precedes through stages such as those of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development. He theorized that moral growth begins at the beginning of
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