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    Have you ever been asked if you believe in Nature vs Nurture and which one do you believe in? Nature vs Nurture is an ongoing debate; the modern debate centers around the genes of a human. Nurture shapes us more influential than nature because when a person is born their mind hasn’t been developed‚ and also because the person doesn’t know what right for wrong until they start growing up. Nurture is more important because the environment shapes you more then when you were born because when you’re

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    Do you think you have the same personality now as before? Do you think about how you got your personality? The nature vs nurture debate is an important argument about if genetics and DNA or if parenting and experiences affect your personality. Both nature and nurture are a big effect on creating personality. Where identical twins get their differences‚ is on the side of nurture. Experiences have made many personalities change through life. Nurture is a bigger role in life than nature through studies

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    The nature/nurture debate is a debate that I did not learn much about until I was in college. Before college‚ I was mostly taught that it is either nature or nurture. The main points of the nature/nurture debate was discussed in class. There are people that think the nature/nurture debate as one or the other. Nativists are people who believe in nature. They believe everything that a human is made up of is determined by genes only; genetic determinism. There are people who believe that everything

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    Genes and hormones can affect the way you live and so can your surroundings growing up. This has a name‚ which is the nature and nurture theory. These theories affect numerous amounts of people in the way they live their daily lives. It is an exceptionally interesting topic to talk about since scientists studied it more and realized it was a true theory. The nature theory‚ one of the two theories‚ is the belief that your hormones or genes cause certain behaviors. This basically means the person

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    Nature vs. Nurture this debate has been adamantly debated since the beginning of time. There is Nature‚ which states who we are is determined before birth‚ and there is Nurture which states that who we are is based on the environment in which we are raised. John Locke and british empiricists believed that all people were born with a tabula rasa and only experience could establish the behavorial traits of a person..B. F. Skinner also in a way saw every living animal as a blank slate. He knew

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    Nature vs. Nurture Debate There is an issue that has been conferred upon by philosophers in the past and still so by scientists today. This issue is whether heredity or environment plays a greater role in the determining or shaping of an individual’s behavior. It is known as the nature versus nurture debate. Numerous generations before us have deliberated on the reasons behind the development of human behavior. There have been many theories formulated to explain why humans behave the way

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    Nature Vs. Nurture Things in life can happen from effect of heredity and environment. Nature‚ is from heredity‚ which is basically things that you get from your parents. Nurture‚ is the effect of the environment. Everything around you can affect you in both positive and negative ways. An example of a thing that is effected by nature is a talent. Things like musical skills are usually brought by parents. Reasearches has shown that parents who plays instruments will have children who has a musical

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    makes people do inexplicable‚ terrible‚ socially unacceptable acts of violence? This question brings to mind the age old psychological theory‚ Nature vs. Nurture. Are people born predisposed for violence? Is there something genetically different about serial killers and murderers? Can their behavior be explained by a difference in their very make-up? Or are they made violent by seeing violence‚ having un-supportive and demanding parents‚ being mentally‚ sexually‚ and physically abused? Nature vs. nurture

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    Brittani Chmielewski Nature vs. Nurture Are you born with aggression or is aggression something that is learned from your surroundings? This debate it called Nature vs. Nurture. I believe that anger is something that is learned and something you pick up from watching people and things around you. I also believe you can take a situation that you are witnessing aggression and turn it around and learn from it so you don’t follow the same way. Aggression can be scary but it fixable and preventable

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    it’s the individual’s “Nature”‚ or‚ in other words‚ how the person was born. While some kids are very adaptable‚ some kids aren’t as fortunate and their neighborhood may have a major impact in their adult life. Others say that it’s the environment that influences their success‚ this is the “Nurture” theory. Being affluent and and frail are big factors in the nurture theory. The “Nature” theory is arguing that individuals are born with a bad behavior‚ and has nothing to do with the environment the

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