Which Has More of an Influence on Intelligence: Nature or Nurture? written by: Sonal Panse • edited by: Emma Lloyd • updated: 7/22/2010 Are you a product of your genes or your environment? What determines your intellect? Find out more about this issue to make your own decision. The Debate The nature versus nurture debate ponders over the question whether it is our genes that determine who we are and the qualities we possess‚ or if it is the environment in which we are raised that
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supported these findings and extended them to show that intelligence tests appear able to predict performance in almost all jobs in all cultures. 1. Explain the related psychological phenomenon or theory in general. Nature vs. Nurture Debate in regard to Intelligence. The nature vs.
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Learning Paper Temeshia T. Jordan Learning Paper Even though there are many debates concerning the concept of learning‚ current arguments between psychologists suggest that nurture versus nature are two concepts extremely important in human development. The following paper will define the concept of learning and distinguish between learning and performance. Next‚ I will compare and contrast the conceptual approaches to the study of learning. In closing‚ the major points throughout
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is filled with controversy and debate. All of the uncertainties and unanswered questions even push interest in the field. These questions provoke deep thought about why humans behave the way they do‚ where we learned these behaviors‚ how we learned them‚ and more. However‚ almost all of the smaller arguments can be grouped into one big debate: nature versus nurture. It asks if the way we behave comes from nature – the genes we inherit from our parents when we are born – or nurture – the ways in which
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Bibliography: American Psychiatric Association. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV. Washington‚ DC: American Psychiatric Association‚ 1994. Bronfenbrenner‚ Urie. The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design. Cambridge‚ MA: Harvard University Press‚ 1979. Efran‚ Jay‚ Mitchell Greene‚ and Robert Gordon. "Lessons of the New Genetics." Family Therapy Networker 22 (1998):26-41. Locke‚ John. "Some Thoughts concerning Education." In R. H. Quick ed
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Short-Answer Responses 1. Based on your readings from Ch. 3 of the textbook and your personal experience‚ would you say that pop culture affects individuality? If so‚ how? Pop culture absolutely affects individuality. It permeates our society to where it shapes the actions and behaviors of whole communities. We are products of our environment for pop culture subversively guides our decisions‚ our morals‚ and influences heavily what we like and dislike. In reading the steps to starting to realize
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ionD1 – Evaluate how nature and nurture may affect the physical‚ intellectual‚ emotional and social development The development of an individual can be down to different aspects such as physical‚ intellectual‚ emotional and social development; these effects can be due to nature or nurture or quite possibly both. ‘The nature versus nurture debate has been a classic controversy among experts for centuries’ (www.macalester.edu)‚ even now there has been no clear conclusion as to who is right and
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HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT The nature versus nurture controversy— that is‚ how much of our behavior is due to inherited factors and how much to environmental factors Heredity is the passing of traits to offspring (from its parent or ancestors). Biology affects behavior also through mechanisms of heredity regulated by genetic principles. Researchers in the field called behavioral genetics study‚ through both family and twin studies‚ the way in which genetic factors affect behavioral traits. In family
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given to intelligence as a concept from various cultures and sciences. Intelligence can be classified in two ways one way is fluid intelligence and the other is crystalized intelligence. Fluid intelligence is closely tied to biology as well as nature and is responsible for our quick thinking abilities. An example of fluid intelligence would be thinking of an escape route to flee a burning house or ripping the peel off a banana to eat it. While fluid intelligence requires us to act upon
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The quote states that development is orderly and changes are results of the combination of experience and maturation‚ some theories go in depth as to explain the views of development and how it affects individuals‚ such theories are the Nature-Nurture Controversy and Continuous and Discontinuous theories. The first principle is that growth and development occur in an orderly‚ sequential way
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