NATURE Nature is a genetic inheritance or a genetic code a person inherits from both parents at the time of conception and they will carry it throughout their life. Some things a person can inherit from their parents are gender‚ blood type‚ hair color‚ eye color‚ risks for certain diseases and cancers‚ and height. Genetics influenced my development in a big way. One example of how nature influenced my development is‚ both of my parents are short‚ and unfortunately I inherited the genes of being short
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talent. The question of nature versus nurture has not reached the answer yet. It is true that a person can be taught to become anyone they would like to‚ for example a sport player or a musician. There are many people still get success in their career without having sporting or musical genes. This is because they approach to a good training and they know how to make use of it. Moreover‚ practicing helps them to enhance their skills to a certain level to be successful. That’s why it is said that with
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Different personality traits make us who we are today. There are many factors to our personalities and each aspect illustrates a bigger picture of who we are and how we came to be. Openness to experience is a factor of the Five Factor Model (FFM) that describes my personality and is an essential part of who I am in this society. Openness utilizes active imagination‚ attentiveness to inner feelings‚ intellectual curiosity‚ interest in variety‚ and interest in aesthetics. It is used to display a general
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A long debate‚ are you made who you are or born that way. Nature vs Nurture has been a long debate where psychologists and biologist are trying to figure out if you are made into the person you are or born‚ there is many different documented cases and experiments along with a long study on criminals to decide if what they did was purely biological or previous events made them do it. In recent history scientists have focused on aspects of intelligence‚ aggression and sexual orientation. But when
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Laurissa Hirshbeel Child and Adolescent 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
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Nature or Nurture? Hannibal Lecter was a young boy that grew up during a horrible time period; World War II. Everyone around him died‚ and was left by himself with his little sister Mischa. During this time there was people pretending to be "help" but in reality they were robbers. These people took over the cabin where the Lecter family was hiding. They take hostage Hannibal and Mischa. Over a few weeks food starts getting harder and harder to find‚ they are struggling to find food to eat and they
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The causes of a criminal Mind Nature versus Nurture In today’s society‚ one will find that there are many different factors that go into the development of a criminal mind‚ and it is impossible to single out one particular cause of criminal behavior. Criminal behavior often stems from both biological and environmental factors. In many cases criminals share similar physical traits which the general population do not usually have. For example criminals have smaller brains than properly adjusted
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What is nurture vs. nature? According to dictionary.com the definition of nurture is to support and encourage‚ as during the period of training or development; foster; and nature means the material world‚ especially as surrounding humankinds and existing independently of human activities. When you first hear the word nurture what’s the first thing that comes to mind? This word can mean a lot of things when you observe the definition of this word. While reading different articles they all seem to
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Those on the nature side believe we are a product of our genes and heredity. On the nurture side‚ it is believed we are the product of our environment‚ affected by our entire bioecological system. We are actually affected by both. A person can have the greatest genes in the world‚ but have neglectful parents
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topic in psychology‚ the “nature versus nurture” debate. It is a debate whether human behavior‚ attitude‚ and personalities is the result of biological/genetic factors (nature) or is it life experiences and what we learn/reflect from them (nurture). It is impossible to know for sure if it is nature or if it is nurture affects a person’s behavior more maybe it is a mix of both that decides or suggests an individual’s behavior. There also a possibility if neither nature or nurture affects the person’s behavior
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