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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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    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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    What is the Flynn Effect‚ and how does it relate to the nature vs nurture intelligence debate? The Flynn Effect was named after James Flynn discovered the effect. It describes how every decade IQ points go up by 3 points and how the average IQ has risen one deviation all over the world since World War II (Niesser 1977). This relates in the nature vs. nurture intelligence debate because people are trying to figure out why humans seem to be getting smarter and whether it’s because we are a product

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    Nature Vs. Nurture When we first started learning about the age old question of nature vs. nurture‚ I agreed with the concept of nature. I hated the idea of nurture‚ that no one is truly unique. I was against that. I liked to think that everyone is individual. But then as I thought more about it‚ I started to not like the idea of Nature. That we dont have a choice in who we are‚ that it has all been decided for us. I was thinking about a lot of things that could affect how someone is.

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    Nature Vs. Nurture Several people have disagreed for years on whether people develop the way they do‚ due to the way they were raised or because of the genes they were born with. The Nature perspective is the thought of being the way one is solely on their genes. While the Nurture perspective is the thought of being who one is because of the way the individual was raised. Through reading many studies and through personal life experience I believe nature has a greater impact on who you are than

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    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 is one of the most sought after answers in the field of psychology

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    drives a person to be successful? Some say that 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

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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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    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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    Checkpoint: Nature vs. Nurture Axia College/University of Phoenix Psy/240 Instructor‚ Susan Forde‚ PhD July 26‚ 2011 Nature vs. Nurture presents the theory of pro-nature and pro-nurture (Pinel‚ 2007). Psychologist of Behavior tend to believe in a pro-nurture world this thought implies that the human species is under the power

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