The Debate: Nature vs. Nurture What determines someone’s sexuality‚ intelligence‚ mental health‚ athletic ability and other personality traits? The answer to this question has been heavily debated for years‚ and will most likely be debated for more years to come. The debate of nature vs. nurture is one of the largest debates having to do with childhood development. The nature vs. nurture debate brings people to ask what makes other people the way they are or what makes them the people they grow
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people’s minds frequently. What influences our personal development: nature or nurture‚ or perhaps a bit of both? Both sides of the argument have clear‚ everlasting points‚ which make it very difficult to come to a conclusion. As many know‚ both nature and nurture have huge impacts on our personal development‚ but we have yet to discover whether which one effects us the greatest. When it all comes down to it‚ nature is our genetics. Nature refers to all of the genes and hereditary factors that have an
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NATURE VS. NURTURE Is the man the product or what we learn or a predisposition based on our gene pools? Are we limited by our heredity or are we susceptible to our surroundings and upbringing? Nature vs. Nurture? Innate vs. Learned? Even Plato dwelled on this subject‚ one of his most prominent writings‚ “Meno” focused on this very subject. Imagine new parents. They are huddling around their newborn. Their thoughts swirl around the possibilities of what and how their actions will impact
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Nature v. Nurture For centuries‚ there has been a psychological debate on what alters and affects a person’s personality and behavior. Is it the pressure of society or the way a parent raises a child that causes a child to develop into a successful adult? Is it the genetic inheritance and biological building blocks that humans are born with that makes a person who he/she is? The things that happen to a person that is beyond the control of a parent is nature. The love‚ compassion‚ and discipline (or
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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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Great Debate: Nature vs. Nurture Intro The Debate The great nature versus nurture debate is one of the oldest controversial issues. Some people would prefer to call this issue heredity versus environment. To this day‚ psychologists ask whether a child’s development is governed by a pattern built in at birth or if experience shapes a child’s behavior. On the nature side of the philosophical argument‚ theorists believe that learning depends largely on genetics. On the nurture side of the
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The Nature-Nurture Debate The nature-nurture debate is all about whether or not our behaviour stems from our genes or whether the environment around us and the way we are raised is the reason for why we behave in certain ways. Nature is what we are born with‚ the characteristics we inherit from our parents and things that cannot be changed. Nurture is what we learn from the things around us and the environment we are raised and live in. When looking at nature‚ this side of the debate suggests
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Nature versus nurture debate is a psychology term related to whether heredity or the environment most impacts human psychological development (behavior‚ habits‚ intelligence‚ personality‚ sexuality and so on)". Is man a product of his environment or is personality development solely dependent on genetic makeup? Is man a product of his environment or is personality development solely dependent on genetic makeup? What are the reasons that have led to the nurture versus nature debate? What are
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Nature versus Nurture Carolyn Bennett PSY/330 Theories of Personality Maurita Hodge 04/20/2015 Psychology has not been able to explain why the intelligence in individuals is different. The only way to explain the differences is to look at the individuals lifestyle. Their morals‚ their social life‚ their ethics‚ their education‚ and other issues. "The topic of why differences occur in intelligence among different people is a great topic for discussion as it creates a lot of interest and
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debated topics in psychology is the Nature vs Nurture debate. Nature has the effects of the genetics‚ while Nurture has its effects of the environment. To understand which is stronger‚ one must understand the real effects of each. Nature’s effects are simply the foundation and is merely a predisposition; Therefore‚ nurture overcomes these simple effects by carving out one’s true personality. Although‚ personality is determined by both nurture and nature. Nurture is the combination of all the life
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