Are we a product of Nature or Nurture? Direct Selection: • One extreme favoured – current optimum for existing conditions • Environmental change produce new selection pressure - favours extreme condition • Change in condition = optimum sifts to favour new optimum • Some organism possess allele that favours new optimum • Over time selection -> pre dominate of organisms new optimum and therefore optimum shifts Stabilising Selection: • Occurs in all population where environment is stable
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There is a big controversy between whether inherited genes or the environment influences and effects our personality‚ development‚ behavior‚ intelligence and ability. This controversy is most often recognized as the nature verses nurture conflict. Some people believe that it is strictly genes that effect our ways of life‚ others believe that it is the environment that effects us‚ and some believe that both of these influence us. Either way‚ social scientists have been struggling for centuries deciding
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The argument of nature vs. nurture has been argued for thousands of years on whether someone’s future is determined by how they are raised or their DNA coding. As we read through Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ we see the Creature being created and exploring life‚ he turns for the worse towards the middle of the novel and the problems keep piling up. The cruel treatment received from the world throughout the novel is what makes the Creature turn against society. In the beginning of the novel when
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In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein the Creature is born peaceful‚ but because of society and Victor he becomes violent. It was the duty of Victor to protect‚ love‚ and nurture the Creature after he brought it to life just as those would be a parent’s duty to their children. Society shuns the Creature in every situation because of his external appearance which shapes the perceptions of the creature. Victor’s first reaction to the Creature is to abandon it‚ and like children that are abandoned‚ this
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Hallum1 Nature – Nurture is a debate in Psychology that can be seen everywhere‚ today. Going through public schooling‚ you see the results of the nature-nurture issue all too much and with both of my parents working in the public school system‚ I see the results even more in students they work with. I can think of so many young people off the top of my head that are victims of not enough nurturing. A lot of students today act out‚ misbehave and cry out for attention because they don’t get the nurturing
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Nature is the influence of the inherited or acquired trait that comes by way of genetics; it is what is born into you by way of your genetic make-up. Likewise‚ Nurture is a trait that is acquired by way of environmental influences. Both are in conflict‚ therefore causing much controversy and many a debate throughout the study of psychology. Behaviorist John B. Watson believed that anything can be learned. But‚ if a child is born of a drug addict‚ is he genetically predisposed to become a drug addict
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The way in which a person grows and develops is determined by how we are nurtured throughout our life. The article What Is Nature Versus Nurture by Kendra Cherry said “John Locke believed in what is known as Tabula Rasa‚ which suggests that the mind begins as a blank space.” In plain english this means that when we are born we have the potential to be anyone and it will be determined by our experiences. This means that our environment may turn us into a good samaritan or even an evil killer (couch
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wrong or so the parent’s had thought. He had mistakenly burnt off the penis of one of the twin brothers while doing the procedure and that’s when Dr. Money’s ulterior motive had begun. Dr. Money had a purpose since he solely believed nurture was more significant than nature in his point of view when it was related to the gender roles. One of the twins who had the accidental surgery was born as Bruce Reimer then later became Brenda after the sex reassignment surgery
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Nature and nurture Developing psychology- the specialized study of how an individual’s physical‚ social‚ emotional‚ moral‚ and intellectual‚ development occur in sequential interrelated stages throughout the life cycle. Some psychologist believe that our behavior is a result or genetic or they were inherited Others believe that life experiences and learning are what cause certain behaviors Newborns Can see‚ hear‚ smell‚ and respond to their environment Grasping reflex- if you were to
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apprehended only when viewed as a bipartite entity of culture and individuality‚ is both inaccurate and oblique. Scientifically‚ the nature vs. nurture conundrum does indeed indicate the influence that both identity and customs have on a person that is an appendage of a larger conglomerate. However‚ what it fails to bring across is the central facet of how nature and nurture work against each other and not in accord; the original thesis that this entire discussion bases itself on is the idea that human
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