1970’s Olympic gymnasts Social Psychology – Nature vs. Nurture Task Q1. The nature nurture discussion The nature nurture discussion is one of the oldest psychology issues and has been discussed between psychologists and famous philosophers such as Plato and Descartes for many years about wether your behaviour is more influenced by genetics or environmental influences. They argued about the idea that your personality is either the result of traits you inherited from your parents, or it been…
Nature vs. Nurture The nature versus nurture debate is one of the oldest debates in psychology. The nature aspect, which is the more scientific theory of the two, is the idea that genes have a greater impact on a person’s development. The nurture aspect is centered around if a person’s environment has a more significant impact on a person’s development. Scientists know for a fact that eye color, hair color, height, and other similar traits are in our genetic makeup. However, there is no way for…
Nature is Nurture In life, we wonder where do the best qualities that belong to us come from. Do we get them from our parents or are we a product of our environment? In today’s world, we most likely get them from both, but for this paper I am going to delve more into what makes me who I am. Hopefully through this essay I will be able to show who I am and where my most prominent features of both nature and nurture come from. This is going to delve more into my world than I let most people see…
In the world of psychology the brain and the person is effected by nurture the most out of nurture and nature. Nurture means that you were raised around a good or bad environment, which will show how you act and why you act that way. According to What is Nature Versus Nurture by Kendra Cherry “ when a person achieves tremendous academic success they do because it’s a result of an enriched environment,”. Some people don 't live in an area that 's good for success so they don 't know the steps…
Nature and Nurture has been a highly dubious topic over the past years, the concept that raised in 1896 by Francis Galton, a British Psychologist. Galton found interest in eugenics, among many other titles such as: explorer, psychometrician, meteorologist and more. (Origin ). Galton was influenced by Darwin, LaPace, and Gauss. (The Human Intelligence: Francis Galton) Galton believed that the Nature behalf of the theory originates from DNA, that the way we behave in our everyday lives are…
autism, causes a person to struggle behaviorally and socially. These struggles can profoundly affect a person’s ability to develop mentally. The nature vs nurture debate can be applied to genetic disorders not only because these disorders are caused by genetics (nature) but also because they can cause a negative social environment for the suffer (nurture). The treatment, or lack thereof, a person receives for his or her disorder profoundly affects the quality of life these people will have in…
and in some circumstances they end up the same, and some instances they end up completely different. But here 's the reality, twins, particularly those twins who are separated at birth, are crucial to unfolding the answer in the debate of nature versus nurture. So the question is, is one a blank slate, the by product of the exclusive,individually unique environment, or the commodity of genes? How similar are twins methodically? There are two types…
Environments can shape things like our behavior or our personality. Nature refers to what you inherit from your parents or your genes. Nurture refers to the environment influences. In the 1950’s, homosexuality was actually considered a mental illness. Finally, after a lot of psychological tests, in 1975 homosexuality was no longer a mental illness. Richard Pilliard’s research discovered that homosexuality is nature, not nurture. “Among the most notable were a series of studies Pillard and J.…
How do nature and nurture interact to produce cognitive development? According to Bartels et al. (2002), including ages 5,7,10, and 12, genetics are influential primarily through a common factor contributing exclusively to stability.Shared environmental factors strained a significant influence on stability and instability (Petrill, Lipton, Hewitt, etc.). Cognitive development is influenced both by individual’s inherited traits and by their environment. Most psychologists take both the nature…
Nature versus nurture is a wide know debate, asking what human nature is based on, what you are born with or how you are raised. Some believe that evilness is in your human nature and that you are born with it. Nature is genetics. A person’s nature is their height, size, hair, eyes, and race. Also, nature is instincts, behaviors that are formed without learning, evolved as an adaption to specific situations. But, others believe that you are born with nothing and evil is a result of the way you…