Nature-Nurture Debate

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The Nature versus Nurture debate concerns the relative importance of an individual's innate qualities versus personal experiences in determining or causing differences in physical and behavioral traits. (Ridley, Matt. "What Makes You Who You Are." Time Magazine. 25 May 2003).

One of the huge problems with the nature vs. nurture debate is that people often forget to include religion, beliefs, and God into the discussion. Religion, especially Christianity, plays a large role in the development of a person, being in part nature and nurture. Several people grow up believing God is real and He loves and nurtures everyone, and this can in turn give them an instinct to care and nurture others. But God also gives each person a natural instinct to love and protect others because He created mankind in His likeness, and His love is endless. The article Nature vs Nurture – Which Side is God On? makes the point that “God did not create us to be bad (it’s our nature). Nor does God provide an environment for us where we have to

On November 15, 1959, four members of the prosperous Clutter family were murdered for seemingly no reason. This led many people to come up with their own ideas of what happened that night. This debate may be answered by psychology. One question that psychologists have is whether people are controlled more by their nature-genetics-or nurture-how they were raised (Mcleod 1). This debate can be used to discuss the motive of murderers, and argue for or against the death penalty in their case. Richard ¨Dick¨ Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, the ¨Clutter Killers,¨ are a perfect example of the nature vs. nurture debate. Perry was more influenced by nurture, while Dick was more influenced by nature.

Three things that I find interesting were nature verses nurture controversy because we as a human being always look at one side and make a huge deal of the stuff for example, negative behavior often credit to neighborhoods and environment. We do not see the nature affects the nurture and nurture affects the nature. Another one was genetic links because we do inherit certain gene from our parent for example, my mom is allergic to beef meat so as I and therefore, I’m unable to digest too. Next is outdoor play because playing has nothing to with vision especially when people believe watching TV constantly can dim our vision because many children in developing countries do not have access to television or internet and still got problems with

There has been an ongoing debate on nature versus nurture that has been around for years. What determines our identity? Our biological nature or the things we grew up around? The answers to these questions still remain uncertain, but are still widely discussed. Deborah Blum shares her opinions on these issues in “Gender Blur”. In her writing, she challenges where we separate biology from society. While our biological nature determines our gender, our surroundings and the things we are exposed to make up our true identity.

Many psychologists have been debating if the nature-nurture controversy contributes to intelligence. Some psychologists today approve that both genetic and environment plays a part in determining intelligence. Twin study method is studying identical and fraternal twins to discover the relative effects of inheritance and environment on a diversity of attributes. The best method to evaluate the relative contribution of heredity and environment is to examine identical twins who have been separated and raised apart. With the twin study method researchers, Bouchard have studied approximately 60 pairs of fraternal twins and 80 pairs of identical twins who were reared apart. Bouchard have found the heritability of IQ to be 0.60 to 0.70, which

1. Some people have argued that the Johns Hopkins psychologist used this opportunity as an experiment to test his nurture theory of gender identity. What are the expected results of this experiment, assuming that the nurture theory is valid?

Even though some people just act a certain way because that is how they are, like my brother. He usually always acts rude because that is how he is. The person you are is determined by the people you hang out with, because I have personally done this before and it is not because I'm a liar it is because that is how they know me and I would act more jokingly or more passionate towards them because they are a different person, I have noticed things like this in my time on this earth. People can act differently around other people if you paid close enough attention to them, and As my grandfather always said, "You show me your friends I will tell you what type of person you are." and I believe him because if you do notice that

The Nature versus Nurture issue (printed page 5, e-book) is one that I’ve always found intriguing because I can easily understand arguments on both sides. I often think about my older sister in comparison to myself, we are merely three years apart in age but we are almost complete opposites. I’m outspoken and assertive, she’s shy and submissive. I value hard work and doing things independently, she constantly needs and asks for help and validation and would just rather someone do things for her. We have certain physical traits that certainly show we share genetic material, we have the same one sided dimple when we smile and the same freaky long, dexterous monkey-toes. And obviously we were raised similarly, in the same house with the same

The debate between nature and nurture is a “long-standing controversy over the relative contribution that gene and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors” (6, Myers). In this paper, one will examine both sides of the argument providing supportive historical thought provoking ideas by major influential figures. In conclusion, one will state one 's position in regard to the issue.

For more than a century, researchers and psychologists, such as Sir Francis Galton, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and many others, have been trying to understand how people are transformed by their environment. Researchers have mainly argued whether it is in fact our environment or rather genetics, our biological pre-wiring, which has influenced human behavior. This concept ultimately facilitated what is now known as the Nature versus Nurture debate. The Nature aspect states that human behavior is predetermined by our inherited genes or is the product of our innate behavior. The Nurture side of the disagreement postulates that human behavior stems from acquired attributes through individual learning and experiences. Correspondingly, the Object Relations Theory in psychoanalytic psychology supports the position that a person’s natural environment (i.e. family, peers, acquaintances, society) forms human development. The Object Relations theory stresses that it is the relationships between people, more specially family, often between mother and child, that crafts the human psyche.

Nature and Nurture both create the various personalities and physical appearances unique to everyone. However, with the progression of technology and medical understanding, a century long debate was born in which the question was asked, “does Nature or Nurture create who we are?” The argument presented by the side that argues nature is what creates who we are is that all a person’s characteristics are determined by their genes. On the other hand, the argument presented by the side that argues nurture is what creates who we are is that all a person’s characteristics are determined by their environmental interactions. This paper examines the correlation between mental health and the nature vs nurture debate. Through secondary research, it was