Nature Vs. Nurture Shapes Personality

There are a plethora of ideas and theories regarding the developmental psychology behind why people metamorphosize into different personalities and habits later in life. Developmental psychologists have developed several ways to try and determine where the determining factors are in peoples’ lives that cause the differences. Several of the theories tend to have overlaps in parts of the ideas such as the ideas of “nature vs nurture” and that of “social context.” These theories share the overlapping ideas that there are outside influences on the way a person turns out in life. While “nature vs nurture” states that there are outside influences, there is also a counterargument that the genetic make-up of a person is the determining factor for how that person develops later. Even still, there are some who also believe that both arguments of “nature vs nurture” have even attributes on the lives of people.

Prologue Question #1 The nature vs nurture issue has been a controversial argument among psychologist for decades. This argument exposes two different views. One of them emphasizes that our personality depends solely on genetics (nature). On the other hand, the second view suggests that humans “develop through experience” (Myers 2013, SG

Susan Evers and Sharon McKendrick, the famous identical twins from the movie The Parent Trap, were separated at a young age by their divorcing parents. Sharon grew up in Boston to a socialite mother while Susan grew up in California on her father’s ranch. Sharon had structure while Susan’s life was very laid back. They looked the same and liked many of the same things, yet their personalities were very different. What is responsible for these differences? Is it simply that they are two different people with different interests and preferences? Or did the environments that they grew up in play a part in making who they are? In the nature vs. nurture controversy, nature proclaims that our genetic make-up plays the primary role in human

Of course, to every argument there has to be two sides. Some scientists argue that the way we are and act is not necessarily all determined by our genes. Believers of this side think that our behavioral aspects are derived from the environment in which we are brought up in. In the theory of nurture, our behaviors are not instinctive, but are learned throughout our lives. For example, we all laugh and cry at different time and under different circumstances. As humans, we learn from our surroundings and are influenced by our peers and parents. Another example of the role of nurture explaining our behaviors is that fact that we learn our fears and phobias. The key difference is that nurture alters itself from the fact that our biological make up is the only explanation for our behavior.

Nature or Nurture. Nature may be all of the genes and hereditary factors with which influence them to become who they are such as physical appearances and personality characteristics. Nurturing impacts people’s lives as well as how they are raised and all the environmental factors. In combination, these qualities can be the true identity of oneself. Many people may argue that nurture appears to a play huge factor in the two, but others may think otherwise. Not having both as a characteristic can have a negative effect on a person physically and mentally. The debate of nature versus nurture appears to be the oldest argument known to man, and it still remains to be unanswered. In the old-age argument nature versus nurture, nature may play a huge role in determining a person’s true identity.

INTRODUCTION Nature Vs Nurture centers on how much of a person’s biological, cognitive, personal and social development can be attributed to either the genetic (hereditary) determinism i.e. nature or the environmental determinism i.e. nurture.

Have you ever noticed that you might act like your parents? Or maybe that your personality has changed over your lifetime? People have been debating about the nature versus nurture debate for a long time, and some think nature or genetics plays the bigger role in shaping personality, but some say nurture or society does. Nature and nurture both play a big part in determining what our personality will be. Identical twins have many differences. Your personality can change through your life because of the way you were raised. Studies show that nurture is much more dominant than nature is. Nurture is much more dominant in shaping personality than nature.

Which is the most influential and/or powerful influence, nature or nurture? I believe that nurture is in fact, the most developing influence between the two. I believe this because nurture develops a kids future. nature is just genetics. However, nurture, is when you get older and you pick up hobbies along the way and change, which is a lot of years ahead in your life. In conclusion, nurture takes the majority of years when growing up, which means it is stronger and is growing while nature is shrinking (in genetics and real life).

What is meant by storage decay when it comes to forgetting? (Memory) When we learn something new, we begin to forget rapidly before what we retain levels off. Reasons for why this may be happening is because we never encoded the memory, decaying of stored memory, or because the physical memory

“Twins have been the heart and soul of the nature versus nurture debate for over a century” (Plicher 1). Scientists and psychologists believe that because identical twins share 100% of the same genes, that studying twins, would benefit in proving the theory. Twins that are separated at birth end up living in different environments. Because they grow up differently, scientists and psychologists are able to analyze the genetic and environmental influences that shape the twins personalities. Even though the discussion of the nature versus nurture topic has not yet been proven, some feel nurture wins. The study of twins contributes to the debate of nature versus nurture and whether the environment or genetics affects the development of personality.

I believe that nurture has a lot to do with the development of a human, but nature has a larger impact in determining personality traits and the make up of a person. A human is born with certain characteristics and even though their nurture may influence these characteristics to change or be enhanced, their genes have a large influence on how they will live their life.

Nature and nurture have both affected me in one way or another. Nurture seems like it plays a bigger role in my life. When I wanted to join track my parents would help me with what I needed. They said that if I wanted to I could do it and they always tried to get me to run more but I didn't need to run because after a little bit I wanted to run even more. An example of both nature and nurture would be school both my parents were good in school so when I was born I had some intelligence but they both want me to do better than them in school so they hold my grades above all else. Nature also played a role in me joining track because both my parents did track in high school they were both very good at short distance so am I.

To be honest I believe that nature and nurture are both contributing factors to your life and personality. For example in this quote. “The study, published in Nature Genetics, reviewed almost every twin study done in the last 50 years and found that 49% of the average variation for human traits and diseases were down to genetics, and the other 51% were due to environmental factors. When visiting the nature versus nurture debate, there is overwhelming evidence that both genetic and environmental factors can influence traits and diseases," said lead researcher Dr. Beben Benyamin, from the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), in a statement. "The findings show that we need to look at ourselves outside of a view of nature versus nurture, and instead look at it as nature and nurture.” (IFLScience.) This study supports my argument by bringing things together instead of keeping them apart. One thing that we as humans do is always separate things so we can identify ourselves separately because it is easier to process. What we should be doing is try to study things as a whole first instead of separately the first time given the opportunity to do

The two terms nature and nurture seem to have created quite a controversy in the world of psychology. While one person may believe that a person’s personality is based solely on their upbringing and experienced environmental settings, nurture, others believe that a person’s personality is something they are born with and inherit, nature. Debates whether one is more accurate over the other seem to be endless but, which one is it?

The discussion between nature and nurture is quite complex for the fact that nature is determined by genes (DNA), on the other hand, the nurture believes that the behaviour is learnt by experiences and are divided between social and physical influences. Psychodynamic perspective assumes