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What Is Nature Or Nurture

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Nature vs Nurture

Human behaviour is based upon Nurture, how you’re taught or learn as you go. I don’t believe anyone is born a certain way. I believe you’re taught how to act/behave as you go/grow. People are affected by others and how they see them behave to learn how they should behave. Even if someone else doesn’t think someone should behave that way it’s what you learned to do based on your surroundings.(”Because of you I am afraid”-Because of You: Kelly Clarkson) If someone has taught you to always be afraid, whether it’s fear of something/someone or doing something that seems scary then you’ll continue to be afraid. Certain things people do that might not be right may seem right to someone because it’s what …show more content…

There are two that I’ve learned about that are good examples of this, they are the Little Albert experiment and the Stanford Prison experiment. In the Little Albert experiment they took a nine-month old infant and taught it fear by scaring it with a loud noise every time it touched a stuffed rat or dog when before it had no fear touching these objects. They taught him fear so that he was scared of these objects even after months had passed, this fear stuck with him. Then there’s the Stanford Prison experiment which made these normal college students act and behave differently than they normally would because of the situation they were put in. They got 24 middle class, white male college students and randomly assigned them either prisoner or guard. There were three small cells housing 3 men each and one solitary confinement room for those who didn’t listen. They got into their characters even when none of them had been prisoners or guards but that was their roles so they had to. This experiment shows how powerful the effect of these roles can have on people’s behaviour. Both of these experiments show how what you’re taught and the situations you’re in can affect your

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