Nature Versus Nurture

Over the past five weeks, our human nature class has focused on three significant figures: Freud, Plato, and Tzu. These philosophers have all explored the concept of nature versus nurture. In the following analysis, I will examine and compare their distinct perspectives on differentiating between nature and nurture. According to the dictionary, “nature” encompasses both…

A major portion of psychology’s career has been passed with psychologists taking a double-sided and double-minded approach in the nature versus nurture debate.  As a rule, the greatest numbers of psychologists have believed that both heredity and environment play balanced roles in shaping human characters.  An individual with a brain disorder may show psychopathic traits…

The question of whether heredity and environment are opposing forces is an inherent aspect of human development that urges us to contemplate the relative influences of nature and nurture (Sternberg 100). The debate on nature vs. nurture can be comprehended and approached in different manners. Determining which theory is correct, and if only one of…

Nature vs. Nurture is the controversial debate among Social Scientists about which one has a greater influence over the development of a human. Nature is the influence of inherited biological characteristics on human behavior as well as the influence of our genes. Our genes design an orderly sequence of biological growth processes called maturation. At…

Is Lady Gaga right? Were we all born this way? Or are we all really products of our environment? Did God make us the way we are? Or, do we become who we are through knowledge and experience? If these seem like familiar questions, that’s because they are. These are the fundamental questions surrounding the…

Nature is when a person is influenced by the inherited genes and nurture is when a person is influenced by the environment and surroundings. One example of nature would be, when a person has brown hair color naturally and he/she nurtures it by changing the color to black. Clearly the black hair color was inherited…

Theories of Human Behavior: The Nature/Nurture Debate What determines how a person will behave? Is it nature, or nurture? Or, more simply stated, is it genetics or environment that have the greatest influence on human behavior? The nature versus nurture debate is one of the oldest issues in psychology. The “nurture” perspective comes from the…

The issue of nature versus nurture has been around for years, and still it has not been resolved which of the two has greater effect on a person. Scientists on both sides conducted research and experiments and they have supported their findings with good reasons as to why nature – heredity, or nurture–environment is the…

The childhood development nature versus nurture debate continues to grow. Is a child’s development influenced primarily by genetics and biological predisposition? Or, could it be environment? The nature and nurture question is possibly one of the oldest theories debated in psychology (University of Phoenix, 2004). Nature which is also known as heredity is the genetic…

In the ongoing debate concerning nature versus nurture, there has been a longstanding argument regarding whether our personality and behavior are determined by innate biology or life experiences (Pinker, 2004). This discussion is commonly referred to as the nature nurture debate. The perspective aligned with nature asserts that our identity and characteristics originate from inherent…