Nature Versus Nurture

There has always been a large controversy over whether inherited genes or the environment influences and affects our personality, development, behavior, intelligence and ability. This controversy is most often recognized as the nature verses nurture conflict. Does how you are raised affect your views as an adult more than what your genetic codes dictate? If…

For the past five weeks we have studied three different but influential people in our perspective on human nature class. They are Freud, Plato and Tzu. The main discussion between all of them is nature versus nurture. I will discuss the difference between nature and nurture and then I’ll apply to each of these philosophers…

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…

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…

The relative contributions of nature and nurture are an apparent part of human development which makes us ask the question, are heredity and environment opposing forces?(Sternberg 100) The question of nature vs. nurture can be examined and can be attempted to be comprehended in many ways. Our stand on which theory is the correct one…

The dubious history of the heredity environment controversy can beeasily traced as far back as the start of the present century with at least some historical evidence placing the roots of this dispute in the time of John Locke. This controversy has continued despite continual reiteration that the critical question is not how much of…

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…