...that I have chose to write about are; parenting style, nature-nurture issue, influence, need for achievement, and also generativity-versus-stagnation stage. I have chosen to write about these five concepts because I feel that each of them has given me the foundations on which I have built my life and helped shape me into to person I am today. I first chose parenting style, I was raised by my grandparents and they were what I would consider permissive parents for the most part they gave us freedom and required little from us however, they did show us that responsibility was a very big part of life and the earlier we learn it the better we will accept it when we enter adulthood. They made having responsibility somewhat fun by helping us with chores and homework, and the feeling that I got from knowing that they were happy with me and proud of me really reinforced that if I were to show the same responsibility for other aspects of my life I could achieve anything I set my mind to. The next concept I chose would be the nature-nurture issue, this affected my life because I felt that both nature and nurture played a part in my growing up. By nature of my family, excluding one of my parents, I was naturally hard working, determined, easy-going, and fun. Growing up in my family you can see each of these traits in everyone, and I feel that it is in our nature to exhibit these characteristics. I can say the same for the nurture aspect, form an early age we are shown through the elders that...
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...Kristin Mason PSY 215-91 Assignment 1 While scientists argue with psychologist about things that become a factor in human life and development, things happen every day that shape a person. The theory of Nature v. Nurture has always been the biggest argument they have been involved in. Nature is the process of an organism that guides it to develop according to its genetic code. Nurture is the environmental factors that influence the development. Another theory is continuity v. discontinuity where the argument is that human development is a continuous process where learning happens gradually or when biological changes had an effect on psychological changes, where biological changes were the basis for personality development. The third and final theory is active v. passive; where children are seen as active even mischievous and wanting to learn compared to passive beings having to be motivated to learn from instructors. I do not believe that nature or nurture play a bigger role than the other in human development. One would think that I should have brown hair and brown eyes by nature because my parents both have the dominant gene but I received the recessive gene and have blue eyes and blond hair. I believe I got my physical features from my uncle (mom’s brother) and my grandmother (mom’s mother), both have blue eyes and both had light hair when they were younger. I often feel like I am the odd ball from my family or as my dad says “the mailman’s daughter”. My mother always...
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...each time he/she hears the word chocolate he/she will salivate since they associate the word with the taste of chocolate. In the operant conditioning children learn by reinforcement and confirmation. Consequently learning language iis focused on nurture. Chomsky considers that vocabulary is employed creatively and is initiated by the environment at a specific age otherwise it will never occur. To illustrate, Jeanine a thirteen year old who was restricted to isolation by her father was not subjected to language, she was never able to utilize language again. This backs up Chomsky concept that language is natural and if this is not learned by a certain age it will not be attained. All these hypotheses are an additional demonstration of just how distinct the perceptions of naturist is as compared to nurturists. To summaries, as shown an enormous amount of work has gone into studies set out to investigate the human development. Moreover, these theories have looked at how humans develop their personality, intelligence, how they interact with family and peers and how that affects their development and what forces drives this development. Although plenty of evidence has been presented in order to support either side in this nature versus nurture debate it seems almost...
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...Augustine Appiah Dankwah BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma in Health and Social Care Unit 4: Development through the Life stages M1 For two of the life stages of your famous individual, discuss the nature/nurture debate in relation to their development. (PIES) For this assignment, my famous individual is Lewis Hamilton. I am going to look at how the nature-nurture debate manifests itself in two of his life stages. The nature-nurture debate is a concept debated by some theorist who argue that we are born the way we are; nature. And that we are brought up and influenced by our surroundings that make us the way we are; nurture We are going to look at Lewis Hamilton’s childhood and adulthood in relation to the nature-nurture debate 4-9years; childhood At this stage, physically Lewis was a healthy child. In relation to the nature-nurture debate, it can be said that Lewis’s health was based on how well he was looked after by his parents, the nurture debate. Also when we look at the nature debate, we could also argue that he had good health because he was born healthy, aspiring to the nature debate. At the age of six, he had the ability to use a radio-controlled car and to ride a go-kart. This ability is more a nurture debate because it was his father that nurtured him to have this ability by buying him a radio-controlled car and go-kart. His father encouraged him. He would not have this ability at birth. Intellectually Lewis attended John Henry Newham School in Stevenage...
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...Record: 1 Full Text Database: Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson) Title:|The Nurture Assumption (Book Review). | Authors:|Smith, Peter K.| Source:|Politics & the Life Sciences. Mar2000, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p12. 3p. | Document Type:|Book Review| Subjects:|NURTURE Assumption, The (Book)BOOKS -- ReviewsHARRIS, JudithCHILDRENNONFICTION| Abstract:|Reviews the book 'The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do,' by Judith Rich Harris.| ISSN:|0730-9384| Accession Number:|4986086| || Persistent link to this record (Permalink):|http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pbh&AN=4986086&site=ehost-live| || Cut and Paste:|The Nurture Assumption (Book Review).| || Database: |Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection| AUTHOR: |Peter K. Smith| TITLE: |The Nurture Assumption| SOURCE: |Politics and the Life Sciences 19 no1 112-14 Mr 2000| The magazine publisher is the copyright holder of this article and it is reproduced with permission. Further reproduction of this article in violation of the copyright is prohibited. The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do Judith Rich Harris New York: The Free Press, 1998, 462 pp. US$25.50 cloth. ISBN 0-684-84409-5. US$15.00 paper. ISBN 0-684-85707-3. Simon and Schuster, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, USA. Judith Rich Harris's book has generated very considerable controversy and publicity. The bottom line of her argument is that, when we think...
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...surroundings build the rest. Some psychologists strongly believe that genetics have fairly little to do with people's personalities but rather it is our surroundings, culture, and traditions that shape who we are. According to Saul McLeod, author of "Nature Nurture in psychology from Simply Psychology, "At the other end of the spectrum are the environmentalists – also known as empiricists (not to be confused with the other empirical / scientific approach). Their basic assumption is that at birth the human mind is a tabula rasa (a blank slate) and that this is gradually “filled” as a result of experience." Other people for nurture believe our childhood and experiences are the only thing that determines how well each individual deals with social situations. In the article "Taking the 'vs.' out of nature vs. nurture" the author, Alana Snibbe, states how culture is a big part of nurture and who we are. Culture is humans way of answering life's unanswerable questions and it's this that shapes a lot about how we think and our individual psychology. People who believe in the same things are probably going to think alike and act alike. Obviously, there are some very extreme cases where nature is taken out of the debate all together and nurture is the sole factor to why someone behaves the way they do. Some examples are an abusive parent, being abandoned or neglected and always being in someone's shadow. These situations have a much bigger effect on humans than any genes. On...
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...Nature vs. Nurture When looking at the nature and nurture debate, overall, I believe that our thoughts, behaviors, and emotions as humans are more strongly influenced by our environment, or nurtured. However, looking from the other point of view, that they are influenced by nature is also very plausible. In general, the reason that the nurtured makes most sense to me, is that the environment everyone grows up in (which is what influences us, obviously,) is so varied from person to person. What is natural to someone from Sweden, will not be natural to an individual in India, or the U.S., or Argentina. Another great example of variance, which is very applicable to me since I am training to be and working as a chef, is the principal of taste aversion. This was discovered by John Garcia along with other researcher. In taste aversion, foods can give certain people bad thoughts via taste or other consequences from the food, where as others may love the same particular food. When I cook food for friends or family, even though I love it, my sister may despise it, while my parents also enjoy it. There is a variance from person to person and thoughts, behaviors, and feelings can influence a persons rationale even though their environment has been relatively identical to another person with a different rational. The environment of each individual is different, so it makes most sense that individuals are nurtured as opposed to having a natural rationale. A type of social learning, is...
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...Nature Nurture D 1 http://s2.hubimg.com/u/3627189_f520.jpg(1 August 2011) Some scientists like George Howe Colt think that people behave as they do according to genetic predisposition this is known as the nature theory of human behaviour. Other scientists believe that people think and behave in certain ways because they are taught to do so, this is known as the nurture theory of human behaviour. For Nelson Mandela in his childhood stage he was able to build a house for himself, looking after cattle, playing different types of games. This allowed him to exercise helping him physically in his childhood stage, so I think you are not born strong but you train yourself to be strong which is nurture. From the earliest moments of life, the interaction of heredity and the environment works to shape who children are and who they will become. While the genetic instructions says that a child inherits from his parents which may set out a road map for development, the environment can impact how these directions are expressed, shaped or event silenced. The complex interaction of nature and nurture does not just occur at certain moments or at certain periods of time it is persistent and lifelong. Clearly, social and emotional development can begin as early as birth, but these developments tend to be primordial and limited until the child is no longer a toddler. This is the period when children begin to develop the abilities to interact with others. These interactions can range...
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...Gender role is manifested within society by observable factors such as behavior and appearance (Ghosh, 2009). Gender identity refers to a person’s personal sense of whether he or she are male or female (or rarely, both or neither). Gender identity, in nearly all instances, is self-identified, as a result of a combination of inherent and extrinsic or environmental factors (Ghosh, 2009). And sexual orientation or preference is whom a person is physically and sexually attracted to. In this paper the topics of discussion will be the interaction between hormones and behaviors in addition to how these interactions affect determining gender identity. It will also explore the biological factor, and how it influences gender as well as nature or nurture in influencing the gender identity of a person. Prenatal exposure to androgen could influence the development of gender role behaviors. For example: boys playing with construction toys and girls playing with...
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...Nature versus Nurture The debate of nature versus nurture has been in people’s minds for a long period (Shaffer, 2008). The controversy concerning the issue is complicated because both nature and nurture play an important role in shaping one’s character. Although genetic makeup does influence how a person develops, the environment where one is brought up has a significant effect on the character. According to Keating (2010), the nurture versus nature debate dates back to the time of John Locke and Aristotle. The two philosophers had individual thoughts on the matter. Despite the arguments, it is accepted that the environment plays a bigger part in the development of one’s personality (Dowling, 2010). Psychologists argue that nature has a great influence on one’s character. Indeed, nature deals with a person’s genetic make-up as well as biological psychology. Genes determine physical traits such as blood type and eye color (Shaffer, 2008). Biological Siblings tent to show similar personality traits compared to adopted ones. Moreover, a person’s genes can determine whether a person can suffer from chronic diseases such as diabetes and Alzheimer. A person who suffers from such diseases shows how nature can play a role in the development of a person. Keating writes, “The nature debate is credible because of the genetic factors that support how people’s personalities and appearance develops, yet the nurture of a person ultimately overshadows the nature debate because...
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...drive scientists to further their researched. The debate between nature and nurture, the two most important elements for inheritance and environment, has been unanswerable and going on for years because the results are not significant enough to separate those two elements. Steven Pinker, a Harvard College Professor and the Johnstone Family Professor at Harvard University, is primarily focusing in language and cognition for his research. He is the author of six books, and some of which include, “How the...
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...Running head: SENSORY PERCEPTIONS Assignment #1 Sensory Perceptions Mary D. L. Allen Critical Thinking Dr. Anne Keyes January 23, 2013 Strayer University In this assignment, this paper will take a look at sensory data and the accuracy or inaccuracy it presents. This will include the reasons in which someone believes in the accuracy of sensory information. It will consider and explain three factors that furnish sensory data to our senses. Finally, the paper will describe the character of nature and nurture to point out how to understand and evaluate sensory data. Basically, sensory perception is defined as an individual’s view of senses sent to the brain in order to help the individual make a decision. Three reasons for believing in the accuracy or inaccuracy of sensory information are perception, interpretation, and knowledge (Anonymous, 2013). Perception is when someone walks in the kitchen to put down bags of groceries and sets a bag on the stove which appears to off. It is off and there would be no reason to believe the information to be inaccurate. However, the stove was recently used and the burners are still hot, which causes the grocery bag to catch on fire. The eyes are deceiving and allowed an individual to put bags of groceries on a hot stove. All this means is someone did not analyze the situation clearly and make the correct decision. It is a matter of how the individual perceived...
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...The Nature-Nurture Issue The nature versus nurture is an issue that has been a long and hotly debated topic for over many generations. In defining the difference between nature and nurture, nature is “behaviors that occur in all like members of a species” and are inherited in behavioral development, whereas nurture is behavioral capacities that are acquired through learning (Pinel, 2011). In terms of the flaw with attempting to determine what degree of behavior is attributed to nature and to what degree is attributed to nurture, is that both of these perspectives play a role in how and why a behavior is exhibited. Some of the behaviors that an individual may exhibit can be linked to that of an animal or through primal instinct, which leads the behaviors that are based on nature. However, we should consider that with the primal fears we have as children, like being afraid of the dark, are no longer exhibited in an individual when he or she is an adult. This change in behavior can be contributed to experience over time, the nurture perspective agrees with an experience’s influence in behavior (Pinel, 2011). It is appropriate to separate the contributions of genetics and experience, when measuring the development of difference among individuals, as genetics is something that is inherited and cannot be easily controlled, whereas an experience is something that can be controlled. While both factors affect an individual’s behavior, these factors are comprised of...
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...assumption being it will often manifest physically, this view does not take into account varying types of aggression that can be equally as harmful, such as verbal and psychological abuse (persistent abuse to the point of anxiety or stress). It should also be noted that aggression is a form of anti-social behaviour, a concept that varies culturally, for example one study concludes that Western cultures are far more likely to resort to physical violence, whilst Eastern cultures would more readily resort to verbal abuse (Andreu et al, 1998). The most interesting aspect of aggression, particularly in children, comes from the debate of Nature/Nurture. The debate is the belief that all behaviour can be explained in one of two ways. Nature states that biological factors are the most deterministic and behaviour is predetermined by said factors; Nurture implies that environmental factors are the cause of behavioural tendencies. The argument for Nature is most analogous with the Biological explanation of aggression, postulating that aggression originates from factors such as: hormone imbalance, faulty brain chemistry, genetic defects and...
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...In my youth, my mother told me that my personality was extremely trusting and warm. I suppose you could say that I was the perfect example of a sunny personality. She said I would even make strangers smile and my respectful nature was always a huge bonus winning over even the crankiest individual. That of course all ended when I endured the cruelty of public school’s relentless bullies, life’s hardships, molestations, and financial difficulties. My personality hardened, I became withdrawn, less trusting, bitter, and unapproachable. I could not stand to be around a lot of people, share my things, or tolerate strangers touching me. My life became miserable and I developed a deep depression which made me fear being too happy. I knew that anytime I would have a somewhat good day the next day was always bad or some type of negative situation would arise. The bright and sunny personality I had so long ago was gone and in its place sat the personality of a slightly disturbed and angry individual. An individual fighting each day for an ounce of justice or succumbing to depression fearing what lay ahead. It is difficult to pin point which aspects of my personality have stayed consistent, what little remained of my youth must be the small bits of sunny personality I have towards someone long after I get to know them. Though my personality remains unapproachable and hard, those that do take the time to talk to me find warmth and kindness often making them feel the need to...
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