The Forever Debate Christine Nerren South University Online Outline: I. Nature: Definition: The traits we are born with through heredity from both of our parents. a. Appearance -eye color -hair color -skin tone -freckles or no freckles b. How we laugh c. Some personality traits -aggression -intelligence -possibly sexual orientation II. Nurture: Definition: The traits of which we are that are formed by our environment. […]

One of the most enduring debates in the field of psychology is the controversial idea of nature vs. nurture. Throughout the endless history of the debate, no clear conclusion has been met, only hypotheses have been formed. At the center of the debate, human behaviors, ideas, and feelings are being determined, whether they are learned or inherited. Determining physical traits, such as eye color or […]

Does heredity affect your personality, or is it your environment. Many psychologists have been back and forth on this question for years. Both of them can affect your behavior and development, but which one affects it the most? Heredity and environment are both leading causes of how a human being acts, and functions. From the heredity standpoint, however, it is proven that heredity does play […]

Whereas nurture is the environment around us that can influence our upbringing and it is the society around us that affect the way we think or do certain things. It refers to a person’s childhood and how they were brought up and what they learn. Nature vs. Nurture debate does not have a firm conclusion to say which one has more value as it is […]

The nature versus nurture debate concerns the relative importance of an individual’s innate qualities (“nature,” i. e. nativism, or innatism) versus personal experiences (“nurture,” i. e. empiricism or behaviorism) in determining or causing individual differences in physical and behavioral traits. The phrase “Nature versus nurture” in its modern sense was coined[1][2][3] by the English Victorian polymath Francis Galton in discussion of the influence of heredity […]