Humans are widely diverse: with a population over seven billion, each containing unique personalities, experiences, beliefs, morals, just how much of a person’s individual humanity can he or she consider their own creation? In the field of psychology, there is a debate called Nature vs. Nurture which considers the effects of environmental and hereditary traits on the development of personality. Despite being perhaps the largest topic in psychology, there has yet to be an accurate answer as to how much either Nature or Nurture plays in one’s life, but, there is an underlying debate which is even more existentially troubling: how much of an individual’s lifestyle is in their control. In The other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, Moore explores the lifestyles…
The three types of gene environment correlations are passive correlation, evocative correlation, and active correlation. Passive correlation occurs when a young child does not have control over the environments that fit his/her genetics. The parents of the child usually expose the child to experiences and environments based on the parents’ genes. For example, I have three friends who are all siblings whose parents are both musically inclined. Their parents taught the three of them how to play various instruments and their whole family all play and sing together at church and at home.…
Today’s research has proven that if you add environmental stress factors to a person, that this could alter the systems influenced by genes. It can alter the systems by creating developing diseases and different types of disorders such as panic disorder and depression (Carey & Gotesman, 2006). Another factor that came about contradicting the nature vs. nurture model was the advances in neuroscience. Neuroscience research demonstrates that certain areas of the brain are associated with a change of behavior (Carey & Gotesman, 2006). These new views of environment and genetics do not involve the notion of one or the other; rather it explains how both environment and genetics both come together and how they are associated with behavior.…
The nature versus nurture argument has been a vicious and recurring one that has spanned the course of several decades. As human culture has evolved, however, so has the debate. Scientists now concede to a middle ground where nature and nurture may be inseparable. Nature is defined as any “hereditary factors”—emotions and personalities—that influence who people are (Bandura, 575-582). Nurture, on the other hand, refers to any environmental variables—friends, family, society—that can impact an individual’s behavior and growth.…
Environmental genetics are when two genes interact with the environment in different ways. Scientists and doctors are currently experimenting with genes and the environment as a means to cure or prevent certain diseases. Pollution from the environment can give you various forms of cancer, which has very little to do with your biological composition. Environmental factors such as stress, diet, exposure to the sun, and lifestyle impact genes in various ways. Biological genes are genes that are copied from our parents.…
Our surroundings often shape our personalities and influence our individual qualities. In the nature versus nurture debate, in my opinion, I believe that humans are prone to adapt to the environment they're brought up in; meaning they contain a genetic disposition toward certain characteristics, however, they are revealed differently based on circumstances. I believe familial and social bonds, as well as academic and employment experiences most notably mold the person we become. As we all know, parents always want the best for us. They nurture us throughout our childhood and help us enter our adulthood well prepared.…
Several definitions of the concept are scattered in developmental biology and psychology literatures. In developmental biology, Epigenisis is the way a gene changes due to environmental factors. Going further into definition, “things” in the environment will positively or negatively affect the way genetic material is expressed in the development of humans. I’ll begin to discuss this by using my family background as an example. Due to epigenetics, I am at a higher risk of one day having MDD (Major Depression…
In short, your family, community and schooling shape and mould your personality such that they prepare you for…
Elizabeth Williams Ms. Blair English 4 2 April 2015 What causes serial killers to become what they are: Nature or nurture? There are many speculations of what makes a person do and be the things they are but it is not only nature or nurture it’s a combination of both. For a long time people have wondered what makes people act the way they do. People especially wonder about the people of the outcast of the society, the killers. People are fascinated of how these people can do the things they do.…
Epigenetics means changes in genes that do not affect DNA sequence. These changes might be affected by the exposure every human being has to a different environment and circumstances which leads to changes in their genes, yet these changes do not change that person’s DNA. After interviewing my family, I discovered that I am most at risk for asthma, dust and humidity allergy, rheumatoid arthritis, glaucoma, diabetes, hypertension and migraine. Having a twin sister helps me understand the meaning of epigenetics more clearly. Both of my parents and my sister are asthmatic and have dust and humidity allergies, yet I have never suffered any of these diseases.…
Introduction What makes a human, human? Who decides what being fully human entails? Many psychologists believe in the fifty-fifty theory. Half of who a person becomes is made up of his or her genetics or nature, while the other half is made up of how they were raised or nurtured. “The nature vs. nurture debate within psychology is concerned with the extent to which particular aspects of behavior are a product of either inherited (i.e., genetic) or acquired (i.e., learned) characteristics” (McLeod).…
Simone Francis Reference number: 2167-6527 Epigenetics is the study of modifications to the genes of organisms. The way in which our genes behave can be altered by our epigenomes without changing our DNA sequence. They can be altered by different factors of our environment such as what we eat, drink, etc. The video on epigenetics was very informative. Prior to watching the video, I had no knowledge of what epigenetics was nor have I ever heard about it.…
We meet a lot of people from different walks of life that are of various outlooks, personality traits, behaviors, thinking patterns and personality. These variations are explained through theories, arguments and discussions. Freud’s Psychosexual Theory focuses on the spectrum of nature, Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory focuses on the influence of nature and Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory emphasizes on the importance of both nature and nurture in the process of human development. Although different psychologist and philosophers have different views on how behavior, thinking, emotions and personality are formed, none of these theories are labelled as correct or incorrect. However, people are at the mercy of neither their genes nor their environment when they actively construct optimal experiences.…
Introduction The argument of nature vs. nurture has been one of the oldest and one of the largest controversies on whether our influences come from our genes (nature) or environmental factors (nurture), and how it could affect our behavioral, appearances, development, and our personality. These two play a big role in the human development. This argument will always exist on what is said about the human development. Scientists have not been able to sort this argument out and decide which one rules out the other.…
Sociology – Unit 2 Assignment Unit 2 Assignment is worth 50 points Assignment - Chapters Three and Four Part I - Discuss the "nature versus nurture" argument and provide support for each aspect of the controversy. “Nature versus nurture” is a concept within psychology whereby the extend of which aspects of behavior is inherited or acquired. Human behavior is largely influenced bu both of these factors when it comes to behavior. There are characteristics that we inherit and others that we develop, depending on or environment and experiences.…