M1: Discuss the nature-nurture debate in relation to the development of an individual. The definition of learning through ‘nature’ is that things that we know which are innate. These things are biologically caused and genetically inherited. The definition of ‘nurture’ is the effect of the environment has on our learning. The nature-nurture debate is all about whether genetics (nature) or our environment (nurture) is responsible for our behaviour and development.
Individuals who live in the environment has behavioral issues and things need to change for the better of the environment. Individuals take time for beliefs of the environmental ethics. To use the five methods for individuals to handle environmental issues there should be more education on what can help them with their change of beliefs for environmental ethics. First method is awareness of the behavior of the society and the challenges of the environment. Contemplation can help individuals engage into the issue for they can be aware of what's going on in their society.
Nature vs Nurture There has always been controversy over whether inherited genes or the environment influences and affects our intelligence, development, behavior, personality, and ability more then the other. This debate is recognized as nature verses nurture. Sure heredity gives us our physical traits like hair, height, eye color, etc, but the environment plays a greater role in shaping someone’s personality. From personal experience, I believe that nurture has made a bigger impact in my personality then nature. I refuse to believe that people are born with a personality; it all lies with ones up bringing and experiences.
If there was violence, we need to investigate if the violence took place after a specific food ingested that may have caused an imbalance of chemicals in the brain. I know that these variables that I am giving are far fetch, but in order to do a thorough and precise investigation, we must take into consideration those things that would interfere with our
Are we programmed to care primarily for self, relatives and survival or to sacrifice for the strength of survival of our “group?” This question can be dated back to as early as Charles Darwin, August Comte and Richard Dawkins. Grossman adds that Richard Dawkins believed that people of evolution are the selfish ones and that altruism must be taught. This is saying that we as humans are born into a word of greed and deceit, but must learn to share and unite with others. Although both sides are argued throughout the article, it is not known which side is correct and the question will still continue to be a subject of numerous scientists and psychologists over the
Over time a stimulus may affect a segment of the population in such a dramatic way that they alter as a society their moral make. “The nature and structure of belief systems is important from the perspective of an informational theorist because beliefs are thought to provide the cognitive foundation of an attitude. In order to change an attitude, then, it is presumably necessary to modify the information on which that attitude rests. It is generally necessary, therefore, to change a person's beliefs, eliminate old beliefs or introduce new beliefs." (Richard Petty) The unfolding of time brings changes and transitions to societies.
They argue that our behavioural aspects originate only from the environmental factors of our upbringing. From my personal point of view, one theory cannot simply be used to explain human behaviour, because there are various factors that affect the way a human thinks, speaks, moves and generally acts. It would take a lot of research to prove that simply DNA is what makes our personalities the way they are. The truth of the matter is that it is a combination of both genetics and the environment we surround ourselves in that help define us as beings. For example, a murderer being studied at a local prison could have a psychological disorder, which causes them to interpret the world around them differently, but it also be because of an genetically inherited disease that runs in the family.
It is hard to find the behavior which comes from nature since environment has a strong effect on human behavior. However, I think some of sexual orientation such as gay can be consider as nature. Nature theory of human behavior can only apply to this case if this person was born that way. This is one of the most debated issues pertaining to the nature theory pointing to a genetic component to sexual orientation. References James , H. ( 2013).
Environmental Determinism And Environmental Probabilism, Is The Environment Really Influencing Human society? The fundamental of environmental determinism based on to emphasized the role of physical geography, particularly about climate, and how this physical environment in structuring human activities. There are two determinisms that I am going to discuss. The first one is called “Biological determinism”, this determinism is emphasized on the claims that behaviors is the result of internal factors, which means we human have no control about it. For example, these include genetic make-up; biological needs and evolutionary pressures.
COPYRIGHT MICHAEL P M MHLANGA THE NATURE NURTURE DEBATE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIVIDUALS. MICHAEL P M MHLANGA GREAT ZIMBABWE UNIVERSITY The concepts of nature and nurture shape the development of human beings. This write up sets out to assess the nature nurture debate, pinpointing the effects each has on the development of children. Terms that will be defined are nature nurture debate, nature and nurture. Feldman (2009) defines the nature nurture debate as the issue of the degree to which environment and hereditary factors influence the behaviour.