Nature vs Nuture

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I think Nature vs. Nurture is an argument between those who believe that human behavior and individual’s development processes are caused by inherited genes (nature) or the environmental influences (nurture). The nature side of the debate argues that our behavior and development are genetically inherited and therefore it cannot be altered, whereas the nurture side of the debate argues that the environment in which we grow and socialize shape our human characteristics. Either way, there is no clear conclusion to this debate; however, in my opinion both nature and nurture are very important in the individual’s developmental processes. This essay will compare the role of genetic influences (nature) versus environmental influences (nurture) in the individual’s developmental process. The studies that have been done on twins played an important role to the nature versus nurture debate. Twins can be either identical (identical genes) or fraternal (sharing approximately 50 percent of their genes). Psychologists have looked at whether identical twins are more alike in characteristics such as intelligence and personality than fraternal twins. If identical twins are found to be more alike in some trait than fraternal twins, then heredity is considered to play an important role in the development of that characteristic, since both fraternal and identical twins are thought to share similar environments. The nature debate, which believes that an individual’s behaviors are determined by their genetic makeup, passed on from parents to their children through DNA. It is a theory chosen by the biological and the mental approaches and is also backed up by the Darwin’s theory, in the aspect that if a child, for example, was aggressive from a young age; biological psychologists would argue that this is because of our evolutionary cycle and that we have developed violent behaviors
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