Nature Vs Nurture

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Psychology is defined as the study of mind and behaviour. It complex discipline includes many topics of study such as human development, sports, health, clinical, social behaviour, and cognitive development. It focuses on causes and significances behaviour of human mind and their surroundings. It also underlies the mental behaviour of people.
In this essay, it will focus on nature and nurture and how it determines human behaviour and the environment they live in. The nature versus nurture is debate is one of the oldest in the history of psychology. It will discuss how personal behaviour affect human beings. It will be based on (Watson, 1924) he said "give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in …show more content…

A child can be nurtured to be someone but cannot change it personality. Attachment is a deep and enduring emotional bond that connects one person to another across time and space (Ainsworth, 1973; Bowlby, 1969). Nature plays a great part in human life and as science has proved that we inherit genetics. Per Watson statement of give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in. Having used the word well-formed and healthy infant tells you that nature plays major role in upbringing as he did not say give me an infant and will make him a whoever I want him to be. One can conform to become criminal but personality cannot be changed. Attachment theory indicates how a child and parent's connection impacts on growth. Per biologist, personality is natural. Biologist believes that personality is an outcome of evolutionary process. (McLeod, 2007). As we human beings inherit behaviours due to a compound collaboration of genes. Genes control our behaviours. Naturalist believes that form and characteristics are measured with personality test remains a stable throughout human life. They further believe that human beings may improve their kinds or personality but can never change them altogether. (Herschkowitz, …show more content…

Nurturing support and encourage us during the period of upbringing or development. Per Watson theory, the environment plays a major role in development as human beings so it can agree on that as it being supported by Bandura theory (1977). "He states that aggression is learnt from the environment through observation and imitation". He suggested children observe the people around them, behaving in various ways. Individual observe people and act on as their role models. As children inherit from parents, their behaviour can be influence by family members, character on television, peer groups, and teachers at school. They can conform to behaviour of others but their personality will remain. A child is likely to attend to and imitate those people it perceives as like itself and it is more likely to imitate behaviour modelled by people of same sex. People around the child will respond to the behaviour it imitates with either reinforcement or punishment. Other hand parent of the same sex can raise a child and will it grow up differently as personality is hard to change. Skinner (1957) "believed that language is learnt from other people through behaviour shaping techniques". So, per Watson theory, people sometimes changes their behaviours to fit in the environment around them. In some cases, social influence might involve agreeing with or acting like most people in a specific group, or might

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