Nature vs Nurture

The Nature Vs Nurture debate is a debate on which one has a bigger influence.

Nature

• Hereditary factors
• Physical apearance
• Personality characteristics

Nurture

• Environmental variables
• childhood experience
• social relationships
• surrounding culture

Plato and Descartes

• certain things are inborn
• things occur nsturally
• Navists

Tabula Rasa

• mind begins as blank slate
• all of our knowledge is determined off of experience.

Empiricists

• charicteristics result from learning.
• created behaviorism which is the belief all actions are the result of conditioning.

Example of the debate

• When someone does good in school, is it genetical or an enriched enviornment?

Example #2

• If a man abuses his family, is it because he was born with violent tendencies or something he learned from his past?

Interactions

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End

• Although the debate is a very important dicussion, wither way the person did something that they choose to do.