WHAT IS NATURE VS NURTURE

WHAT IS NATURE VS NURTURE

• Nature- Nature is influenced by genetic inheritance and other biological factors.
• Nurture- Influences from external factors the product from learning from experiences from exposure to outside resources.

ARGUMENT

• Nurture plays a greater role because parents matter, and genes by themselves can’t determine everything.

CONT

• John B Watson believes the nurture side of nature vs nurture is more important because of his findings on the Little Albert

LITTLE ALBERT

• Douglas Merritte, also know as Little Albert.
• Died at age 6 on May 10, 1995 because of fluid build up. He had been struggling with it all his life. (Hydrocephalus)
• “Our search of 7 years was longer than the boy’s life.” - Beck
• John B Watson, underestimated the circumstances of his health.
• His mother gave his child to the hospital for 1dollar.
• The Little Albert experiment would be considered unethical in today’s view.

WHAT HAPPENED

• John B Watson made a hypothesis that infants do not naturally fear animals.
• Little Albert has a fear of loud noises
• Watson would expose him to animals that made loud noises.
• It showed that the animals he was comfortable with could inflict fear on him later.

SOURCES

• Verywellmind.com
• Apa.org
• Simplypsychology.org
• Psychologized.org

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