Please copy into the Class Notes section of your notebook. Nature vs. Nurture Please copy into the Class Notes section of your notebook.

What is "Nature vs. Nurture" Nature versus nurture" is a psychology term related to whether heredity or the environment most impacts human psychological development (behavior, habits, intelligence, personality, sexuality, aggressive tendencies, and so on).

Nature In the “Nature vs. Nurture" debate, nature refers to an individual's innate qualities (nativism). Example: Nature is your genes. The physical and personality traits determined by your genes stay the same irrespective of where you were born and raised. Physical appearance, height, hair color, eye color, etc. Factors: Biological and Family

Nurture In the "nature vs nurture" debate, nurture refers to personal experiences (i.e. empiricism or behaviorism). Example: Nurture refers to your childhood, or how you were brought up. Someone could be born with genes to give them a normal height, but be malnourished in childhood, resulting in stunted growth and a failure to develop as expected. Factors : Environmental and Social

Five Questions for discussion… Are criminals made by nature? Or are they a product of Nurture? Explain. What is one’s personality a result of? Nature or Nurture? Explain. Is the out come of a child's behavior caused by their upbringing, i.e. Nurture, or is it in their genes, i.e. Nature? Is Religion Nature or Nurture? What is more Influential, Nature or Nurture? Five Questions for discussion…

Are the Characters of Ralph and Jack a product of nature or nurture? Complete a chart like the one that follows… Write down all the ways that each character represents either Nature or Nurture. Conduct a thorough analysis. Use specific scenes and lines of dialogue. Be sure to include the page #’s…

Character Nature Nurture Ralph Jack