Friday, January 13, 2017

Human Sciences vs. Natural Sciences

Simply respond to the following statement and state your reasons for why you know or believe that you are right.

Nature vs. Nurture

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  1. Nature v. Nurture
    To begin, nature is "the basic or inherent features of something especially when seen as characteristics of it" where as nurture is "the care and attention given to someone or something that is growing or developing". Nature is what ultimately surrounds one. Ones personality and characteristics can change depending on what surrounds them. For example, if someone who lives in a home full of unhealthy food, they will most likely be over weight. Whereas someone who lives in a home full of organic healthy foods, they will most likely obtain a heathy weight. On the other hand nurture is how one is treated. If a child grows up in a bad environment and is not treated properly, they will most likely not have the mindset and personality as a child you is cared for and loved 24/7. This being said, I believe that nurture directly correlates to how a human being acts and develops. It does not matter if a child grows up in a bad neighborhood or a poor home, if they are loved, given attention, and cared for with great effort by the parents. Whereas a person who lives in a poor neighborhood and is neglected will not have the same personality as the one I mentioned before. Overall, I believe nurture is what creates who you are and who you will become.

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  2. Nature is a surrounding force that cannot occur without the infinite cycle of perfect circumstances in which something was nurtured in exactly the right way to influence whatever has come to maturity at the moment. On the opposite an endless cycle of endless amount of things had to be nurtured by nature in order to spawn more. A humans actions and reactions to stimuli is predetermined due to habitual conditioning in response to natures random puzzles, that still influence a person as of that moment. A child touches a hot stove and burns themselves. They try to avoid that for the rest of their life because they have nurtured a certain reaction to that situation. Nature has nurtured our brains to hold a complex neural network that does understand on a deeper level and keep creating conditions to solve nature. Nature versus nurture; one cannot exist without the other and neither came first.

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  3. Nature Vs. Nurture
    The debate over why a human is the way they are is widely disputed, but a combination of nature and nurture is ultimately what creates culture, behavior, and personality. Nature is often defined as genetic or hormone based behavior, whereas nurture is accredited to the environment and experience of a specific person. Nature can have more of an effect on behavior than nurture as it is a chemical decision. However it can be argued that behavior is influenced by one's surroundings. More specifically the way in which one grows up and in what situation is most definitely dictated by nurture and childhood experiences.

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  4. Nature vs. Nurture
    The nature vs. nurture debate is one that psychologists have been studying and discussing for ages. Nature refers to the genes, DNA, ad hereditary factors that make up both our physical and personality characteristics. Nurture on the other hand refers to the characteristics in our environment including the way we were raised, our childhood experiences, the culture, and our personal relationships. I believe that it is nurture that has more of an affect on one's behavior. I believe that this is right because of the similarities found in behavior. For example, when a serial killer is caught they study the family history and childhood. Often times there are signs of neglect, child abuse, drug. alcohol abuse, etc. The behaviors in the environment have a large affect on a person compared to their genes and appearance.

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  5. While both nature and nurture both play a vital role in a person’s development, I would argue that nurture affects development more than nature. Nature is responsible for our basic intelligence and genetics regarding health. However, our true personalities, intelligence, behaviors, and health are environmental. Many controversial social experiments have been conducted over the years to highlight this. One example of this is a child named Genie. Genie was locked in a room alone until the age of 13 and was subject to immense abuse until she was rescued as a teenager. Because of the lack of human interaction, food, activity, and education, Genie had the intelligence of a 13-month old baby. She had extremely underdeveloped motor skills. She could not stand up, straighten her limbs, or even speak. Because she was not provided with human interaction or nurturing behavior, her brain and body were extremely underdeveloped. This highlights the importance of nurture in human development. Another example of this is children in orphanages. Infants need skin-to-skin contact and if they do not receive it, their hormone balances can become abnormal leading to the underdevelopment of their brain and in extreme cases, can kill them. Without human touch, babies do not develop correctly. Finally, experiments have been conducted with twins. Twins who were separated at birth, despite having certain similar characteristics, often times have very different interests and personalities, further highlighting the importance of nurture. Overall, nurture highly affects the development of children. The only exception to this is sexual orientation and gender identity, which are not choices/results of environment.

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  6. Nature vs. Nurture
    The question of nature versus nurture is in regards to how a someone or something develops. I personally think that nurture has a more impacting effect on personality development due to how interactions and certain situations can leave lasting effects on people. For example, you can teach animals things they are not accustomed to doing such as teaching elephants circus tricks and also there have been multiple twin experiments where each twin grows up in a different environment and the differences in their behavior and preferences are observed. But, nature does have a large role on development that I did not know of. Apparently you can’t tame tigers because you just simply can’t. So that’s disappointing.

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  7. The phrase “nature vs. nurture” pertains to how these two contrasting concepts affect the development and behavior of someone or something. Nature considers a more scientific approach that can be backed up by evidence, such as evolution and genetics. On the other hand, nurture is concerned with external forces and the surrounding environment that has an influence on the individual or subject. Although many people choose to debate that one is more predominant than the other, it can be argued that both play an equal key role. For example, nature and nurture can both attribute to the actions and behavior of a serial rapist. If the serial rapist had been a victim of sexual abuse as a child, then that may have caused the child to carry on that trauma into adulthood and then become the sexual abuser. The child’s environment ultimately influenced them to inflict the same suffering and anguish they felt as a child onto other people later in their lives. In addition, a chemical imbalance in the brain may impel the serial rapist to rape, and have a very different mindset from those that would not commit rape. It is arguable that genes is the answer to understanding the mind of a serial rapist and it is the genetic defect that they are born with that eventually leads them to become a serial rapist.

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  8. Nature vs. Nurture
    Nature comes about on planet earth naturally. Using other resources the planet provides Nature grow naturally. Nurture is something that animals do. A mother bear will nurture her cubs until they no longer need help to survive. Nurture is making sure something grows and survives. Humans nurture many things from children, other animals, plants. A older animal naturally had the instinct to care for or nurture their young. Nature is often thought of as plants, plants are unable to nurture other plants they might produce. Nurture is also a behavior nature does not have behaviors it just produces things when the environment is right.

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  9. Some characteristics of human beings are purely based on nature; color of eyes, pigmentation of skin, and others are all decided genetically. However, there are other factors that make up a person that can change. While both nature and nurture play large roles in how someone develops as a human being, nurture is ultimately more influential in our behaviors. The stark contrasts that can occur based on nurture (or the lack of it) proves that it can change our behaviors. With nature, there are many mental health conditions that we can face, including schizophrenia. But with a lack of nurture, people can come face to face with more possibilities of mental illness. People who have life experiences such as bullying, abuse, or other trauma can affect their personalities for the worse. James Fallon, a neuroscientist, found out that he had the brain of a psychopath; his brain showed low activity in areas connected to empathy, morality, and self control. However, his genetic nature did not shape who he became. Fallon states that he grew up in a nurturing and loving environment, helping him become the neuroscientist that he is today. The difference that nurture can make upon an individual is impactful.

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  10. When I think of nature vs nurture it's this weird connection I come up with in my head where a person can have a certain nature about them, and a person can nurture someone or something in a certain way. Now, someone can be nurturing and have a caring nature at the same time. I wouldn't necessarily think that the two ideals should be pitted against each other. On the other hand, someone can have a sort of twisted sense of mind and have a destructive nature, and only nurture in a sadistic manner. In those cases, I think the person can hit some pretty big extremes. Then again, as a contradicting statement, I think someone can have a destructive nature while having a nurturing personality. A great example/misunderstanding of this concept is Lenny from Of Mice and Men. He can be so destructive with everything he does, but he nurture things and his destructive nature causes him to be a destructive nurturer as well, unbeknownst to him. Overall, I think these two ideals shouldn't really be seen as a "vs" but more as a coexisting relationship. Someone can have two bad ideals, two good ideals, or one bad and one good.

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  11. "Nature vs. Nurture" is a statement commonly used in the discussion of why a person becomes who they become. The "nurture" part implies that a person's surroundings influence who they grow up to be, whereas "nature" follows the assumption that you are who you are no matter how you grow up due to the genes you were born with. I think who you are stems from a combination of the two categories of nature and nurture. Physical traits are purely genetic, coming from a combination of your mother and father. Some emotional traits may be genetic as well, especially disorders. I think emotional dispositions may also be genetic based on my experience as a third child, observing my siblings and the rest of my family. I notice significant personality similarities between one of my siblings and my grandma, even though my sibling did not grow up with my grandma as a significant part of their life. Furthermore, myself and my siblings are all similar in personality, yet still different when it comes to some things. I think this is a result of us being raised in the same environment, yet also having our own unique genetic makeup, as well as our own personal experiences outside of home that have shaped us into who we are.

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  12. Nature vs Nurture

    For example, if someone grows up in a poor neighborhood surrounded with gang members, through nature, they will most likely become a gang member themeslf. Nature is the inborn or hereditary characteristics as an influence on or determinant of personality. Nature will play a role in the life of the kid who grows up with the gang members. The kid is not steered in in any sort of directional path other than the life he is witnessing through his interactions and altercations with the gang. He does not know any other path other than the one he is on. This would be an example of nature in a very realistic world. Nurturing someone is somewhat altering their naturally occurring world. For example, the same kid grows up in the same poor neighborhood with gang members. The kid grows up in the gang, but when he is twelve years old, he meets a basketball coach at a school who ends up steering the kid in the right direction, away from the gangs and violence. The coach has nurtured the kid and has altered nature.

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  13. Nature vs Nurture
    Nurture plays a greater impact on a human being than do nature. Humans are malleable creatures who have evolved to adapt and deal with their new environments. While there are some fundamental human thoughts that are damn near impossible to change, for example killing a child, many values come from the community around us. An example of cultural differences (I apologize for how graphic this is) is a tribe in Papa New Guinea that believes in order to become a man, boys must perform fellatio on older warriors in order to absorb their manliness. Is this a fundamental aspect of humans, or the result of the environment that they have lived in for thousands of years? This is just one example of where we live can radically change who you are. If I were to meet someone of Papa New Guinea descent in say the US, I am more inclined to suspect they do not follow that practice. I get it, this may be a strange example, but where we are and who we surround ourselves with, plays a significant role in determining who we are and or become.

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  14. Nature is a person’s pre-developed personality; it defines them as a person as well as their actions. Nurture, here, is the care, or lack of, that a person receives throughout their lives but especially in their early and teen years. Both of these two factors ultimately influence how a person behaves, but one is more dominant than the other. I believe that nurture is more important than nature in the cultivation of a person’s personality and actions. I believe this because I have heard of many cases of serial killers coming out of horrible family situations where they are physically or mentally abused. This is not to say that abuse causes someone to be a killer or that a person cannot succeed in life if they were beaten as a child, but the first few years of a child’s life are incredibly important for their brain development. Without the proper nurturing to develop a fully functional brain, a person will be forever altered no matter what their original nature was.

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  15. Nature vs Nurture
    In reference to the human sciences, ones nature refers to their soul, or their fundamental being. To nurture is to care for another by aiding their nature or altering their nature. Humans are one of the only animals who contain in their nature, the instinct to nurture not only family, but other units in the population for no other reason but to help. As a result of becoming the most prosperous species on Earth, humans have developed strange, unique natural instincts to nurture other organisms. Through the process of learning behavior at young ages through observing the culture around us and lessons taught, nurturing becomes instilled into our brains early on. However, humans also experience the opposite of this in other situations. For example, humans who grow up to become sociopathic have experienced teams that causes them to change their definition of nurture. To nurture for a sociopath, may be that it is better for them to be dead because of the evil nature of the world such as Tate in American Horror Story.

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  16. Nature is defined as what we inherit through genes. Nurture is then defined by the environmental stimuli around us. However, we react to nurture based on nature. The brain needs nurture because nature made it so. Therefore all nurture is really just abstract nature. Everything relates back to chemical reactions we don't fully comprehend working together to create and even less understandable human being.

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  17. Nature vs. Nurture has been a question that humanity has been puzzled by and has never been truly been able to solve. I believe that it is safe to say that both Nature and Nurture equally affect human behavior and how society has been formed. Genetics is still an area in science in which many more discoveries are yet to be found, however with the knowledge that is already founded, we know that our genes have a large part in not only what we look like, but also how we act and the way our brain functions. Nature also refers to our primal and animalistic tendencies that all living creatures have. Nurture is the environment and culture we are raised in. This has an extremely prominent affect in who we are as people in society. Many mantras that we live by are inputted by the people in our lives, some of whom are welcome and some of whom are not. I believe that Nature vs. Nurture should not in fact be a question at all, but rather a single entity in which we can describe humanity.

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  18. Nature vs. Nurture
    While both nature and nurture affect the development of a young child I believe that nurture is more crucial. There have been many studies focused about this and it is still a debated topic. Nurturing a child can definitely bring more development than the upbringing of another child not nurtured. Without nurturing a child can have developmental issues or various other social defects. A child without love and nurturing will eventually do the same upon others. This creates a cold cycle that would not be beneficial to society. The nature of the child may be one way but can be amplified depending on the nurture or love the child recieves in early childhood.

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  19. The way I see it, Nature is the natural development of a creature with no care from others. Nurture is the development of something that is taken care of. Nature teaches survival, instinct, and is over all seemingly primitive. Nurture on the other hand teaches how to act in society me helps a creature understand their surroundings. Both are highly needed in a society, because with out nature, we would be extinct, and without nurture, we would not be an intelligent society because are focus would be on surviving and not progressing or helping each other

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  20. Nature vs. Nurture
    Although both are important factors in human development, they each play different roles. Nature is a person's genetics and other biological factors that provide both physiological and psychological traits to a person's identity. Nurture is the upbringing, care, and exposure the person experiences as a child. I believe that both are important in determining the adult that emerges from childhood, as nature provides basic traits that influence personality while nurture provides the experiences that influence a person's outlook. I believe that their effects are not mutually exclusive, but rather cross over quite often. For example, if a person happened to have a genetic disease like hemophilia, that might have influenced their nurture experience, as their parents may have been more protective and constricted the child's opportunities to play with other children. Nurture can also affect a child's biology, as, for instance, a child who experiences severe neglect will have underdeveloped portions of the brain. Both function together to determine the type of person one will become. Epigenetics serves to further demonstrate how both genotype and experiences determine one's phenotype.

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  21. While both factors intermingle to ultimately determine an individual's personality and behavior, nurture can easily overshadow one's innate set of behavioral traits if one's upbringing is extreme enough. For instance, without negative influence a child might have a naturally intelligent, thoughtful, and kind disposition, but with a particularly repressive or neglectful childhood, this same child might lose that personality completely and become cruel and ruthless simply as a survival mechanism for the formative years of their life. In terms of physical attributes, however, nature is certainly the determining force. While epigenetics do play a significant role in an individual's genetic makeup, it is their underlying genome (nature) that provides the framework and opportunity for such changes.

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  22. Both nature and nurture are entirely important in shaping an individual. However, all of nurture's effects would not be possible without the groundwork done by nature on a person's as a whole. For example, a person can be brought up in a harsh situation or with an unusual upbringing and gain a different aspect to their personality - perhaps a fear of neglect or abandonment. However, although this seems like a side effect of the way the person was brought up (it partially is), the person would not have the response from this type of nurture (or lack of) if not for nature. The person reacts by developing a fear of abandonment - triggered by nurture, but entirely nature based. As humans, a need for human connection and attention is natural. Nurture did not create this, but simply amplify the individual's need for it.

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  23. We are animals, and at the core animals are entirely nature, not nurture. Nurture only exists as a result of nature, as it is a refinery of the simplistic yet essential animal traits. The basic traits and behaviors we humans (and animals) perform are ingrained in the depths of our brains via millennia of evolution. With this we are able to flee or fight while in danger, express emotions, and to some extent feel the need to reproduce. Nurture refines and expands upon these responses and traits, as humans learn different things while growing up and developing. Humans are able to express anger and fear as a result of nature, however cannot express these through language, which is taught with nurture. Even in animals more often than not the mother stays with her babies in order to nurture and teach them refined ways of staying alive while both nature and nurture are in play.

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  24. Personally, I believe both nature and nurture are extremely important in the development of an individual. However, nature is the very environment to which we are exposed, and often has many effects on us that may not be completely evident. The environment in which each individual considers normal or typical will likely differ greatly, as we have all have very different upbringings. While nurture greatly impacts our behavior and morals as we grow, I believe it will only effect is so much. While it is necessary to obtain proper attention and affection, our environment is the very culture and society in which we learn is normal and to become an active part of.

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  25. Both nature and nurture go hand in hand in shaping us into who we are. I think there is a balance between which affects us more, but it is not an equal sides type of balance. I personally believe that nurture shapes us into who we are more than nature does. I'm not saying that the environment we are in and who we are born as do not impact who we become, I just believe that nurture has a greater impact. How you are raised influences who you become. Every little mess up or great thing that happened to you when you were even two months old till 13 years old, shapes you and creates the type of person you become. When you are just a baby, how people treat you and the type of attention you get will ultimately influence you more than just what type of situation you were born into. I do believe that nature holds the building blocks of who we are, but it is up to nurture to further develop those traits. Nature can decide what we are born as and the type of environment we live in and are exposed to , but I believe that nurture takes those already built in traits and just expands on them. I believe that there is a balance between nature and nurture, where one does outweigh the other but only in a sense to build upon the other.

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  26. Nature versus nurture is a really fascinating question that I do not know all that much about. However, I can make my own assumptions and hypothesize. Obviously, nature is incredibly important. Nature defines in part what we will be able to look like, some of our fundamental personality characteristics and many other things that are implicit to who one truly is. I feel that nature is the foundation. It is the genetic coding that shapes who we can one day become. Nature is responsible for natural ability, instinct, and many other things that we aren't aware of or feel like we cannot choose. However, nurture is also incredibly important. Nurture is what determines who we become as we mature. Think about it like this: nature creates the initial building block of who we are, but it is nurture that decides who we become, the decisions we make, and ultimately molds us into the person we are to become. Nature and nurture work hand and hand, they are almost too different to even compare. When asking: was it nature or nurture that was responsible for this action or decision the answer is always both. Of course, different parts of a human are affected more or less by each. Emotional stability and happiness can usually be credited to nurture, while rate of metabolism for example can be credited to nature. However, we are incredibly complex and interwoven and are interconnected beings whose parts that make up the whole each have their own implications on everything else. So yes, it is less nature vs nurture, and more nature and nurture.

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  27. Nature vs. Nurture
    I feel that this topic of nature vs. nurture can go either way if supported correctly with examples and a detailed analysis. For me, I believe that because we are humans that come from primates, we need a little bit of both. Most of us are born with nurturing parents who are there for us throughout our childhood and they basically do everything for us until we are old enough to do it on our own. We are taught the basic principles of living from our nurturing parents, however we also learn a lot of these basic principles from nature. It is our instincts to eat and digest our food, which I think is a factor of nature but is reassured by nurture to make sure we are healthy. This concept of nature vs. nature I feel is not necessarily going against each other as much as going with each other. We need both in order to function properly and to survive. I feel as if nature is what creates us, and nurture is what defines us. The way we are brought up tells a whole lot about how we are today and who we have become. For most people, it is easy to tell how we were raised by how we act. Those who are troubled and cause a lot of mischief are more likely to lack nurture while those who need to be babied and taken care of their whole life are more likely to lack nature. Nature vs. nurture I feel is more as a combined idea rather than two separate ones.

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  28. I believe that nurture is more important than nature. Many aspect of personality are inherent to nature. There are some scientist who believe that certain personality traits and behaviors, like anger, are at least partially, hereditary. It does pose an intriguing ethical issue in terms of judging human behavior (should a person genetically predisposed for anger issues be judged in a court of law in the same way for a crime of passion?), but my instinct is to ignore the genetics and focus on the individual. I think that environment, or nurture, plays a much larger role in who a person actually is. Humans learn from their environments, and what we learn influences us greatly. One Harvard study, for instance, suggests that students who are told they are smart, regardless of initial IQ (another trait of “nature”), do perform better. Although both factors play important roles, I think nurture has a more significant impact.

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  29. Nurture is more important when it comes to certain factors ad nature can be seen as more important pertaining to other things. I do believe however that nurture is more important because we can control nurture as opposed to nature which we have very little to no control over. The way we treat a child as a young age can have an immense impact on that child's life. We can control whether our child has a good life or a good enough life. We can not control if the child is born impaired. Many psychological disorders can easily be prevented using nurture tactics, however many are just hereditary and will from no matter any amount of nurture. In my opinion however nurture is much more important and is something we have control over.

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  30. Nature V.S. Nurture
    Nature definitely does not have a side when it comes to caring about those around it whether it be us humans or any other living being. Nurture in my opinion is more important due to it having a stronger impact in one's life rather the nature(environment) around them. They do not get to chose where they want to grow up in but they can only rely on the teachings of their parents or guardians in the long run. This only works if the guardian is a good example to their responsibility. The teachings we get and that are burned into our mind’s will stay with us. This shapes our moral standards, personality, and mindset for better or worse. If one is to base their learning and teachings in nature and the environment, they will only take what they like in their lives. For that I believe that nurture is more important than nature for the most part.

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  31. Nature VS. Nurture

    This topic has been debated over and over again for years. And in my opinion I think it just depends on which characterization you are talking about in a human being. But when you bring this topic up in a matter of someones attitude I think that attitude is totally caused by nurture. The reason your attitude is caused by nurture or who you are nurtured from is because no one is born being "mean' or "nice" you became that way by the people you have surrounded yourself with as a child or for a long period of time. To say some one was born "mean" or "nice" would be a statement that is totally unrealistic.

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  32. I believe that the way we are is entirely dependent on how we are nurtured. While certain mental disabilities and emotional disorders are genetic traits, the way in which they're dealt with can definitely affect the outcome. If you are genetically predisposed to have an emotional disorder such as bipolar disorder or being a sociopath there are types of care and medications that can combat these disorders and with the help needed, many an overcome them. However, if someone has a disorder and is neglected on top of that then they are much more likely to let the disorder run their lives. My dad used to tell me a story about two monkeys, one raised on a wire cage and the other by a human and sleeping on their chest, the wire cage monkey turned out paranoid and was unable to learn basic commands while the other was significantly less nervous and far more intelligent. We, as humans, are pack animals and it makes sense that human affection and touch are vital to our upbringing. We are social creatures and to ignore that and focus solely on nature is to ignore who we are.

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  33. Nature is an essential factor in the making of who we are today. Nature is responsible for the genes that code our very existence. These codes allow us to be physically melded into an entity inherently genetic but this is not the only factor that plays a role in who we are today. Nurture may be able to explain adapted behaviors. Nurture is the way in which a living entity is raised and may results in how one carries him or herself in everyday life. This is apparent in twins being pulled away at birth and placed into very different living conditions and developing different behaviors. This example solidifies the assumption that nurture is vital in development. Although gender, and sexual orientation are not choices and do not result from environmental influences.

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  34. I believe it is a part of human nature to be affected by how we are nurtured. The human brain is hard wired to react to different scenarios but that is only after being taught that was as kids. If one isn't given the chance to learn that fundamental skill they may be affected and that goes under the nurture side. A lot of who we are is where we come from and the type of family or background we were raised into. However there are cases such as with psycho and sociopaths that one is simply born by nature to be as they are. They are born with the ability to empathize and that is mental illness that even the proper nourishment would most likely be unable to fix. We are hardwired differently and hardwired to be able to do good and bad and I believe it is the things around us that influence us enough to either bring out the good or the bad, it simply depends on how your nature is nurtured.

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  35. One of the oldest arguments in the history of psychology is the Nature vs Nurture debate. Each of these sides have good points that it's really hard to decide whether a person's development is predisposed in his DNA, or a majority of it is influenced by this life experiences and his environment.The coding of genes in each cell in us humans determine the different traits that we have, more dominantly on the physical attributes like eye color, hair color, ear size, height, and other traits. However, it is still not known whether the more abstract attributes like personality, intelligence, sexual orientation, likes and dislikes are gene-coded in our DNA, too.The nurture theory holds that genetic influence over abstract traits may exist; however, the environmental factors are the real origins of our behavior. This includes the use of conditioning in order to induce a new behavior to a child, or alter an unlikely behavior being shown by the child.

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  36. NATURE. The only thing that matters. If you need to be nurtured you shouldn't deserve to live. I believe that none of us or any other animals in the wild should be nurtured, actually ok you can be nurtured for a maximum length of 2 yrs depending on your species but other than that all you should rely on is nature and if you can't figure out how to live and fend for yourself then guess what? You die.

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  37. I don't understand the question, so I will now twist the question to my liking. I choose NATURE, because when you are raising a child, I think that nature alone could do a much better job than any mother nurturing that child. Have you ever seen the Jungle Book? Need I say anymore? Well i will anyways. Growing up in the wild, a child, if it survives, recieves many many more opportunities to grow in ways that a nurtured child would never experience in their entire lives. Because of this, that child would become a more well rounded and interesting individual, and who doesnt want to be like that. We cant all just be robots in the world, some of us have realized that and those are the children grown from nature. When you are raised in a world where everyone is trying to reach the same goal and be the same good student, you start to lack originality and uniqueness in your people. When everyone is the same and has had the same experiences in life, there is no discussion. Why argue when you all agree? Yet, we must not forget that these are the people that make up a majority of our society today, and that they are not just useless robots that walk around and do nothing. These people make up the hard working society that you see everyday, these people are the ones that advance society and create new inventions that help everyone prosper even more every day. Those that are natured instead are the ones that have the ability to add some spice to the day so that not everything is just monotone useless droning on. Point is, without either one of these types of people, we would be nothing like we are today. Without the nurture, we just have a bunch of philosophers walking around doing nothing all day. Without nature, we have robots working all night and day to progress a culture less civilization so that they may grow into a bigger community of robots.

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  38. I believe that both nature and nurture have a very big influence on who we are. Nature and genetics give us our physical features which determine how we interact and fit into society. But more than that I think nurture really determines who we are. The beliefs of our parents and others around us influences what we believe and to an extent can influence how our beliefs differ or adhere to society. Overall, the effects of the people around us make us who we are and how we treat each other.

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  39. Both nature and nurture are important aspects that shape us into who we are. If I had to choose a side, I would definitely choose nurture. Aspects of nurture include our early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding culture. I believe a person who experienced these things has a greater chance of succeeding in life. If a human being isn't nurtured as a young child, they will have a difficult time interacting with their surroundings.

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  40. Nurture: Humans are by nature a social species that relies on group cooperation, there is little that we can do to separate ourselves from this reality. However, there is one policy that we try incessantly to endorse as the way of the world, social darwinism. Whether or not that is the reality in nature it does not need to define us as a collective, as we have the ability to self-edit our own identity. Now you may pose a question, What the hell does social darwinism have to do with child rearing? It has everything to do with a strategy of ‘nature’ where only the fittest survive through free-range experiential learning and failure. This is far too blunt a method for us to utilize anylonger, its results are in many cases scarring and inhumane. Negative reinforcement or classical conditioning is inefficient and random in its results. Nurture simply gives structure to this process and incorporates classical conditioning and positive reinforcement techniques. Now of course this requires that parents have skills enough to raise a child with these techniques, which often is not the cases.

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  41. In the long debated case of nature versus nurture, I believe that it is nurture that is more important. Who we are inherently is not as effective on shaping us as the person we are taught to become. The common argument against this is that of the child who rebels against their parents lifestyle or choices, however in these cases it is merely an overexposure of nurture that causes this. Who we are is determined more by who we are raised to be, because while it may not be who we become, it does have a greater influence.

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