College of Staten Island
Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:29:44 +0000

Nature versus nurture is one of the biggest questions in psychology. Nature consists the ideas that people are created a certain way at birth, people believe this is due to the genes that the person would gain from their parents. Do you believe that you are the person whom you have become due to your genealogy? The other route that people take is nurture. If you believe that you are the way you are because of your parents well then you came to the right place. Nurture followers have the belief that people are shaped from birth to become the person they are.

An example would be if a person is born into a family that all they do is steal, the child may see nothing wrong with that and continue to do what they learned. Yet in the same situation, the child could learn that everyone else around him/her finds the idea of stealing is socially wrong. Then the child has to make a decision to the actions that they are acting upon. It is whether they are right or wrong.

Nature

When a child is created the parent's genes are combined which create the embryo. Everyone was in this position, and everyone has their parents genes. Now as life continues there is a change that occurs in your genes. Once trigger genes can become silenced and the same the other way around. This results in the person will possibly result in them having to adapt to new things. Once a person may have been able to eat peanuts, but do to a change in their genes they can become allergic.

Nurture

The environment is always changing, so it makes sense that a person would change along with it. Image moving from the city life to a plain area with no internet. That means no wifi. I personally would die from no wifi, but back to the case. A person in a long time situation like this would have to adjust to the change.

How do you think you become the way you are?

When I have been asked this question I believe that I am the way that I have become through both nature and nurture. I believe my psychical appearance is from nature that my parent's genes created the way that I look. Yet, I believe my personality comes from my friends and family. I have wonder friends and a great family, I feel it has been with the help of them that I am the person I am today. If not for the lessons I learned such as what is right and what is wrong. I may have seen the world in a different spectrum. I am a strong believer that nurture is the main reason that we as human's act a certain way is because we are taught that certain way. Of course, people can be taught different ways to break out of old habits. Sometimes though it takes time, and there is also the chance a person may now want to listen to the new habit.

What do you think? Do you believe that you maybe the way you are because of nature or are you a person of nurture?