Nature and nurture evaluation

by woods3381 (student)

Health & Social Care D1

Nature has a lot of factual information that has an effect on individual’s behaviour. Both nature and nurture have strengths and weaknesses. Twins can be a huge example of how both of their nature and nurture can have an effect on their behaviour.

Most people believe that nurture has a stronger and influential point to how individual behaviour and development is inherited. According to Ceci and Williams both biological and environmental influences has an effect on an individual’s development. There have been arguments made that the type of environment can have an effect on the development of an individual, so if you live in a rich environment your behaviour and development are going to be different to someone who lives in a poor environment. Both nature and nurture cannot give us the right reason for human development, so they both have to be merged together in order to find the solution. Nature and nature are beginning to become more alike according to research. According to a psychology book individuals mature at different ages this depends on their genes, this is when patterns in that individual body will change, so this is one of nature’s strengths. Watson a psychologist sees individuals as a substance that can be shaped and bend depending on the environment, he also believed that the environment can make a young person become a specific type of adult when they are older this is also one of nurtures strengths. He never believed in the idea of inheritance and talent. He never believed that the nature debate was fully the reason for individuals’ behaviour.

This is a preview of the whole essay

Freud’s and Piagets theories state that both experience and maturation are as important as each other. Freud’s believe that sexual instinct is not as important as people’s reaction to a child’s sexual needs. Piagets believes that having the ability to think logically includes the way they have been built from their mental structure during the Childs relations with its environment, this is also strength of nurture. According to research people make and is influenced by their own environment. People usually refer environment to post-natal. Plomin, 1996; Rutter & Rutter 1992, these two people said that that non-shared environment had a more impact on children development than the shared environment. Research have proven that the effect of a non shared environment have gone lower over the past year. Pike & Plomin found out that there are similarities between an adopted child and their career, this also prove that the environment can have an impact on children’s behaviour. Behaviour genetic is the best source that has an effect on the behaviour development of individuals. Research has also shown that human traits are determined by nature and also nurture.

Some psychologist uses twins for example have twins who does not live together and also twins who live in the same environment as each other and they have realise that the ones that live together are well mannered but one is diagnosed with leaning disability and the other is alright. This also is one of nature’s strengths that prove that although they live in the same environment there genes still have a huge effect on their learning. The psychologist also realised that the twin who was brought up in a different environment act differently and also have a different height and weight. This also supports the nurtures debate.

Conclusion

There are not a lot of weaknesses in the nature and nurture debate but they seem to have enough evidence to support their case.

Most researchers believe that human traits can be from both nature and nurture, even though they disagree about contribution to certain parts of it. A lot of researchers are starting to learn that biological does not mean genetic, but the term biological can relate to environment. Around 1950 people started to think about the nature nurture, in 1960 people started to have a more balanced view of it, in 1980 and 90s people more believed in the nature debate. But in the 20th and 21st century people are still questioning how we develop our behaviour.