Debate Nature Vs Nurture

 

-Debatevs biological/genetic/ biological/genetic/hereditary factors Cultural/social/environmental factors/variables vs  (nurture) (nature) (genes) (genetic inheritance)

>Conclusion: Cultural and social factors are responsible for human bad behaviors (rather than  biological factors). ♦Anomie or Strain theory, Robert Merton proposes that people are delinquent because they can't achieve their goals using conventional means (so they turn to illegal means) !"## (criminologist) Albert Cohen states that disadvantages faced by lo$erclass men cause status frustration or strain leading to delinquency !""% (sociologist) Robert Agnew insists that anomie or strain theory can be used to e&plain crime and deviancy ome commit crimes because they are responding to a social situation *obert +erton ,-ven gender roles are cultural creations Margaret Mead once states that gender is 01 based on  biological differences bet$een se&es2 but rather reflects the conditioning of different societies

♦Michel Foucault claims that sometimes people misbehave2 because they $ant resist the po$er imposed by the higher class or authority2 $hich causes them stress and pressure (and is connected to the 3nomie train theory before) 4here thereand is po$er2 there isdiscussed resistance Foucault

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 The nature nature versus nurture nurture debate debate is one of the the oldest issues issues in psychology. The debate debate centers on the relative contributions of genetic inheritance and inheritance and  environm environmental ental factors factors to  to human development. Counter Plato and Descartes suggested [Some philosophers such as Plato  and Descartes  suggested that certain things are inborn,, or that they inborn they  occur occur  naturally naturally regardless Nativists take  regardless of environmental inuences. Nativists  take i nheritance.. the position that all or most behaviors and characteristics are the result of inheritance Advocates Advocate s of this point of view believe that all of our characteristics and behaviors are the result of evolution. enetic traits handed down from parents inuence the individual di!erences that make each person uni"ue.# uni"ue.# $My point Locke believed %ther well&known thinkers such as John as John  Locke  believed in what is known as  as tabula rasa, slate. According to this notion, which suggests that the mind begins as a blank slate. everything that we are and all of our knowledge is determined by our eperience. eperience.

 

!mpiricists take !mpiricists  take the position that all that  all or most behaviors and characteristics result from learning.. "ehaviorism learning "ehaviorism  is a good e'ample of a theory rooted in empiricism. The behaviorists believe behaviorists conditioning .  believe that all actions and behaviors are the results of conditioning.  John ". #atson #atson believed  Theorists such as as John  believed that people could be trained to do and become anything$ regardless of their genetic background background..

$ %ne e'ample of an empiricist psychology isthe Albert (anduras social*n learning theory. theory . According to the theory,theory peoplewithin learn by observing behavior of others. his famous (obo doll e'periment, e'periment, (andura demonstrated that children could learn aggressive behaviors simply by observing another person acting aggressively. +htt%'//%sychology"about"com/od/ninde&/g/nature-nurture"htm )

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