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Does Nature Or Nurture Make Up Who We Are?

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For years people have been debating whether Nature or Nurture make up who we are and now we find out. Nature is our genetics what are parents have given us that make the color of our eyes or the color of our hair but that makes us up physically not mentally or emotionally. Nurture is the environment we grew up and how we adapted to the environment this is focused more on the mental and social level of who we are. Nurture is more Important than being that it is focused on the mentally a social levels. First, in the rat experiment at first the smarter rats did better than the dumb rats by a landslide but, when the were both given a better living environment they both performed exceptionally well. Last when the rats were given a bad environment they both failed the same amount of times which was the worst possible. To explain, the rats at first were doing alright for rats but when both groups had a better environment the did way better and this proves that the environment the were living makes a stronger improvement than how smart they were before hand. …show more content…

Later she was shown to social situations and she had improved and became slightly easier to teach. To reiterate, Jenie was given a horrible environment to live in for 11 years and after 1-2 years in a fair environment she had improved mentally and socially. This means that even with a long time in a bad environment for a long time a short time in a fair environment you can

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