The Topic The Nature vs. Nurture is a debate of the cultural, scientific, and philosophical debate about whether behavior, human culture, and personality are caused by Nature vs. Nurture. Nature is defined in this debate as genetic or hormone based behaviors. Nurture is defined as the environment or experience. The Nature vs. Nurture is ongoing debate in many topics. The debate is centered around the effect genes have on human personalities as against to the influences that environment and the development it might have. There is a big controversy between whether inherited genes or the environment influences and effects our personality, development, intelligence, and behavior. Some people believe that it is strictly only genes that effect our ways of life. While others believe that it is the environment that effects us. Some believe that both of these influence us. Nature vs. Nurture is known as the longest philosophical topics that are being discussed. Controversy …show more content…
Nurture controversy has been one that has plagued psychology for decades and til today. It still remains a controversy. The term Nature vs. Nurture is a colloquial term for the two views of human development. One for heredity and the other environment. The Nature vs. Nurture controversy relates to the relative importance of an individual's innate qualities ("nature in the sense of nativism") as compared to an individual's personal experiences ("nurture" in the sense of empiricism or behaviorism) in causing individual differences especially in behavioral traits. The Nature vs. Nurture controversy is an old age dispute among behavioral psychologists, philosophers, theologians, and theorists of consciousness as to the source of the creation of human