Unit 7 Assignment: APA Style In-Text Citations and References (PSY101 Fundamentals of Psychology)

PSY101 TERM 2 UNIT 5 DB 1

PSY101 Term 2 Unit 5 DB

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When it comes to human development, both nature and nurture have the strongest impact. Though nature has a higher effect than nurture, it is evident that the two determines the quality of behavior and overall personality the child is likely to develop. According to Fulker & Eysenck, 2019) nature is comprised of the genes and all hereditary factors that make up the unique physical appearance, physiology and personality. On the other hand, nurture is comprised of the environmental factors that have a direct impact on a person’s growth for instance culture, social relationships, childhood experience, the quality of environment that one lives in, and family among many others.

Starting with nature, when a child is conceived, he/she has genes obtained from the parents and this means that automatically the child acquires some traits of the mother and that of the father. It is for this reason that in the case the child is not exposed to outside world after birth or even fails to know his/her parents, the child would automatically have some similarities with biological parents for instance in physical look, way of thinking, way of handling and reacting to issues, and other unique things the child may inherit from parents though genes. However, despite nature being natural, there is also the environment in which the child grows in. it is in this environment that the child gets exposed to a lot of other factors with potential of affecting personality.

For instance, a child’s parents might be humble, peaceful and of good values but the child is brought up in a family where violence is the order to the day. The environment in this case being nurture gets to expose the child whose brain is in early stages of development to violent as being way of solving issues. Such exposure tends to have a permanent impact on the child as the child is likely to learn and make use of that behavior in the future. This is to mean that as conditional learning teaches, what the child learns tends to reflect in overall behavior.

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Fulker, D. W., & Eysenck, H. J. (2019). Nature and nurture: Heredity. In  The Structure & Measurement of Intelligence (pp. 102-132). Routledge.