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INFLUENCES OF NATURE AND NURTURE ON BEHAVIOR What roles do nature…
INFLUENCES OF NATURE AND NURTURE ON BEHAVIOR
What roles do nature and nurture play in learning and behavior? The nature-nurturedebate concerns whether behavior is the result of biological influences (nature) or the environmental stimulation to which each individual is exposed (nurture). Today, most psychologists typically agree that it is not one or the other, but both nature and nurture interact with one another.
Addiction Example: Research has indicated that if one or both of your parents have experienced problems with drug or alcohol addiction then you may be at a higher than average risk for struggling with addiction at one time or another, too. Is the risk factor primarily due to a possible hereditary component (nature), or due to environmental factors (e.g., parents are usually our role-models for behavior), or are both contributing factors?
The nature-nurture debate wrongly implies that there is a choice whereas in fact the two are inextricably intertwined, like the fibers of a rope; it is never entirely clear where one leaves off and the other begins. As such, the more accurate questions are: How much, and in what ways, does nature influence behavior, and how much, and in what ways, does nurture influence behavior? In this Discussion you will engage in a scholarly nature-nurture debate.
Learning resources.
Chance, P. (2014). Learning and behavior (7th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Chapter 1, “Introduction: Learning to Change”
Chapter 2, “The Study of Learning and Behavior”
American Psychological Association. (2016). Psychology topicsLinks to an external site.. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/topics
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PsychWiki. (n.d.). Psychology concepts.Links to an external site. Retrieved on October 22, 2016 from http://www.psychologyconcepts.com/category/entire-list/
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In the first line of your post, please indicate your assigned topic (e.g., Nature & Depression) so that your colleagues will be able to determine which posts they are to respond to (please see the Post by Day 5 directions).
In the body of your post, a brief description of your topic (fewer than 50 wordssimilar to the “Addiction Example” presented earlier).
For the topic, explain one way in which nature influences behavior, and one way in which nurture influences behavior, and provide at least one supporting example for each way.
Based on your last name assignment, make the case for why nature, or nurture, has the stronger influence on behavior. Although there is an interaction among nature and nurture, for the purpose of this Discussion, you are to take a stance on why the one that was assigned to you is more prominent.
Be sure to support the responses within your Discussion post, and in your colleague reply, with evidence from the assigned Learning Resources.
my topic is
Nature and Post-traumatic stress.
