Psychology affects our everyday lives. Real life events could be explained by psychological concepts. A event that recently happened was the Las Vegas shooting. The New York times wrote an article about the shooter Stephen Paddock and his life. The psychological concept of nature and nurture could have been the cause for Stephen's actions. A study done by Andrea T. Morehouse and the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, proves the psychological concept of nature and nurture by observing and recording the behaviors of grizzlies and the effect of the environment or heredity has on them. The results could help explain Stephens actions and how we could prevent another incident from happening again.
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On October first Stephen Paddock opened fire at a country concert in Las Vegas Nevada, killing over fifty nine people and injuring more than 525 people. Stephen was a retired postal worker and tax auditor. He was a son of bank robber and a secretary. He grew in a middle class family in California in the 1960s. Stephen followed the money, he jumped from I.R.S. to the aerospace industry and finally finding a money satisfying job as a real estate agent. Although he was very rich and a successful man, his life had many gloom moments. He had divorced twice causing him to start gambling. People said he had a arrogant attitude and wanted to be the boss of everybody. He was also said to have not been a novice gun collector. Stephen was the oldest of four kids. His father Patrick Benjamin Paddock was absent in his childhood, living life as a criminal. His father had also been described as an arrogant man. Patrick was on the F.B.Is most wanted list. After his father was put in prison Stephen in his twenties and thirties had to fight out of …show more content…
In the study grizzlies were tested to see if their parents being problem causing animals made the offsprings the same. But the experiment concluded that this was not the case and that how the environment the animal was raised up in and its experiences caused the grizzlys to be troublemakers. This could possibly explain what caused Stephen Paddock to act the way he did. The environment he was raised in could have contributed to his behavior liked it did in the grizzlys. The results of this experiment also gives us a possible way the issue could have been prevented. If Stephen was raised up in a positive environment and didn't have to struggle the results could have been different. The results show the environment a person is raised up in can have a major effect on them and their behavior. I think as a community as a whole we need to improve the condition of our environment to prevent people from turning bad. Just like in the experiment the grizzlys that were raised in a good environment did not cause any conflicts to the farmers or livestock, I think if we promote that same philosophy less incidents like this would
On October first Stephen Paddock opened fire at a country concert in Las Vegas Nevada, killing over fifty nine people and injuring more than 525 people. Stephen was a retired postal worker and tax auditor. He was a son of bank robber and a secretary. He grew in a middle class family in California in the 1960s. Stephen followed the money, he jumped from I.R.S. to the aerospace industry and finally finding a money satisfying job as a real estate agent. Although he was very rich and a successful man, his life had many gloom moments. He had divorced twice causing him to start gambling. People said he had a arrogant attitude and wanted to be the boss of everybody. He was also said to have not been a novice gun collector. Stephen was the oldest of four kids. His father Patrick Benjamin Paddock was absent in his childhood, living life as a criminal. His father had also been described as an arrogant man. Patrick was on the F.B.Is most wanted list. After his father was put in prison Stephen in his twenties and thirties had to fight out of …show more content…
In the study grizzlies were tested to see if their parents being problem causing animals made the offsprings the same. But the experiment concluded that this was not the case and that how the environment the animal was raised up in and its experiences caused the grizzlys to be troublemakers. This could possibly explain what caused Stephen Paddock to act the way he did. The environment he was raised in could have contributed to his behavior liked it did in the grizzlys. The results of this experiment also gives us a possible way the issue could have been prevented. If Stephen was raised up in a positive environment and didn't have to struggle the results could have been different. The results show the environment a person is raised up in can have a major effect on them and their behavior. I think as a community as a whole we need to improve the condition of our environment to prevent people from turning bad. Just like in the experiment the grizzlys that were raised in a good environment did not cause any conflicts to the farmers or livestock, I think if we promote that same philosophy less incidents like this would