“All the environmental variables that impact who we are, including our early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding culture, refers to nurture.”
Empiricists believed that all or most behaviors and characteristics result from learning. ‘Behaviorism’ is one of the examples. According to behaviorists all our actions and behaviors are the results of conditioning. Theorists such as John B. Watson believed that ‘people could be trained to do and become anything, regardless of their genetic background.’
According to the Albert Bandura’s learning theory, one can learn by observing the behavior of others. Parenting styles and learned experiences influences a person’s behavior. For example, to say please and thank you a child passed through observation and reinforcement on the other hand the other child might learn to behave aggressively by observing older children engaging in violent behavior on the play-ground.
A variety of factors that refers to nurture are:
• Education
• Culture
• Living conditions
According to researchers those children who raised in wealthier and educated households grow up to be smarter than those children who brought up in poor …show more content…
The basement of the psychological building at standford University comprised of three small cells each housing three men and one small unit room for solitary confinement for prisoners. Guards’ uniform with a button and whistle for symbols of control and power but guards were not allowed to use physical punishments. The experiment had to be stopped after just 6 days instead of the planned fourteen days because guards became verbally and physically aggressive whereas, prisoners became depersonalized. The assigned role affected the behavior of the normal students in their allocated
Empiricists believed that all or most behaviors and characteristics result from learning. ‘Behaviorism’ is one of the examples. According to behaviorists all our actions and behaviors are the results of conditioning. Theorists such as John B. Watson believed that ‘people could be trained to do and become anything, regardless of their genetic background.’
According to the Albert Bandura’s learning theory, one can learn by observing the behavior of others. Parenting styles and learned experiences influences a person’s behavior. For example, to say please and thank you a child passed through observation and reinforcement on the other hand the other child might learn to behave aggressively by observing older children engaging in violent behavior on the play-ground.
A variety of factors that refers to nurture are:
• Education
• Culture
• Living conditions
According to researchers those children who raised in wealthier and educated households grow up to be smarter than those children who brought up in poor …show more content…
The basement of the psychological building at standford University comprised of three small cells each housing three men and one small unit room for solitary confinement for prisoners. Guards’ uniform with a button and whistle for symbols of control and power but guards were not allowed to use physical punishments. The experiment had to be stopped after just 6 days instead of the planned fourteen days because guards became verbally and physically aggressive whereas, prisoners became depersonalized. The assigned role affected the behavior of the normal students in their allocated