Did you know that there are more than 260 species of monkeys (Bradford, 2014)? Now, before you ask yourself, “Who Cares?”… Be nice, I do. I’ve always had a serious fascination with monkeys; everything about them reminds me of humans, from their mischievous behavior to their overt physical resemblance. All I ever wanted to do was hug and squeeze it and feed it bananas, dress him up and walk and hold its hand. They are the cutest little things I have ever seen. With all that being said, obviously I chose to cover Harlow’s Monkey Experiments. The Harlow experiment leads me to believe that the little monkeys want the same thing that not just I do, but we do as humans. We as humans, especially Americans and Western Civilization people, tend to want
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The Nature argument says that we are the way we are because we inherited it from our parents, through genes. Genes are a specific sequence of nucleotides in DNA or RNA that is located usually on a chromosome and that is the functional unit of inheritance controlling the transmission and expression of one or more traits by specifying the structure of a particular polypeptide and especially a protein or controlling the function of other genetic material (Merriam Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary, 2016), or the part of a cell that determines the physical aspects of a human, plant, animal, or living thing. The genes determines what our eyes look like, how tall we are, if the plant is harry or fuzzy, if it’s short and bright green, things of that nature, no pun intended. However, in this argument it hasn’t been proven that genetics directly influence the behavior of a person/subject.
The Nurture argument says that we learn our behaviors from environment or surroundings. Environmentalists – also known as empiricists. Their basic assumption is that at birth the human mind is a tabula rasa (a blank slate) and that this is gradually “filled” as a result of experience (McLeod,
The Nature argument says that we are the way we are because we inherited it from our parents, through genes. Genes are a specific sequence of nucleotides in DNA or RNA that is located usually on a chromosome and that is the functional unit of inheritance controlling the transmission and expression of one or more traits by specifying the structure of a particular polypeptide and especially a protein or controlling the function of other genetic material (Merriam Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary, 2016), or the part of a cell that determines the physical aspects of a human, plant, animal, or living thing. The genes determines what our eyes look like, how tall we are, if the plant is harry or fuzzy, if it’s short and bright green, things of that nature, no pun intended. However, in this argument it hasn’t been proven that genetics directly influence the behavior of a person/subject.
The Nurture argument says that we learn our behaviors from environment or surroundings. Environmentalists – also known as empiricists. Their basic assumption is that at birth the human mind is a tabula rasa (a blank slate) and that this is gradually “filled” as a result of experience (McLeod,