Nature Vs. Nurture Argument Analysis

In psychology, the term aggression refers to a range of behaviors that can result in both psychological and physical harm to oneself, other people or objects in the environment (Cherry, 2015). Aggression depends on both environmental and genetic factors. It is the result of both learned and inborn traits. Nature affects a person’s behaviour through the influence of genes, neurochemicals and hormones but the environment that they are expose in ,helps determine whether this “inborn aggressive gene” will be triggered or not. One strong argument for nature which is often brought out is that aggression is connected to a person’s DNA or genes. In simple words this implies that a person is naturally born with aggressive traits …show more content…
Any individual no matter what genes or heredity they might have, who are exposed in a severe difficult, violent and abusive environment at a young age will more likely to develop and grow up being aggressive and violent compared to children who are not ,which links this to the next nurture argument : Social Learning. “In psychological theory ,Social Learning is a learning behaviour that is learned observationally through modeling : from observing others. (Bandura, 1986).This experiment by Albert Bandura suggests that an individual aggressive behaviour can be learned from observing aggressive role models or from mimicking what an individual sees in their environment while growing up. (McLeod, 2011).It gives an insight on how we can learn new things and acquire new behaviors and attitude just by observing other people’s action. For example a child who has seen a violent act in the television portrayed by the media will likely copy the action seen from the role model and not being punished or reprimanded for their display of violence and aggression can result into carrying this behaviour to adulthood. This suggests the idea that the more an individual sees violence, while growing up, the more they are likely to become violent person