For centuries, the argument of Nature Versus Nurture has been debated among both the psychological and philosophical community. The debate has been noted to have begun as early as 350 BC between philosophers Aristotle and Plato. Aristotle argued his side of Nurture, which states that all humans are born with a “blank slate”. We have no predisposed knowledge; we acquire everything through our surroundings and experiences. On the opposite side of the matter is Plato whom defended his partaking in Nature which states that we are born with everything we will ever know in life and that our surroundings and experiences just “refresh” our memory – We don’t really learn anything new, rather, we are just reminded of it. Hundreds of years later, there
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When the female monkeys gave birth, Harry saw his experiment develop unexpectedly into something further. The trauma that the female primates had endured shaped their motherly behavior. The mothers would often abuse their children in violent ways. There was record of one mother crushing her child’s skull while another one sat on top of their child’s chest and began to gnaw on the infant’s fingers and hands until they were no more. Body limbs were ripped off as well and tossed around the cage – The mothers were obviously exploiting the torture they had been through at the hands of Harry Harlow in his experiment that was primarily intended for primate research, but had ended up evolving into a major factor in the Nurture Versus Nature debate. Another example of Nurture being the predominant force in the psychology field of how humans are shaped is a person’s genetic health. For example, heart disease may be a hereditary factor in a family – Passed on from generation to generation. The argument of nature would defend the theory that such predisposed diseases are incurable and since our family members before us suffered through it then so do
When the female monkeys gave birth, Harry saw his experiment develop unexpectedly into something further. The trauma that the female primates had endured shaped their motherly behavior. The mothers would often abuse their children in violent ways. There was record of one mother crushing her child’s skull while another one sat on top of their child’s chest and began to gnaw on the infant’s fingers and hands until they were no more. Body limbs were ripped off as well and tossed around the cage – The mothers were obviously exploiting the torture they had been through at the hands of Harry Harlow in his experiment that was primarily intended for primate research, but had ended up evolving into a major factor in the Nurture Versus Nature debate. Another example of Nurture being the predominant force in the psychology field of how humans are shaped is a person’s genetic health. For example, heart disease may be a hereditary factor in a family – Passed on from generation to generation. The argument of nature would defend the theory that such predisposed diseases are incurable and since our family members before us suffered through it then so do