Reflective Essay: Nature Vs. Nurture

I was born into a family with my mother, father and my 6 siblings. We all lived on the family farm and it was a very great experience. My four brothers and I did lots of outside work with my father . However, my sister helped my mother with the inside work and made sure the food was ready for the fellows after a long day of work. Our family grew up i the small town of Tabor City. Tabor City is a small town in southeastern North Carolina. It also border a small South Carolina town called Loris. Everyone who resided around Tabor City was either family or close friends with one another. Even though Tabor City has a little history of racism, everyone one in my childhood days managed to stick up for one another. “It takes a village to raise a child”, this statement was the statement used a lot just to remind us that wherever we are and we act out. It was okay for anyone to right our wrongs I’m honestly thankful because we all respect one another. My personality growing up was very childish and playful. I was immature and always doing something to get me in trouble. Basically, I was the class clown in school. However, my attitude started to change …show more content…
Nature and Nurture are classifications that basically separate innate behaviors from learned behaviors. For example, the innate behavior of a dog would be drinking milk for its mother. A learned behavior would be a dog being taught to fetch, sit, to basically follow human commands. A dog drinking milk from its mother is an example of innate behavior is because that is something that comes natural for survival to the dog. A dog being taught to follow human commands is an example of learned behavior because the dog wasn’t born able to just follow commands, it had to be taught by someone. As a result, nature once again is the focus on genetic explanations of behavior. Nurture’s simplest definition would be actions learned from