It is known that for decades there have been scientific research (debates) conducted among psychologists and criminologists to learn how adolescents, juveniles, and even adults become criminals. Is the person destined to be a criminal from birth? Is it the parent’s fault in how a child is raised? Those are just two of the many questions that have been hypothesized when trying to look at nature and nurture theories. Does a person typically end up becoming a criminal because of inherited genes or does that happen because the environment in which a person is in affects their personality, developments, behaviors, and intelligence?
Nature theory states that the intelligence of an individual is inherited and is a function of the genetic makeup (Siegel, …show more content…
This study was labeled “famous” because it captured the behavior of two pairs of twins who in one case, were raised together and in the other was separated at birth. What was shocking to know was that in the twins raised apart, there were some striking similarities in their behaviors. The study concluded that “an identical twin reared away from his or her co-twin seems to have about an equal chance of being similar to the co-twin in terms of personality, interests, and attitudes as one who has been reared with his or her co-twin” (Siegel, 2011 pg. 80). What that means to me is that, twins who have been raised in completely different environments can share the same deep rooted traits as twins that are raised together because of their genetic makeup and not much so their …show more content…
Albert Bandura created the social learning theory and he suggests that people can learn new information and behaviors by watching other people. He also states that when a child is born, they are born with a blank mental state and all of that child’s behavior is learned through experience (Siegel, 2011). Upon research, I found that Bandura conducted a study to investigate if social behaviors can be acquired by observations and imitation, He named his study “bobo doll experiment”. In this experiment, he placed in a room 24 children to an aggressive role model, 24 children to a non-aggressive role model, and 24 children with no model (control group). His findings were quite shocking. He discovered that after the role model was left and they asked the children to play with their toys the children who were exposed to the violent behavior started to imitate the violent behavior with their toys and the children who were exposed to non-aggressive behavior showed less aggression with their toys. The control group showed little to no violence. It also showed where there was a male role model showing aggression the boy child would be the one to show aggression and vice versa (McLeod,
Nature theory states that the intelligence of an individual is inherited and is a function of the genetic makeup (Siegel, …show more content…
This study was labeled “famous” because it captured the behavior of two pairs of twins who in one case, were raised together and in the other was separated at birth. What was shocking to know was that in the twins raised apart, there were some striking similarities in their behaviors. The study concluded that “an identical twin reared away from his or her co-twin seems to have about an equal chance of being similar to the co-twin in terms of personality, interests, and attitudes as one who has been reared with his or her co-twin” (Siegel, 2011 pg. 80). What that means to me is that, twins who have been raised in completely different environments can share the same deep rooted traits as twins that are raised together because of their genetic makeup and not much so their …show more content…
Albert Bandura created the social learning theory and he suggests that people can learn new information and behaviors by watching other people. He also states that when a child is born, they are born with a blank mental state and all of that child’s behavior is learned through experience (Siegel, 2011). Upon research, I found that Bandura conducted a study to investigate if social behaviors can be acquired by observations and imitation, He named his study “bobo doll experiment”. In this experiment, he placed in a room 24 children to an aggressive role model, 24 children to a non-aggressive role model, and 24 children with no model (control group). His findings were quite shocking. He discovered that after the role model was left and they asked the children to play with their toys the children who were exposed to the violent behavior started to imitate the violent behavior with their toys and the children who were exposed to non-aggressive behavior showed less aggression with their toys. The control group showed little to no violence. It also showed where there was a male role model showing aggression the boy child would be the one to show aggression and vice versa (McLeod,