Nature versus nurture has been a controversial topic for a very long time. Many individuals argue that you experience one or the other during your development stages. While others may suggest that a little of both takes a factor in how an individual development in their life. If a person feels that nature influenced them the most, they believe that the things surrounding them such as their families, parents, and friends, took an effect on their behavior (Nature. (n.d.), 2016). In the process of nurture, a person believes that the affection or attention being shown to the child while they are developing has the effect on how they become later in their lives (Nurture. (n.d.), 2016). From personal experience, I believe that it is that helped me
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So as a kid, my mother quickly put us on a weekly schedule that we were expected to follow no matter what. So I do believe that behavior patterns are fixed. Especially as a young kid when you are exposed to the same activities and environments throughout your life, you pick up habitats without even knowing. For example, growing up every morning when I woke up my mother would always come in my room before work to ensure that I had straighten up my room and made up the bed before leaving for school. Now that I am about to be twenty-one and live out on my own; I still get up every morning to straighten and make up my bed just as I have done for so many years. This is an example of how I feel nurture played a huge role in my development because the repetition of events allowed me to continue them now. Another thought of fixed behavior is determinism. According to simplypsychology.org, determinism is the thought of how individual will turn out to be based on the certain environment (McLeod, 2013). An example would be that an individual growing up with alcoholic parents will more than likely become alcoholics themselves. In coherence with nurture determinism depends upon the action set forth before that helps determine the …show more content…
Their body is so confident in the things that they do every day till there is often no need or want for change. Unlike nature, which is what you are generally born with, nurture encourages consistency due to the experiences the individual go through. In a way consistency and being fixed in a behavior set goes hand and hand. If an individual becomes set in a mind state are easily able to continue that same attitude throughout their life. For example, I have been involved in various activities at one time such as cheerleading, school, and managing a job, and my body quickly got in a state that each week it already knew the exact schedule ahead because it became to be the same each week. At that moment, the environment that I presented my body with each week helped my body develop a sense of memory and
So as a kid, my mother quickly put us on a weekly schedule that we were expected to follow no matter what. So I do believe that behavior patterns are fixed. Especially as a young kid when you are exposed to the same activities and environments throughout your life, you pick up habitats without even knowing. For example, growing up every morning when I woke up my mother would always come in my room before work to ensure that I had straighten up my room and made up the bed before leaving for school. Now that I am about to be twenty-one and live out on my own; I still get up every morning to straighten and make up my bed just as I have done for so many years. This is an example of how I feel nurture played a huge role in my development because the repetition of events allowed me to continue them now. Another thought of fixed behavior is determinism. According to simplypsychology.org, determinism is the thought of how individual will turn out to be based on the certain environment (McLeod, 2013). An example would be that an individual growing up with alcoholic parents will more than likely become alcoholics themselves. In coherence with nurture determinism depends upon the action set forth before that helps determine the …show more content…
Their body is so confident in the things that they do every day till there is often no need or want for change. Unlike nature, which is what you are generally born with, nurture encourages consistency due to the experiences the individual go through. In a way consistency and being fixed in a behavior set goes hand and hand. If an individual becomes set in a mind state are easily able to continue that same attitude throughout their life. For example, I have been involved in various activities at one time such as cheerleading, school, and managing a job, and my body quickly got in a state that each week it already knew the exact schedule ahead because it became to be the same each week. At that moment, the environment that I presented my body with each week helped my body develop a sense of memory and