The Nurture Assumption

chronicles the life of a manmade “daemon” and his creator; simultaneously, the two wreak havoc on each other’s lives. The ultimate question proposed throughout the novel asks whether the daemon corrupts society or if society corrupts him. Nature versus nurture is a long-debated topic in the psychological field; not only can the argument vouch for humans, but it can also apply to Frankenstein’s daemon. Specifically, through the daemon’s interactions with the humans around him, it is evident that…

Victor Hugo once said. “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” In essence, music is the not the cause, but the effect of an individual’s circumstances and culture. Contradictory to this hypothesis, there are skeptics that believe art is the cause and culture is the effect. Is one solely right or do both ideas hold validity? In the article “Rap Music and Its Violent Progeny: America's Culture of Violence in Context” written by Jeanita W. Richardson…

Nature vs. Nurture is the argument that either nature or nurture determines one’s lifestyle and characteristics. Development of the body and an individual’s sex determines nature because of the body’s natural functions. The body’s functions in development are influenced by hormones. Nature influences the human need to be apart of a group. This in- group and out-group characteristic is what makes up different cultures. Nature has more of an impact on human way of life, than nurture does.…

Frankenstein failed to be the Mother that his monster needed. Motherhood befalls those who birth a child. Whether they want it is another idea, but regardless of their wants they have created a new being that they usually feel the instinctual need to nurture. This instinct is supposedly ingrained in all Mothers, but their instinct only follows one rule: keep the created being alive until it “grows up”. The means used by Mothers to keep their children alive to adulthood have great variance that…

way you may act and like nurture is on this side because you can be the same height and read each other's mind or stuff like that. Is the way twins are raised and there behavior like things that may have happened at home like getting abused but the two twins girls that we learned about were not abused and is the personality types and they can do so many cool stuffs in nurture like read eachothers minds or like the same things they like such as pizza or apples. “Nurture your mind with great…

sense of naturism or innatism. Nurture is the sense of empiricism or behavior. When it comes to natural characteristics of a person is quite similar or quite different to the unnatural characteristics of a person. When you have natural characteristics the traits comes from their parents. You have the ones people are born with are genetic. The traits of nature are developed biologically. The nurture characteristics are traits you develop after they are born. The nurture traits a person that…

This chapter talks about mental testing in America. James Cattell and Galton believed that intelligence is hereditary. Henry Herbert Goddard shared a similar view to James Cattell and Galton. He conducted a study in the heredity of feeblemindedness and wrote a book called “Kallikak Family.” Ligthner Witmer was an environmentalist and he believed that hereditary was an excuse for an action. One of the research psychiatrists in this area was Alfred Binet. Theodor Simone joined Binet’s team and…

With the emerging consensus that both genetics and the environment play a vital role in human development, researchers have begun understanding how different types of environments that infants are reared in begets the individual differences in cognitive ability. It is thought that individual differences in cognitive ability among children raised in a socioeconomically advantaged -as opposed to disadvantaged homes- are primarily due to genes, whereas environmental factors are more influential for…

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…

our genetic makeup inherited from birth. Nature has influenced my development by inheriting a great capacity of eumelanin in my skin, creating more protection against absorbed UV radiation. Nature has also influenced my ability to sing very well. Nurture is the idea that our environment throughout our life from infants to adults determines who we are as individuals. Many humans live in different environments that effect their outlook and progression of life. Whether being influenced by a…