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Behavioural Psychology: Nature Vs Nurture by ElixirDavid(m): 6:53am On Jan 06, 2018
NATURE VS NURTURE

Have you ever wondered where your black eyes and black skin came from? So you really know you inherited them from your mother or father? Fine, you could have inherited them as normal, but have you ever thought about your ability to design and your parent's inability to design? If you've been inheriting your characters and general behaviours from your parents, then where did the love and passion for design hail from?
The nature-nuture debate is a lifetime debate that emanated from the roots of behavioural psychology. This debate tends to show the gap between what is inherited and what is learnt. Nature is concerned with claim that the aspects of human behaviour are results of inheritance. The genes of certain traits are passed down to generations (i.e parent to child) and are biologically influenced Nature acclaims that the concepts of an individual's behaviour could be traced upwards to the previous generation. Definitely, that could have explained where your black eyeballs came from. Interestingly, you love singing just as your mother does, does that interprets that you inherited singing from your mother?
It's indeed a truth universally acknowledged that certain individual traits and behaviours are biologically determined. Generally, majority of Black Africans in diaspora have a dark-brown skin pigmentation, short and standing hair of black colour and as well black eyeballs. Could all these traits have been a result of genetical make ups?
When your parents are terrible at designing and you're as good as anyone anybody could have imagined in designing, where could that have originated from? Interestingly, in another angle of behavioural psychology, NURTURE acclaims that some aspects of human behaviour are socially learnt or acquired. In other terms, nurture is accepted to be the influences on human behaviour as a result of external factors or learning and it begins from infancy. You could have thought of where that passion to design came from. Did you remember seeing any designer designer and you felt you liked it? or have you ever seen a design and you thought you could do it as well? Affirmatively, something must have ignited your passion or someone must have inoculated that passion on you; think about it.
What takes dominance is determining an individual's behaviour, is it what is learnt from the environment or what is inherited and carried on the genes? The kleptomaniac behavior of a neighbour in the neighbourhood, have you ever thought if he or she learnt it or has it passed down to him?
In Conclusion, it is debatable that nature and nurture have equal or unequal influences in determining human behaviour. What has more influence in determining human behaviour since nature and nurture are opposing counterparts?

*AMODU, ABIDEEN DAVID*

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