I never understood this term can you please explain it
Best Answer:
athleticscholar at 22 May,2013
It just means genes vs. experience. Some psychologists used to believe that a person's personality is due to experience alone (all the things we've learned and experienced in life), while another group used to believe that our personalities are determined by the genes we've inherited from our parents. This is the nature vs. nurture debate: How much of our behaviour/personality is due to genes and how much of it is due to experience. We now know that our personalities are the result of BOTH nature and nurture (genes and our experiences).
Other Answers:
- It just means genes vs. experience. Some psychologists used to believe that a person's personality is due to experience alone (all the things we've learned and experienced in life), while another group used to believe that our personalities are determined by the genes we've inherited from our parents. This is the nature vs. nurture debate: How much of our behaviour/personality is due to genes and how much of it is due to experience. We now know that our personalities are the result of BOTH nature and nurture (genes and our experiences).
- If you did any biology it is a similar concept to genotype vs phenotype.
Nature is the way you are designed and would be inevitably irrespective of what happened in life and nurture refers to environmental influences like upbringing having an effect on your personality. - What is learned and what is instinct, nature is like, we know how to breathe, while nurture is like we are taught how to act.
- It is
biology which is physiology and genes, stuff like that
vs
specific environmental experiences and general experiences
