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Thus, contemporary models of brain development challenge the foundational constructs of the nature versus nurture formulation in psychology. The key to understanding the origins and emergence of both the brain and behavior lies in understanding how inherited and environmental factors are engaged in the dynamic and interactive processes that ...
Nature and nurture are commonly regarded as fundamental determinants of behavior, with nature referring to heredity or evolution, and nurture to the environment or learning.
The Origins of Nature Versus Nurture. For much of recorded history, the distinction between nature and nurture was a temporal divide between what a person is innately endowed with at birth, prior to experience (nature), and what happens thereafter (nurture).
The first 3 refer to the personal factors that influence mental health — the nature part. The latter refers to the contextual factors — the nurture part. This is the first of a 3-part series delving into the influence of nature and nurture on mental health.
In The Nature-Nurture Debates, Goldhaber reviews the four major perspectives on the issue – behavior genetics, environment, evolutionary psychology, and developmental systems theory – and ...
Abstract. The field of behavioural genetics unambiguously demonstrates that heritable individual differences exist and are important in explaining human behaviour. Despite this, some psychological perspectives ignore this research.
a new light on the long-standing nature-nurture debate of intelligence. Keywords intelligence, behavior genetics, cognitive ability, environmental effects, individual differences