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  2. Nature versus nurture - Wikipedia

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    Nature versus nurture is a long-standing debate in biology and society about the relative influence on human beings of their genetic inheritance (nature) and the environmental conditions of their development (nurture). The alliterative expression "nature and nurture" in English has been in use since at least the Elizabethan period [1] and goes ...

  3. Nurture - Wikipedia

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    Nurture. Nurture is usually defined as the process of caring for an organism as it grows, usually a human. [1][2] It is often used in debates as the opposite of "nature", [a] whereby nurture means the process of replicating learned cultural information from one mind to another, and nature means the replication of genetic non-learned behavior.

  4. Francis Galton - Wikipedia

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    Author abbrev. (zoology) F. Galton, Galton. Sir Francis Galton FRS FRAI (/ ˈɡɔːltən /; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was a British polymath and the originator of eugenics during the Victorian era; his ideas later became the basis of behavioral genetics. [1][2] Galton produced over 340 papers and books.

  5. Interactionism (nature versus nurture) - Wikipedia

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    Interactionism (nature versus nurture) In the context of the nature-nurture debate, interactionism is the view that all human behavioral traits develop from the interaction of both "nature" and "nurture", that is, from both genetic and environmental factors. This view further holds that genetic and environmental influences on organismal ...

  6. John B. Watson - Wikipedia

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    John Dewey, H. H. Donaldson, Jacques Loeb. John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878 – September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, establishing it as a psychological school. [2] Watson advanced this change in the psychological discipline through his 1913 address at Columbia University ...

  7. Developmental psychology - Wikipedia

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    Developmental psychology is the scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult development, aging, and the entire lifespan. [1] Developmental psychologists aim to explain how thinking, feeling ...

  8. Innateness hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic nativism is the hypothesis that humans are born with some knowledge of language. It is intended as an explanation for the fact that children are reliably able to accurately acquire enormously complex linguistic structures within a short period of time. [3] The central argument in favour of nativism is the poverty of the stimulus.

  9. Le Roman de Silence - Wikipedia

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    Nature and Nurture were portrayed as comical, personified characters who act as part of Silence's conscience. They showed up around the time when Silence was twelve and at odds with her identity. Nature scolded Silence for conducting herself like a man and ruining the special mold that she used for Silence, almost convincing Silence to reveal ...