Nature vs Nurture
For many years now society and psychologists have been studying and debating a major issue. This issue is whether heredity or environment plays a greater role in the determining or shaping of an individuals behaviour. In other words this issue is known as the nature versus nurture debate. In this debate there are three main topics, intelligence, personality, and behaviour. From the evidence below it will reveal how heredity and environment affect each of these. My personal opinions are that this debate is not solved by one determining force but by a combination of the two. Both heredity and environment play an equal and crucial role in individual behaviours. In terms of heredity affecting intelligence, the question here is do genetic influences such as genes affect an individuals intellectual ability or IQ? This area of genetics is a very controversial one. Studies have shown that IQ testing of identical twins are virtually similar, even identical twins when being reared separately have similar IQ scores. Could this be from a similarity in being reared or the similarity of their genes? Fraternal twins who share half of each other’s genes, are much less similar in IQ scores. There have also been studies conducted where
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Approximate Word count = 2156
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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