Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Nature v Nurture

Do you believe that nature or nurture plays a more important role in development? Explain.

20 comments:

Justin said...

I think nurture plays a more important role in development because you can nurture the kids when they are younger and the will follow what ever u teach them.

Tiffany Hall said...

Justin, good point. Do you feel like it worked with you?

iyesha said...

I think that nurture is more important becouse if you raise a child right and teach them correct values the rest is up to them and how they precive it but most of the time the child will follow what they are tought so nature would not realy play a role in the hole process

Brantley said...

Nurture plays the biggest role in development. The way you are raised determines what type of person you will be. A child raised by another family normally turns out to be like the people who raised him or her instead of the biological parents.

Rasheed Jones said...

Rasheed I think nuture is the biggest aspect between nature and nuture because you would want somebody to care for you in life first before there is any nature in life something i think will be easy to pick up because it nature like surival of the fittest.

Br00ke said...

I think nurture plays a more important role when raising a child because how they act and behave isnt up to genetics, its up to their rasing and experience.

Lydia said...

I think that both nature and nurture play an equally important role in a persons life. You can nurture a child and hope that they follow what you teach them but eventually nature is going to step in and they will be influenced by their enviroment. But once they realize that the worlds way is not the way they want to go they will go back to the ways you tought them because really it is what they know best.

I completely agree with Iyesha once you have taught and raised a child the rest is up to them to figure out for themselves.

Shirvonna said...

I think taht nurture is more important because if you are nurturing your child the right way, then you will see how nature takes a toll on your child.

Corey H said...

I do not believe that one has a signigicant overbaring influence than the other. Both play significant roles in the development of a persons behaviors and personality. the environment in which a person is raised can have a major influence on them, but then again whether or not they get positive or negative influence from the people around them can also be either very helpful or very dettramental to the person

Anonymous said...

I dont think either nature or nurture cac fully be held responsible for a person development. A person that comes from a reputable family and is raised by good parents can still become some crazy pzyko killer or something. I believe that a persons development comes from themselves. Not what their DNA code says or who raised them. Its a choice..

Matt said...

nurture plays a more improtant role that nature does. if you and you twin are seperated at birth and one of you goes and is raised in the country and one in the projects, you are not going to act the same

Anonymous said...

I think that nurture affects development however i also agree with kyle in that it is all up to choices and the choices are affected by nurturing

Anonymous said...

i think that nurtue plays the bigger role out of the two. the amount of nurturing that you recieve from your parents as a young child can determine how you will act once you grow older.

Anonymous said...

I think nurture and nature are equally important. You can nurture a child when they are young and most likely they will follow your guidence. You could also nurture them and then they would rebel. They could hang out witht the wrong crowd just inspite of you. Even though the parent taught them how to act "properly", they kid could still just rebel and do exactly what they were taught not to do simply because they want to.

I agree with Kyle. Even though you can teach someone everything you know. They are they ones that choose what is right and wrong for themselves.

Anonymous said...

I think that nurture and nature both have an equal role in development. How you raise your kids and what you teach them is important but in then end they're going to have a lot going on around them. So that could effect their outcome.

I agree with kyle, he makes a good point.

shetika said...

nuture is more important, because the way you nuture a child make them part of who they're going to be later in life. nature is impotant also, because the enviroment around them reflects back on them in the futre so in a way they both are important.

shetika said...

BRANTLEY........ your right, but do you think that the child would still have the same characteristics as their birth parents, or will they grow out of them as they learn new thing from the people raising them????? have a nice day:)

Delayni said...

i definitely feel that nurture plays a more important role in the development of a child. Especially after watching the videos about feral children. i realized that if a child is not given the nurturing that they need they can become almost unhuman.

Anonymous said...

I think nurture plays a bigger role because as justin said kids will follow what you teach them.

Anonymous said...

I think that nurture is far more important than nature as far as development goes. We've talked about puberty being two years earlier now. Also, our speech is simply regurgitated speech from other people we've heard.

P.S.
Mrs. Hall, do you think that human perception is more nature or nurture?