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Nature vs Nurture (Psychology Debate Explained) #Alevel

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    - [Narrator] What is the nature
    and nurture in psychology?
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    Nature describes
    behaviors that are innate,
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    that are born to us or
    genetically determined
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    by our genes and DNA.
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    Nurture describes
    behaviors that are acquired
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    as a result of experience
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    or because of environmental influences.
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    This debate centers on
    whether particular behaviors
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    are mainly or entirely innate, born
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    or genetically determined,
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    or whether they're acquired for experience
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    or the influence of the environment.
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    Traditionally, both of the nature
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    and nurture viewpoints of
    human behavior were considered
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    to be determinist and didn't
    give any scope for free will.
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    However, increasingly,
    people acknowledge that a lot
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    of behavior comes about through a mixture
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    of inborn predispositions and
    environmental experiences,
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    i.e., a mixture of nature and nurture,
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    and interaction between the two.
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    The debate is also closely
    linked with reductionism
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    because extreme nature
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    or extreme nurture arguments
    are by definition reductionist.
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    By saying that some aspect
    of behavior is solely caused
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    by genes or solely caused by experience.
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    It could be seen as a
    reductionist argument.
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    There are many nature-nurture debates
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    in psychological theory,
    however, these often tend
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    to be historical rather than current.
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    Nowadays, most psychologists
    see the development
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    of behavior differently.
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    They see biological predisposition
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    as guiding development
    in certain directions,
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    but experience as influencing
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    how that development manifests itself.
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    The two sources are
    seen as interconnected,
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    not as opposing alternatives,
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    and it is the way that they interact,
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    which is the focus of interest.
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    One strength of the nature
    versus nurture debate
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    is that the distinction can
    help us identify behaviors
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    that are inherited or learned,
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    or allow us to consider
    the relative contributions
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    of inheritance and learning.
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    It can also be valuable to discover
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    that some behavior is due to nature
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    and not to "inappropriate
    upbringings by parents."
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    One of the weaknesses of the
    nature versus nurture debate
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    is that it is simplistic to
    divide explanation into nature
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    and nurture when the two may
    truly combine in complex ways
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    to influence behavior.
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    Another possible weakness
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    is that discovering a
    particular behavior or capacity,
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    for example, intelligence, is inherited,
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    may lead to some assuming many
    more behaviors are inherited
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    and fail to consider the
    effects of the environment.
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    As mentioned earlier, the
    debate is also deterministic
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    because it offers no scope for free will.
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    It assumes that behavior is
    learned from the environment
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    and that the environment
    will change our behavior.
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Title:
Nature vs Nurture (Psychology Debate Explained) #Alevel
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