nurture

Examples of nurture in the following topics:

• Nature vs. Nurture: A False Debate

  • Recently, the nature versus nurture debate has entered the realm of law and criminal defense.
  • Historically, the "nurture" in the nature versus nurture debate has referred to the care parents give to children.
  • The "nature" in the nature versus nurture debate generally refers to innate qualities.
  • A molecular biologist and psychoanalyst explain the nature versus nurture debate.
  • Discuss both sides of the nature versus nurture debate, understanding the implications of each

• Are We Prisoners of Socialization?

  • Who we are as people is determined by both our genes (nature) and our socialization (nurture).
  • Some experts assert that who we are is a result of nurture—the relationships and caring that surround us.
  • Though genetics and hormones play an important role in human behavior, sociology’s larger concern is the effect that society has on human behavior, the “nurture” side of the nature versus nurture debate.
  • "Nature versus nurture" describes the debate over the influence of biological versus social influences in socialization.
  • Discuss socialization in terms of the nature (biology) versus nurture (social) debate

• Nature vs. Nurture

  • Developmental psychology seeks to understand the influence of genetics (nature) and environment (nurture) on human development.
  • This is often referred to as the nature vs. nurture debate, or nativism vs. empiricism.
  • An empiricist ("nurture") perspective would argue that these processes are acquired through interaction with the environment.
  • Nurtured human behavior is seen as the result of environmental interaction, which can provoke changes in brain structure and chemistry.
  • Evaluate the reciprocal impacts between genes and the environment and the nature vs. nurture debate

• Culture

  • One way of understanding culture is to think of the nature versus nurture debate.
  • To illustrate the nature versus nurture debate, think of any human being.
  • But anything that the person does falls in the nurture side of the debate.
  • While the nature versus nurture debate is useful to understand what culture is, the debate in academia has been somewhat settled by the acknowledgement that nature and nurture influence each other.
  • Nature and nurture contribute to one another.

• Developmental Psychology

  • There are several theories of development that focus on the following issues: whether development is continuous or discontinuous, whether development follows one course or many, and the relative influence of nature versus nurture on development.
  • Are we who we are because of nature (biology and genetics), or are we who we are because of nurture (our environment and culture)?
  • This longstanding question is known in psychology as the nature-versus-nurture debate, and is a central question in developmental psychology.

• Connectivism Defined

• Gene-Environment Correlations: Nature or Nurture?

  • In adoption studies, identical twins raised by different families can give insight into the nature-versus-nurture debate.

• Evaluating the Biological Perspective on Personality

  • This perspective focuses almost exclusively on the nature side of the nature-nurture debate - in other words, whether genetics (nature) or environment (nurture) are more influential in development.

• Behavior Modification

  • Development of a positive, nurturing environment (by removing negative stimuli from the learning environment).

• Interest Groups

  • Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, and anti-nuclear issues.
  • Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, and anti-nuclear issues.
  • Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" and focuses its campaigning on world wide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, and anti-nuclear issues.