Essays on Nature Versus Nurture

From the ancient to modern period, theories of learning have varied along with the support and criticism of each new theory. Philosophers like Plato and Aristotle have depended on nature or nurture to explained human behavior (Kan et al., 2013, Im et al., 2008). Plato believed knowledge was inborn and that every object in the...

Feral humans are one of the best examples of how environment affects a human’s behavior despite of genes. A feral human is a child that grows up in the wild isolated from human contact. These people live from a very young age without experiencing human behavior, care, and lack the ability of speech of human...

What could be assumed to be the dominate deciding factor in what a person becomes? Is it that person’s ancestors, how they lived and what they looked like that determines the makings of a person. Or would it be outside influences that push and guide a baby into child and child into adult. Which of...