Nature vs. Nurture

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The paper discusses how much of a person's characteristics, behaviors, and development are determined by his or her genes and how much is the result of the experiences and influences that occur after conception. It shows how although hereditary factors may provide a blueprint for development it is the environment that provides the actual materials. It also examines behavior modification and classical conditioning using examples from personal experience.

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"The nature influence is the inborn capacities and limitations we all have, and the nurture influence is the way a person is raised, such as the influence of family, school, neighborhood, and culture. Your inherited brain allows you to process and recall vast amounts of information. If you had inherited the brain of an ape, no amount of training would have enabled you to read. All human development can be understood as an interaction between nature and nurture. Your brain, your nervous system, your entire body is constructed according to instructions received from the genes you inherited from your parents."

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