The Nature-Nurture Debate Has A Long History

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Nature (genotype)

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innate characteristics determined by physiological and genetic factors

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Nurture

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the influence of the environment and learning experiences

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philosophers have debated for centuries about

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how far human behavior is the product of innate characteristics and how far its the product of the environment

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nowadays, almost all psychologists accept that

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nature and nurture must interact because personality and behavior seem to be influenced by both

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nature and nurture interacting is called

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the interactionist approach

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rats raised in bare, dark cages have been compared to

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rats that grew up in stimulating environments

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its found that the rats raised in the stimulating environments do

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less well in problem solving tasks and learn much more slowly then the other rats

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the rats study conclusion suggests that

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environment can affect innate genetic potential

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the debate now focuses on

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the relative contribution of inherited traits and the role of the environment in accounting for behavior