Nature and Nurture? Which one really affects a humans personality?

Question

So in Language Arts we talked about Nature and Nurture.
Nature is the belief that all humans have the peronality they
were born with and nurture as in they ae raised to be a certain way. For example I am nurtured to think that criminals should be
wiped out of existance because they ruin society. It maybe I felt this way from birth ( I have) or maybe because I watch forensic files a lot.

Awnser number 1: Good awnser thats what most of my class said but which one has a more significant affect?

LOL I should ask questios like these more often. In the military section when you ask a question like "Is it such a good idea to
invade Iran or North Korea" you
just get some idiots coming and talking about stealth technology and how they can nuke them while watching baseball.
They never include logic even when Generals of th U.S Armed Forces said that invading North Korea or Iran would be difficult with 10,s of thousands lost on both sides and they are capable of pushing America out of their territory. This is of
the subject but I appreciate you guys actually awnsering my question.

Answer 1

Nature is more dominant but nurture has its effects also. Nature explains your personality, your tendencies to be goofy or serious, extrovert or introvert, or if you are athletic or not. I don't believe you can nurture an extrovert into being an introvert and I don't believe you can nurture a non-athletic person to be a sports star.
Look at adopted kids they will exhibit personality traits unlike the parents that they have always lived with but if you knew who the birth-parents were and their traits you would see similarities that were very obvious.
Nurture affects things like the way you react to certain situations due to cause and effect, certain things you are taught to believe and disbelieve.

Answer 2

Nature and nurture BOTH play a role.. You can take a well bred dog, put it into a horrible situation and it may stay well-balanced or the result may be a neurotic mess of a dog. Just like with people, some handle horrible situations with flying colors and end up more adjusted then some who have had pretty nurturing childhoods. Good genetics (nature) plus proper upbringing should just about always result in a well balanced animal or human being, even then there will be exceptions. Poor nature, but good nurture can still raise an animal that may be a tolerable pet. But, there will be struggles to overcome. I would equate that with a human being that has a mental illness but has been raised well and TRIES. Generally, most of the time they are good citizens. Good nature but with abuse or neglect, can net either an animal that stays well-adjusted regardless or one that ends up a bad pet because of their experience. I used to raise rabbits. I had ONE litter that was just psycho. I never bred the mother rabbit again. BUT, otherwise every rabbit I ever raised was just sweet and even tempered. There was ONE exception, a bunny that someone bought for their particularly spoiled brat of a child. It was returned to me because it was a biter, but, it had just been antagonized every day. Why? The child had wanted a puppy and was mad because her mother got her a rabbit and thought it justified to take it out on the rabbit. In other words, you can make a well-bred animal ill tempered, it's just harder to do!

Answer 3

That is one of the major controversies. Each one has an affects on human personality. Nature from genetic may give us most of the emotional personality such as bad temper or no temper at all. My sister is Bad tempered every since she was born...I think she got that from my dad's gene. I on the other hand got the no temper genes.

Not just nature but nurture also have an affects on human personality. If a person lives in a bad area you'll see that they'll start to use drugs and act violently than those are not.

There was a study of two identical twin to see if nature or nurture were the one! At the end of the observation, they found that it was a combination of both nature and nurture.

Answer 4

I think it is a combination of both. We are born with our capabilities of thinking, feeling, etc., and then we are nurtured with those capabilities by the way we are raised by our primary caregivers (usually our parents), and by others who influence us in our formative years. I don't think you can remember the way you felt at birth, but you were raised to think/feel a certain way.
There are so many factors that go into this and it gets rather complex, but I hope my short answer explains what I think about nature/nurture.

Answer 5

I think what you described is an attitude, not a personality trait. Your attitude about those social issues is completely environmentally influenced. We are not born to hate or think a certain way about social issues, we are taught.

There are some personality traits that are innate, like being shy or being a risk taker. There have been many twin studies and adoption studies to determine these things.

Answer 6

I think it is a combination of nature and nurture.

Answer 7

they both have an effect on ones personality