Nature vs. Nuture (Intelligence) whats your opinion?

Question

ive always been been fascinated by questions that really couldnt be answered with a straightforawrd answer. This is why i find the Nature vs nuture debate over IQ interesting. whats are your opinions on the subject?

Answer 1

Nature vs. Nurture re: Intelligence. A child is born with a certain amount of intelligence (Nature). He is then nurtured by many things, education, stimulation from outside activities to develop his questioning mind, standard of living, his parents willingness to interact with the child. So, it is my belief that you could take an average intelligence child and put him in a well-to-do family with all the advantages I listed above and he would have a higher IQ. While the child put in a lower-income situation with not as much or no stimulus to do better would be only normal or less in IQ. It is a very interesting question, one that has been debated a lot & many good points have come about.

Answer 2

Intelligence concerning this is interesting! I find Nature vs. Nurture even more interesting in the behavior end of the spectrum. Take a baby, for instance, born to two persons of average IQ, and place them with a couple having a lower IQ. The family with the lower IQ, historically do not encourage reading, writing, schoolastics or homework. They do not provide the stimulation needed during the first years of life that is essencial in brain function. That child gets tested as a teen and has a lower IQ then both the biological parents. BUT...as an adult, makes choices of their own free will that includes education and growth, then that childs IQ will increase. That child, though, somewhere along the line, had to be shown that education IS important and learning is a valuable tool. That's why our teachers are so important!! (KUDOS TO OUR TEACHERS OUT THERE!!!) So no matter what our IQ, we are taught about what is and what is not important. And we CHOOSE to carry it on or take our own path. That is where free will comes into play and decisions/problem solving skills. So, ultimately in the end, it comes down to choices.........

Answer 3

I wrote a paper on the nature-nurture debate and how it effects the development of children. One thing, nurture is not intelligence. It is the environment and social situation the person is raised in. After my year of research and paper-writing on the subject, I believe that the combination of the two is important in development. Neither one is more important than the other, nor can one stand alone. It's an interesting topic that still continues to be debated. Good question!

Answer 4

I believe we are born with a capacity to grow in wisdom and intelligence. That is nature. What we do with that is nurture. If we stay active all our life and desire to learn from what we observe then studies have shown that IQ increases in time as a result. If we neglect ourselves as we grow then we will not develop that capacity we are born with.