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The nature nurture dichotomy is a theme always present in many areas of psychology. But is it right to talk about it as a dichotomy? ,
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The nature nurture dichotomy is a theme always present in many areas of psychology. But is it right to talk about it as a dichotomy? , Certainly not. To say so would be like stating that they never act together, that they are contradictory and exclusive one from each other. Biological and environmental explanations of human behaviour do not need to be contradictive; the biological factors work inside of an environmental context, and this context is formed upon a biological base, that is why nature and nurture can not be a dichotomy. But what does nature and nurture mean in psychology? Nature is everything determined in our genes by heritage; in one person half of these genes come from the mother and the other half from the father, and each individual with the exception of his or her identical twin has a unique genetic profile. This profile is the starting...
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