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"Is behavior mainly inherited or it is learned?" Discuss based on your knowledge concerning modern Psychological theories.
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"Is behavior mainly inherited or it is learned?" Discuss based on your knowledge concerning modern Psychological theories. The answer to this question is based on the debate of nature and nurture. Nature represents the idea that behavior is inherited while the psychologists who support nature are known as nativists. Hence, nurture is that behavior is learned and those who believe in nurture are known as the empiricists. The nativists position is that a person is born with an inherited "blue print", meaning an inherited disposition such as DNA. And afterwards his behavior will be developed through the process of maturation. So, the environment doesn't affect behavior only when there are methods employed in order to change an individual's nature (e.g.: gene therapy or brain surgery). The empiricists position states that a baby's mind at birth is like a blank page, known as tabula rasa and there are recorded all future experiences from...
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