In Psychology, what is the nature-nurture debate?
Human behaviors, ideas, and feelings are INNATE and they are LEARNED. These concepts are at the center of the controversy that is referred to as the nature versus nurture controversy. “The nature vs nurture debate is one of the most enduring in the field of psychology. In the 17th century the French philosopher René Descartes set out views which held that people possess certain in-born ideas that enduringly underpin people’s approach to the world. The British philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, on the other hand, took a more empirical approach emphasising the role of experience as fully contributing to behavioral development. Since the days of Descates, Hobbes, and Locke, the empirical “nuture” approach has possibly tended to have the best of the argument but the debate is far from being settled.” Check this out… http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psycholog… Cheers!
