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Running Head: NATURE AND NURTURE

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Nature and Nurture
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NATURE AND NURTURE

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Debates surrounding the issue of nature versus nurture continue to be significant within
the field of psychology. People try to establish whether nature or nurture influences their
behaviors. Each person in society has an idea of their personality. Individuals are aware of their
openness, conscientiousness and extraversion personalities among others. However, most of
these people would like to understand the influential primary factor in their personality. At times
nature can be the cause of how a person is and at the same time nurture is likely to be the
influential element in the way an individual turns out to be. This paper examines how nature and
nurture interact to produce a personal trait or characteristic.
In a bid to understand how nature and nurture influence individual personality it is
imperative to start by defining the two concepts. Nature refers to the hereditary factors or genes
that influence individuals and their characters (Shaffer and Kipp, 2013). For instance, nature
influences the physical appearance of people. In many occasions, children have physical
characteristics that are similar to their parents. The genetic inheritance or biological factors thus
influence an individual's character.
On the other hand, nurture refers to all the external and environmental factors that
influence the behaviors of individuals (Nevid, 2012). For ins...