Nutrition,

The Flynn Effect John Watson's conditioning studies The effects of enrichment for children from low socioeconomic families The effects of nutrition on the development of intelligence

It Takes a Village

"environment" is based on the assumption that what influences children's development, apart from their genes, is the way their parents bring them up.

Infant malnutrition (negative) Number of years in school Social group of parental home Father's profession Father's economic status Degree of parental rigidity (negative) Parental ambition Mother's education Average TV viewing (negative) Average book-reading Self-confidence according to attitude scale measurement Age (negative relationship, applies only in adulthood) Degree of authority in parental home (negative) Criminality (negative) Alcoholism (negative) Mental disease (negative) Emotional adaptation

Flynn effect

supporters of the nurture theory believe that our behavioral aspects originate mostly from the environmental factors of our upbringing.

Do you as a parent have any impact on your child’s personality?

Abusers: Evidence from numerous studies supports that children who have been abused are more likely to become abusers themselves. Proving that the environment determines the behavior. Conditioning: One of my favorite examples of nurture is from the movie My Fair Lady. In which Professor Higgins takes Eliza Doolittle, a poor flower girl, and turns her into a lady of society. Her genetics didn’t determine the type of person that she was, but the environment that she had grown up in. But Professor Higgins changed the environment hence changing the person.

The Nurture Theory: Environment

The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth identifies seventh and eighth graders who score greater than 700 on the SAT math section (the top 0.01 percent or 1 in 10,000 students). Since the early 1980s, the ratio of boys to girls in this extremely select group has dramatically declined from 13-to-1 to around 3-to-1 in recent years. This increase in girls’ representation has happened far faster than it would take a genetic change to travel through the population.

What are your thoughts and experiences on nurture versus nature in understanding the relatively small number of women in science and engineering fields?

What are your thoughts and experiences on nurture versus nature in understanding the relatively small number of women in science and engineering fields?

Looking globally, in the majority of countries more boys than girls scored above the 99th percentile in mathematics on the 2003 Program for International Student Assessment. However, in Iceland and Thailand, more girls than boys scored above the 99th percentile; if girls were genetically inferior at math,

1- There is no single universal behavior which can be proved evolutionary. Even fear of death, that seems natural, is overridden in crusades, suicides and suicide bombings.2- Humans are made of 25,000 to 30,000 genes. Chimpanzees share 95% of your genetic characteristics. However, they do not even share 10% of your behaviors.3- People do not differ in behaviors as they do differ in skin pigments. Extroverts, introverts, optimists, pessimists, criminals, liberals, etc. are found in all societies and cultures. Even identical twins, with the exact same genes, and fraternal twins, with half of the same genes, behave differently in most cases.4- No genome scientist has related genes or a set of genes with any kind of behaviors.5- There are a good number of living organisms and fossils which suggest intermediary stages to the physical evolution. However, no such intermediary stages are available for personality evolution.

They suggest that fear of death, fear of injury, fear of snakes, shyness, addiction, criminality and sexual orientation are main examples of inheritable behaviors.

Darwin’s theory of evolution led William Hamilton, George Williams and many others to the idea of personality evolution. They proposed that like physical organs, your personality is the result of natural selection for survival of the fittest. You do as your genes dictate.

Take the debate about language. For years, the field of linguistics has been heavily influenced by Noam Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar. Kids might learn a particular language from experience, the Chomskyans have it, but they are drawing on a set of preprogrammed grammatical rules that we are all born with. It’s the reason why, even at a very young age, we are able to create an impressive array of unique, grammatically correct sentences. It’s also the ultimate naturist hypothesis.

Put another way, our interactions with our environment—our upbringing, early experiences, culture—have a lot more to do with the way we think, learn language, acquire knowledge, choose sexual partners, and make moral judgments than anything that is hardwired into us.

If genes do contribute substantially to the development of personal characteristics such as intelligence and personality, then many wonder if this implies that genes determine who we are.

Someone could be born with genes to give them a normal height, but be malnourished in childhood, resulting in stunted growth and a failure to develop as expected.

Nurture refers to your childhood, or how you were brought up.

The coding of genes in each cell in us humans determine the different traits that we have, more dominantly on the physical attributes like eye color, hair color, ear size, height, and other traits.

Each of these sides have good points that it's really hard to decide whether a person's development is predisposed in his DNA, or a majority of it is influenced by this life experiences and his environment.

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