2.4 Nature V Nurture THOP

1. Nature VS Nurturehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJAB7OS4fXg

2. • Viking
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ7SrdMNfxc
• German
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J5n8kzpbCs

3. Nature v Nurture
• In the "nature vs. nurture" debate
• Nature is your genes or heredity. The physical
and personality traits determined by your
genes stay the same irrespective of where you
were born and raised.
• Nurture is your environment or how you were
raised or socialized. Your behaviours and
characteristics are due to the environment
you grow up in.

4. NATURE
• Nature is your genes or heredity. The physical and
personality traits determined by your genes stay
the same irrespective of where you were born
and raised.
• Nativists assume that the characteristics of the
human species as a whole are a product of
evolution and that individual differences are due
to each persons unique genetic code.
• Nature factors that trigger an individual to
commit crime are biological and family factors.
• Predispositions

5. Social Experiment
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mvZ4EbPbME

6. Are we biologically determined?
Biological determination
is the interpretation of
humans and human life
from a strictly biological
point of view. Who we
are, what we look like
and what we do is
determined by our
genetic make up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mvZ4EbPbME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6hF3-obvnA – Outline the
ideas presented about the nature vs nurture debate.

7. Nurture
• Nurture refers to your childhood, or how you
were brought up.
• Empiricists assume that at birth the human
mind is a tabula rasa (a blank slate) and that
this is gradually “filled” as a result of
experience.
• Nurture factors that trigger an individual to
commit crime are social and environment
factors.

10. Some scary thoughts…
Women should remain in the home and raise
children, not go out and work. That's why they
are the ones that can get pregnant and bear the
children. It's the way it's supposed to be.
"We can abuse animals any way we please -
we're the ones who evolved the most, after all,
because Nature wanted us in charge.”
Reference: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Biological_determinism

11. Adrian Raine a Professor in Psychiatry, Psychology and Criminology, is putting
together a puzzle. What makes people do bad things? Are violent criminals
born, or are they made? Here, he discusses his brain-scan research on the
biological roots of criminal behaviour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc4j9STclRk

12. How We Age: Is It in Our Genes? Or
our environment?
Dr Steve Weston - Sunwarrior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE9uIojFmMo

13. Pink and Blue Project
https://www.brainpickings.org/index.
php/2009/12/11/pink-and-blue-
project/

14. Feral Children
• The word ‘feral’ is often
used to describe those
who are acting animalistic
or socially inept.
• A feral child is a human
child who has lived
isolated from human
contact for a very young
age.
Peter Pan is a literary
example of a ‘feral child’

15. Example of a feral child…
• Oxana Malaya (born November 1983) was found as an 8-
year-old feral child in Ukraine in 1991, having lived most of
her life in the company of dogs. She picked up a number of
dog-like habits and found it difficult to master language.
• Oxana’s alcoholic parents were unable to care for her. They
lived in an impoverished area where there were wild dogs
roaming the streets. She lived in a dog kennel behind her
house where she was cared for by dogs and learned their
behaviours and mannerisms.
• She growled, barked and crouched like a wild dog, sniffed
at her food before she ate it, and was found to have
acquired extremely acute senses of hearing, smell, and
sight.

16. Epigenetics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k50yMwEOWGU

17. Uniqueness
Each of us is unique, the product of both heredity and
environmental factors. Our parents impart some
genetic characteristics; such as hair or skin colour, eye
shape or the ability to roll your tongue.
The environment in which you grow up will also
influence you, outside of your parents through
socialisation factors such as peers, media, location and
school.
The human being is a unique combination of nature
and nurture.

18. Psalm 139
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

19. Activity
Nature v Nurture
Draw up a table; On one side list and detail the
traits you believe you have inherited. On the
other side list and detail the traits you feel you
have developed through the environment you
have grown up in.
Get someone who knows you well to check
your list.

20. Answer 2 of the following questions.
Each answer should be a good
paragraph in length
1. What are the social impacts on a child raised
in isolation?
2. Does a lack of love lead to a life of crime?
3. Alcoholism: A result of nature or nurture?
4. Naturally gifted: Is it just nature at work?