Life-span development is an important topic in psychology that has an entire course devoted to it (PSY 211). Human development is influenced by our environment and experiences. Research gives us clues on which has the most impact on a particular area, but we still do not have definitive answers. Choose a trait or behavior and state whether you believe it is influenced most strongly by nature or nurture. Back up your position with material from the text and information from a study or other credible source. For example, you might choose something such as a specific talent, sexual orientation/gender identity, or a certain type of prosocial/antisocial behavior. Most of us were taught (by our English teachers) to use MLA. When I was in college, almost all classes used MLA. Somewhere in the late nineties, MLA was surpassed by APA. Why do you think that may be? NO SPECIFIC WORD COUNT What do you already know about the purpose of thesis statements? What have been your past experiences in writing thesis statements? RESPOND TO STUDENT POST HUNTER POST The trait I would like to talk about is ambition. I have a lot of it, I started my own software company not because I knew what I was doing but because I knew I couldn't work normal jobs. I believe this trait is nature. Everyone told me to go to school and get a degree and get a regular job and grow your career. I took a very unorthodox path and selected to do online school so I could build my company. I have had many hard reality checks and I believe my environment pushed me to conform and become an employee. Since I did not go down this path I believe ambition is a natural trait or at least in me. ERIKA POST For my topic, I chose sexuality. Does living in an certain environment determine your sexuality? Living in a household or being raised by homosexual parents make a difference in the way you perceive your sexuality. According to our readings, a great deal of how we end up is based on how we are raised. Although, of course, just because you are raised by homosexual parents doesn't mean you will for certain be homosexual, there is a great deal of how we think and react will be based on how they raised you. Another aspect of being raised by your environment would be morals, beliefs, and religion. If you were raised Catholic, it is most likely that it will be your religion. There are many aspects in which how we are raised plays in part in who we are today, but there are also aspects in which we acquire on our own. Our personalities, sense of humor and our self viewing is something that we inquire as we get older. SPENCER POST 50 WORD COUNT Learning addition and subtraction before multiplication and division would be beneficial to students because it allows them to learn basic problem solving skills and strategies that could be beneficial with more complicated multiplication and division problems. Students can move on to multiplication and division withou ...