Nature v Nurture Theory
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PsychologicalNut
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Nature v Nurture Theory
My science project topic is on the Nature vs Nurture theory. My aim is to find out if a human's personality is shaped mostly by genes or by upbringing and experiences. Most websites are vague on this. Can someone tell me how I can come to my conclusion, and maybe give some insight? It's a pretty difficult topic.
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alyssaSTEMg
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Re: Nature v Nurture Theory
Hello!
You're right, this is quite a difficult topic. For your project, I'm guessing you still have to do your experiment, and the scientific method and more detailed steps for this can be found here:
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... ience-fair
I found a few sources so you can read up on the topic in a little more detail. This one is a very simple article:
https://www.thoughtco.com/nature-vs-nurture-1420577
And this one is an essay from a psychology website, but is a little more difficult to read:
https://www.simplypsychology.org/naturevsnurture.html
I hope this provides a little more information for your project!
You're right, this is quite a difficult topic. For your project, I'm guessing you still have to do your experiment, and the scientific method and more detailed steps for this can be found here:
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... ience-fair
I found a few sources so you can read up on the topic in a little more detail. This one is a very simple article:
https://www.thoughtco.com/nature-vs-nurture-1420577
And this one is an essay from a psychology website, but is a little more difficult to read:
https://www.simplypsychology.org/naturevsnurture.html
I hope this provides a little more information for your project!
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cnoonan180
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Re: Nature v Nurture Theory
Hello and welcome to the forum!
This is a very difficult project topic, but did require some creative thinking on your part to come up with. Congrats! You may want to take a look at this study performed by a university professor that can help you with your background research for a psychology project:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases ... 062614.php
As you can see, this was a very large study and required a lot of human participants. For this reason you may want to try a project with a similar topic that can be performed on a smaller scale, such as a survey experiment. Or, try a quick search for psychology experiments on the ScienceBuddies website. Here are some you may be interested in:
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... n-function
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... xpressions
You should also look into different psychological phenomena or occurrences that come from human behavior and response to certain scenarios. A quick Google search should give you tons of great ideas.
Hope this helps!
This is a very difficult project topic, but did require some creative thinking on your part to come up with. Congrats! You may want to take a look at this study performed by a university professor that can help you with your background research for a psychology project:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases ... 062614.php
As you can see, this was a very large study and required a lot of human participants. For this reason you may want to try a project with a similar topic that can be performed on a smaller scale, such as a survey experiment. Or, try a quick search for psychology experiments on the ScienceBuddies website. Here are some you may be interested in:
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... n-function
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... xpressions
You should also look into different psychological phenomena or occurrences that come from human behavior and response to certain scenarios. A quick Google search should give you tons of great ideas.
Hope this helps!