Language and Communication

Nature vs Nurture

The nature versus nurture debate is about the relative influence of an 
individual's innate attributes as opposed to the experiences from the environment 
one is brought up in, in determining individual differences in physical and 
behavioral traits. The philosophy that humans acquire all or most of their 
behavioral traits from "nurture" is known as tabula rasa ("blank slate").

In recent years, both types of factors have come to be recognized as playing 

interacting roles in development. So several modern psychologists consider the 

question naive and representing an outdated state of knowledge. 

Comparison chart

	Nature	Nurture
What is it?	In the "nature vs nurture" debate, nature refers to an individual's innate qualities (nativism).	In the "nature vs nurture"  debate, nurture refers to  personal experiences  (i.e. empiricism or  behaviorism).
Example	Nature is your genes. The physical and personality traits determined by your genes stay the same irrespective of where you were born and raised.	Nurture refers to your  childhood, or how you  were brought up. 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.
Factors	Biological and family factors	Social and environmental  factors

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