Five years from now

In Psychology, there are so many different concepts. Students learning about Psychology can relate to these concepts in different ways. In this week's blog, I was asked to write about a concept that I thought I would be able to remember five years from now. I thought carefully about what concept I was going to choose, and after a debate between a few, I decided to go with the Nature vs. Nurture debate. The Nature vs. Nurture debate is the debate on whether our behaviors emerge from our genes (nature) or to our rearing environments (nurture). I sort of relate to this debate in the fact that my cousin was adopted. She has always had behavioral problems and tended not to get along with her parents or siblings. Her siblings were not adopted. When I first read about this debate in the book, I sided more with the nurture side, because to me that made more sense. However, after thinking about it a little more I slowly started changing my mind. I thought about my cousin who has had behavioral problems all of her life, and how her siblings seem perfectly fine. Other examples in the book such as the identical quadruplets started to influence my decision on switching sides. The reason I think I am going to remember this concept for the next five years is because now every time I see my cousin I am going to wonder if her behavior was constructed by her genes.