One concept I will take from this course and definitely still remember five years down the road is an important concept relating not only to psychology, but why we are the way we are as people. This concept is a debate that was touched on in pretty much every topic covered this semester, the debate of nature verses nurture. What makes an individual the way they are? Is a criminal predisposed to being a criminal, or did the way their parents raise them the reason for their behavior? One of the biggest things I will take from this class doesn't involve specific studies or numbers but the general idea that both nature and nurture will usually affect who we are as people. After reading and learning about different topics involving the N vs. N debate, such as parenting for example, signs seem to point to not just nature or nurture being the sole culprit. As more studies are conducted, it seems to be that nature does play a bigger role than once thought but a person's environment can still affect certain outcomes. I think this is an important concept to take from the semester because it is crucial for understanding humans and it needs to be understood in order to make and evaluate new discoveries about what makes us "tick" as people.
N vs. N
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Nature vs Nurture is a huge part of everyone's lives whether they are aware of it or not similar to how it affects almost every aspect of psychology like you mentioned. You make a good point!
The nature vs. nurture studies are very interesting. Even though they wield interesting results I feel as if they are some what useless. It seems like both nature and nurture have an effect on everyone. Everyone is the way they are from a mixture of the two.
You are absolutely right in mentioning that we have used Nature vs Nurture in almost every topic of psychology. It is one of the most interesting yet most complicated part of human psychology. The more studies psychologists carry out, that heritability affects a person's vulnerability to being schizophrenic however the correlation is still not a perfect 1 because nurture (or environmental factors) like medications, substance abuse, or medical illnesses can trigger this disorder as well. All these studies, again suggest that maybe there is no such thing as a nature vs. nurture debate because events don't happen in isolation and a combination of the two shape people's behaviors and lives.