Thus far in psychology we have gone over many concepts and theories but one in particular has stuck out to me, and that is the Nature vs Nurture debate.
This to me is almost two separate concepts, one being that nature is the main cause of human behavior and developmental outcome and the other is that nurture is that cause of our behavior and developmental outcome.
I think that these two ideas are important because both in my eyes attribute to human development and by studying the effects that these two things have on humans could be crucial in determining the future of many human beings.
You can see this concept well at work in schools all across the nation. The debate of ADD, does it really even exist. I for one feel it does exist, but I do think that it is over diagnosed many times. For instance there have been times in schools where a child that is seemingly over energetic in second grade is immediately tabbed as "suffering" ADD. If you look though, most of the time the diagnosed are boys in the second grade, these children most of the time are just being children. The reason that this is related to nature vs nurture is because maybe some of these children have been raised in a fashion that at their homes they are able to do whatever they want, and act how they please. So in essence the nurture aspect of the way these kids are being raised tells them it is ok to act wild in their school setting. The nature aspect though could in fact be that these children biologically speaking have ADD. Some of these children may have the imbalance which makes them more energetic and have less patience then others. This biological issue may indeed have been handed down from parents, but the way they act could be just due to the fact they were raised, or because they are just being kids.
Most people would agree that these two things go hand in hand in developing and shaping the behaviors of humans throughout there lives. But it is still debated which one has a greater influence. I for one think that nature has a bigger pull, because even if someone may be a non violent person the way they were raised by their parents could in fact make them violent. Like in the Bogle family.