Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
INTRODUCTIONThe nature versus nurture debate is about the phenomenon that define whether theindividual's behaviour, culture are the result of nature or nurture. In this essay “nature” highlightthe hormone or genetic based behaviour of the individual whereas “nurture” can be occur due toenvironmental experience (Coll, Bearer and Lerner, 2014). This was one of the greatestpsychological issues of the 20th century and its debate is still going on. This essay will underlinethe issue in relation to aggression whether it is inherited and learned. The contemporary debateconcentrates on the impact of genes on individual's personality in contrast to effect onenvironmental nurturing. MAIN BODY The essay focuses on the examination of the extent through which the variance ofreactive and proactive aggression can be present in individual's behaviour. The nature versusnurture debate is all about that human being's state of actions is ascertained by the environmentwhether it is parental dependent or it is depended on the genetic nature. The basic differencebetween two factors is that nature of each and every individual is highly impacted by variousbiological factors as well as genetic inheritance. On the other hand “Nurture” is the concept thatinvolve impact due to the presence of external elements that are there like experience, attitudes,leaning process of the human beings. According to the modern time period, the “nature” phase ofthe debate is highly focused upon as it include the discovering of new genes in virtual mannerthat is directly linked with their behaviour (Hermans, 2014). It has been observed that from the 2 decades, number of researchers have been focusedupon the difference between two types of aggressive behaviour of the individual in accordance tothe underlying motivation of functional factors that is proactive and reactive aggression concept.Both these aspects are of distinctive nature, proactive aggression is described as defensive,aggressive and cold blooded that do not require any anger or provocation. Whereas on the otherhand, reactive aggression has been represented as defensive, affective and hot blooded in whichhuman beings provide reaction in response to the situation they are facing. It has been discoveredthat there are certain characteristics that are genetically inherited from their parents that arebiological process. For example colour of eyes, hair and skin that is inherited for the generationprocess. Various researchers have found that in order to analyse the genetic impacts on1
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