Nature Vs Nurture Nature V. Nurture - 2249 Words

Nature v. Nurture is the long lasting debate about whether people inherit their personality traits from their parents or if they are developed through their environment. Neither position has been proven because it is hard to find solid, irrefutable, scientific evidence to support either one. Nature v. Nurture can deal with many aspects of a person’s personality, such as intelligence and how a person was able to be as smart as they are. Intelligence is something that can be inherited, just as people inherited their physical characteristics. However, some feel that children are raised to be intelligent, and that kids cannot inherit something that is not visible or tangible. Maternal twins are a good study of Nature v. Nurture, because†¦show more content†¦The twins, who were separated, could be very similar in the way that they dress, carry themselves, act, and most importantly, how they value education. Those personal traits would suggest that it was in their nat ure to carry themselves in a certain way. In other words, they inherited certain personality traits form their parents. In contrast, the twins could be completely different. They could dress differently, be on completely unrelated levels of success and intelligence, and behave differently. Those traits would suggest that they were raised, or nurtured, to act a different way. The result of having different parents could force the twins to have different values and consequently, have different standards of education. There are times that being a twin is not always a good thing. At times, twins are put at a disadvantage because of their shared traits. Results from multiple studies on twins, show that not only do they share physical characteristics, but they also share many mental characteristics also. The heritability of language development has been found in 24-month-old twins. Many twins show symptoms of late language emergence (LLE) after 24 months, with scores that were l ower than the average for single born children (Bontempo, Gayan, Rice, Taylor, Zubrick). Twins could be put at a disadvantage when they are young because they are