AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Nature refers largely to our genetics. It includes the genes we are born with and other hereditary factors that can impact how our personality is formed and influence the way that we develop from childhood through adulthood. Nurture encompasses the environmental factors that impact who we are.

Detailed explanation-2: -It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including the molecular structure and function of genes, gene behaviour in the context of a cell or organism (e.g. dominance and epigenetics), gene distribution, and variation and change in populations.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nature is what people think of as pre-wiring and is influenced by genetic inheritance and other biological factors. Nurture is generally taken as the influence of external factors after conception e.g. the product of exposure, experience and learning on an individual.

Detailed explanation-4: -Eye color and skin pigmentation are examples of “nature” because they are present at birth and determined by inherited genes.

Detailed explanation-5: -To answer the question of whether we are a product of Nature or Nurture, we are both. We are a product of our genetics, and our environment.