Nature versus Nurture

In class we discussed the different between nature and nurture. We were given a list of people (For example: NBA player, abusive spouse/parent, alcoholic, A/F student, and an accountant) and it was up to us to determine which one they fit into. And for a majority of the people selected, it was difficult to tell which category was correct. For the alcoholic, which was my groups topic, we said that it was nurture because it is something you do, an activity with influences around you. It is your choice to drink. But then we had a rebuttal that it was nature, because if you have an addictive personality, that is how the way you are/born with. But my opinion overall is that both in fact, meaning nature and nurture, play into everyone’s lives and both are what create who you are as in individual. It also relates to socialization, which is the process and factors that create the social animal in existence at this moment. Humans were made to be social and to learn (our cerebral cortex gives us that power), so therefore everything we do, such as even eye-contact or talking to one another influences every characteristic of our own lives.