Saturday, 13 April 2013

Nature vs Nurture in personality development


Nature helps that a person is naturally born with that talent and so doesn’t need any environment to develop any skill like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sabri brothers etc.These singers come under the list of natural singers but if you look at nurture according its definition it says that it provides certain environment to a person that helps to reshape its skill like Pakistan cricket team hired a bowling coach Waseem Akram to improve the bowling quality of the bowlers which includes the pace etc.

There are different theories which help in describing it more efficiently. The first one is the social cognitive theory it explains that people can learn through modeling and observation of the environment like showing how to make a chicken biryani in a random channel helps to make audience to perfect the skills or at least be able to make chicken biryani. It is also not too simple because it requires factors like attention, motivation retention which is the ability to store the information being provided, later on to produce the same result as expected or shown by that chef making biryani on the channel. The other one is the trait theories which actually describe the characteristics of a personality. like the Cardinal traits it is related to the qualities that a person that dominates his/her life for the whole life and their nicknames are also formed with those similar characteristics like I would give you my home country example Pakistan over here one of my friend has been nick named “SHANA” because of its quality of cleverness in tackling different scenarios like telling a lie in convincing a teacher to mark its absent into a leave or present. Another one is also similar and shows the basic characteristics of the person that sticks to him for the rest of his life . For example my friend Ali is shy in matters of talking to girl's .The third trait is related to the emotions which are related to attitude or even shown at certain occasions like getting impatient while standing in queue etc.

In psychoanalytical theory it is said that childhood experiences have a lot of effect in changing a person behavior for example a person bitten by a dog in childhood would have an impact on him that he would be afraid in going near to a dog.

Another theory is related to Kohlberg's theory of moral development which relates to say right or wrong depending upon individual needs and also looking it as an overall aspect of the society. Taking the same example quoted by Mr. Kohlberg of Mr. Heinz whose wife was ill and so he broke into the druggist house and stole the drug because the drug made by him was too expensive .He put this example in front of the children in order to know their decisions. The conclusion of this theory is that even though society may think of Mr. Heinz as a criminal but it was not in his nature rather then nurturing made him to do.

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