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More studies stirring up some steam. Intelligence Studies

Here are a few studies from renown psychologists. It is interesting how these psychologists are known in their fields as highly intelligent researchers but have such controversial findings. Each of the...

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Nature v. Nurture

One of the theories we have learned about in psychology this semester is the idea of nativism (nature) v. empiricism (nurture).  I have always found this idea to be very interesting. I took a...

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Nature vs. Nurture

Aristotle believed that human beings gain everything they know through personal experiences. He developed this idea of empiricism, which most people will refer to as the nurture side of the Nature vs....

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Learning How Not To Shop

Behaviorism, developed in the 1920’s was a method of scientific psychoanalysis based on the principle that mental events are triggered by stimuli in the environment surrounding a subject thus evoking...

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Nature vs. Nurture

The argument of nature vs. nurture can be dated as far back as 300 BC during Socrates and Plato’s time. These Greeks introduced the term nativism (nature) as the idea that our thoughts, ideas, and...

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Pathway to College

The idea of nature versus nurture was founded by the Greeks in 300 B.C. Socrates and Plato introduced the theory of nativism (nature). This is the idea that our thoughts, ideas, and characteristics are...

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Nature vs Nurture

     From the Greek, psychologists, Socrates and Plato started to build a theory that the element decides why people think, feel and behave in their own ways is not what environment that the people...

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