The nature versus nurture debate deals with children developing their psychological attributes through genetics, in this case nature, or through their education and how they are raised, also known as nurture. ... Along the line drawn during the above introduction I would like to avail myself with the thoughts and theories of such philosophers starting with the ones with a more nativist position until reaching the ones with a deeper focus on the environment in order to deeply analyze how these theories have become the basis for a more in deep psychology analysis of the nature-nurture debate. .....

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Origin of Cognitive Approach There is a certain lengthy debate concerning who pioneered the cognitive methodology, yet a few reliable sources ascribe the term to the 1950s and 1960s, with Ulric Neisser's book Cognitive Psychology, which made unquestionable references of the human personality through extensive working in a debatable and comparable manner to machines. ... Nature-Nurture debate also comes in this scenario cognitive analysts take an actively interactional position, they openly accept that an individual's conduct is affected to much extent by learning and experience (nurt...

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Personality psychology addresses the questions of shared human nature, dimensions of individual differences and unique patterns of individuals. ... I, on the other hand, believe that all sides of the debate are equally valid; personality is both the product of nature, in the form of the gratification of instinctual basic needs, and the product of learning and life experiences. ... Therefore, personality is not a question of nature versus nurture, but is instead a combination of the two. ... I am private by nature, and appear calm in moments of crisis. ...

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