" Watson ten decided that learning-nurture was more credible to human behavior than biology-nature (Infancy and the child 1997, p.105). Today, society is cautious to credit either Darwin or Watson, but in fact many even credit both since human life depends on the human body. One example would be that children share some biological traits of their parents including some physical as well as the potential to excel in areas such as music or art, but whether one develops this potential depends on their social position (Sociology and everyday life, 1997, p.79). For individuals it seems to be that nature an nurture stand as inseparable.
How the elements of personality came about have a lot to do with one man by the name of Sigmund Freud. Freud thought biology played an important role in the development of personality. Freud claimed that people have a basic need for bonding and people have an aggressive drive or a death instinct. Freud claimed that these two opposing forces created what he calls human drama. Freud claimed that the personality can be divided into three categories the id which is the basic drive, the ego which balances innate pleasure seeking drives with the demands that society places on individuals, and finally the super ego which is the presence of culture. Freud" work provided a foundation of how an individuals personality effects one's life and also society's efforts to control human drive. (Human Development, 1998, p.176).
Another perspective on personality is that of Lawrence Kohlberg and his ideas on moral development. He argues that moral development occurs in stages. He believes when one experiences the world in terms of pain and pleasure one is in the preconventional level of moral development, basically, the "what feels good to me" stage. When one reaches the conventional level of this step ladder for moral development is the ".
what is right vs. what is wrong" stage in which one tries to distinguish between the two through observation.