Example Of Essay On Nature Or Nurture

For many years scientists debate what is more important in personality formation: genes or environment where the person was brought. And although some argue that genes define the way person looks and behaves; other state that its influence does not go beyond physical appearance. Still it should be noted that combination of both nature and nurture is vital in personality formation.
While considering the question of nature and nurture it is important to start from the cradle. In the very tender age newborn rely solely on their parents, still time when they start to move, talk and later think critically depends both on the way their parents began to do so (nature) and the way they are taught to do so(nurture). The good example of how genes influence talent development show Paul B. Papierno and Stephen J. Ceci and others on the example of reading:
The very children who are reading well and who have good vocabularies will read more, learn more word meanings, and hence read even better. Children with inadequate vocabularies— who read slowly and without enjoyment—read less, and as a result have slower development of vocabulary knowledge, which inhibits further growth in reading ability (Papierno, 317).
In his article To be or to do: Is a gifted child born or developed? Jim Delisle states that: “in every popular study of adopted children a repeated finding is that “with age [adopted siblings] become less like their environmental siblings and parents, but more like the biological ones, they have never met” ( Delisle, 2)
Despite the fact that nature has integral part in person development, most scientists agree that without nurture nature may be lost and therefore, it is important to understand giftedness and promote its development.

References

Delisle, J. (2003, October 1). To be or to do: Is a gifted child born or developed? Roeper Review, 2-3.
Papierno, P., Ceci, S., Makel, M., & Williams, W. (2005). The Nature and Nurture of Talent: A Bioecological Perspective on the Ontogeny of Exceptional Abilities. Journal for the Education of the Gifted., 28(3/4), 312-332. Retrieved April 23, 2015, from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ746058.pdf