Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Nature vs Nurture

Nature vs Nuture debates is used to know how the human body develops. Nature has to do with your ancestors and things like  your eye color while nurture has to do with the envirnonment such as your personality, your ideas, etc. The first person to use the term was Sir Francis Galton who was English  born in 1822. He had a very ructiferous life published many books and studied about many different topics; hedied in 1911. Some of the topics that are part of the debate of nature vs nurture are athletic ability, intelligence, criminal behavior, personality, homosexuality, etc. for the overall belief of the debate, I believe that Nurture is more powerful because as time passes by people change, we have now become more intelligent than the people who lived millions of years before because we live in a better environment as it changes, we change also and although I believe that nature is important also, nurture has more to do with the humans and how we become better through time, how do we act and not fi we look like our parents or grandparents, nurture is more powerful in my opinion.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Darwin

Charles Darwin was and English naturalist born in 1809 and died in 1882. Through many years of his life he looked for evidence to proof the theory of evolution. his most improtant works were The Origin Of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 and the Descent of Man 1871. Darwin arrived to his theory of evolution because of his voyage in The Beagle he explored many different places and made a lot observations. The Theroy of Natural Selection is that nature will select who will survive and how doesnt. If teh creature doesnt have enough caractesistic to help it survive then they will die as the caracteristics will also disappear. In Darwin's days, his theory was not accepted because people were very catholic. Darwin did not want to talk about hsi theory so that his idea was not stollen and because people were so catholich in those days that he would believe he had mental problems.

Monday, August 16, 2010

what is psychology and why do we study it?

Psychology has to do with the study of the human and animal brain to explain behavior. With psychology you can learn how the brain works because just looking at it would not help you.We study it to get an explanation on how do we function, why do we do things, think them, act it that particular way, etc.