The contribution of the nature-nurture debate to the understanding of human behavior.

The contribution of the nature-nurture debate to the understanding of human behavior.
An introduction to the nature-nurture debate
Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental process. There are different principles and approaches in this subject, like behaviorism, structuralism, functionalism, psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, humanistic approach and biology approach. They all have there own controversy on whether nature or nurture is the main source of psychology.
The nature-nurture debate goes by several names that are often used interchangeably in different sub-disciplines of psychology. These are nativism-empiricism(perception);heredity versus environment(individual differences). Maturation versus learning(developmental psychology). It was began by Francis Galeton, when he referred to genes and environment as the two sources of individual differences in his study of giftedness(Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences...