{"id":8525,"date":"2019-05-22T16:08:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/nature-nurture_debate\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:08:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:39","slug":"nature-nurture_debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/nature-nurture_debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature-nurture debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An almost outmoded controversy over the relative importance of heredity or genes (nature) and environment or experience (nurture) as independent causal agents in the development of the individual. &nbsp;Thus it amounts to a&nbsp;short-hand summary of distinctions between genetically based and experientially derived functions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Contrasting the terms &#8216;nature&#8217; and nurture&#8217; was first done by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/topic\/396736\/Richard-Mulcaster\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/topic\/396736\/Richard-Mulcaster&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard Mulcaster <\/a>(1530-1611), a schoolteacher who eventually became high master at St Paul&#8217;s School, London, at least in the English language. &nbsp;Adopted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coedu.usf.edu\/agents\/dlewis\/publications\/naturevsnurture.htm\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.coedu.usf.edu\/agents\/dlewis\/publications\/naturevsnurture.htm&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Francis Galton<\/a> (1822-1911), he popularised it in the English-speaking world during the 19th and early 20th century. &nbsp;. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"biological_knowledge\">Biological knowledge<\/a>, <a href=\"experience\">Experience<\/a>, <a href=\"hereditary\">Hereditary<\/a>, <a href=\"heritability\">Heritability<\/a>, Innate versus acquired debate, <a href=\"maturation_versus_learning_debate\">Maturation versus learning debate<\/a>, <a href=\"non-shared_environmental_influences\">Non-shared environmental influences<\/a>, <a href=\"ontogenetic_skills\">Ontogenetic skills<\/a>, <a href=\"shared_environmental_influences\">Shared environmental influences<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An almost outmoded controversy over the relative importance of heredity or genes (nature) and environment or experience (nurture) as independent causal agents in the development of the individual. &nbsp;Thus it amounts to a&nbsp;short-hand summary of distinctions between genetically based and experientially derived functions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Contrasting the terms &#8216;nature&#8217; and nurture&#8217; was first done by Richard Mulcaster (1530-1611), &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/nature-nurture_debate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nature-nurture debate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}