11 Oct When it comes to human development, both nature and nurture have the strongest impact. Though nature has a higher effect than nurture, it is evident that the two determines the quality of

PSY101 TERM 2 UNIT 5 DB 1

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When it comes to human development, both nature and nurture have the strongest impact. Though nature has a higher effect than nurture, it is evident that the two determines the quality of behavior and overall personality the child is likely to develop. According to Fulker & Eysenck, 2019) nature is comprised of the genes and all hereditary factors that make up the unique physical appearance, physiology and personality. On the other hand, nurture is comprised of the environmental factors that have a direct impact on a person’s growth for instance culture, social relationships, childhood experience, the quality of environment that one lives in, and family among many others.

Starting with nature, when a child is conceived, he/she has genes obtained from the parents and this means that automatically the child acquires some traits of the mother and that of the father. It is for this reason that in the case the child is not exposed to outside world after birth or even fails to know his/her parents, the child would automatically have some similarities with biological parents for instance in physical look, way of thinking, way of handling and reacting to issues, and other unique things the child may inherit from parents though genes. However, despite nature being natural, there is also the environment in which the child grows in. it is in this environment that the child gets exposed to a lot of other factors with potential of affecting personality.

For instance, a child’s parents might be humble, peaceful and of good values but the child is brought up in a family where violence is the order to the day. The environment in this case being nurture gets to expose the child whose brain is in early stages of development to violent as being way of solving issues. Such exposure tends to have a permanent impact on the child as the child is likely to learn and make use of that behavior in the future. This is to mean that as conditional learning teaches, what the child learns tends to reflect in overall behavior.

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Fulker, D. W., & Eysenck, H. J. (2019). Nature and nurture: Heredity. In  The Structure & Measurement of Intelligence (pp. 102-132). Routledge.

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What are three (3) facts you learned about the brain that you didn't know before?

While in this PSY101 course, there are some facts about brain I have learned that I did not know before. The first fact is on the weight of the brain where I have learned that brain weighs roughly 3 lbs. (1.4 kilograms) and that it makes up about 2% of human body weight. For instance, if a person weights 50 kilograms; 2% of the overall weight comes from the brain mass something that proves how weighty brain is. The second fact is that I learned is that the brain has over 86 billion nerves cells also known as neurons that make up the gray matter. The third fact I learned is that contrary to what many people believe that the brain can multitask, the brain does not have ability to focus on two different things at the same time. It switches from one thing to the other a situation that creates reasons for error and delays.

Why do you personally think that learning more about the brain is helpful in studying psychology?

Studying more about the brain is critical in studying psychology because the brain controls the nervous system which determines behavior. It is what one thinks, interprets, and reacts that is applied in psychology. This is everything done is psychology surrounds the brain as the command center of the body.

If you could choose any nervous system disorder to study, which disorder would you choose, and why? Look up three (3) facts about your chosen disorder to share with your classmates.

I would choose to study and understand migraine because it is one of the most common neurological disorders affecting at least one in five women. The understanding would hence have a higher impact on the society since many people suffer from it. Three facts about migraines are that; migraines are highly preventable and secondly stress is the main trigger of migraine with over 70% ability to cause the disorder. According to Al-Karagholi, et al., (2021) many people suffering from a migraine first goes through an aura (seeing dark, light or zigzag spots, or losing vision in the center or sides or feeling like pins are being stuck into your arms, legs or sides).

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Al-Karagholi, M. A. M., Ghanizada, H., Nielsen, C. A. W., Hougaard, A., & Ashina, M. (2021). Opening of ATP sensitive potassium channels causes migraine attacks with aura.  Brain,  144(8), 2322-2332.

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