Reflection Paper Nature Nurture

Reading the article “Nature over Nurture Temperament, Personality, and Life Span Development” helped me understood more about the topic. Entire life people wonder who they are and what has an effect on their development. It’s the long dispute whether a greater impact on a person's character are genes or environment. Both views have its supporters, and I personally am of the opinion that both nature and nurture have big influence since the beginning of our life. Genes give us some possibilities, predisposition that can be used or not. Culture is the whole environment in which we come to the world and educate and has the greatest influence on our personality.

From the first days of our life, no one was more important to us as our parents. They taught us how to walk, how to speak, how to behave and treat other people. For us they were our models, authorities. After them we inherit certain personality traits. One of the traits that I inherited is that women in my family are incredibly strong mentally, can endure a lot and I'm proud that I’m one of them. It is difficult to imagine situations that might break me.

Most of the physical characteristics I inherited from my father. Certainly high, because I'm 6 feet tall, and all men from my father side like my dad, his brother their father were very tall. Since I was a baby I always was above the standards chart. Being high was depressed for me. In middle school I was bullied by my pears because I was too tall and to skinny. Everything changed when I start playing volleyball because I was equally tall as my team members. Volleyball is my favorite sport and being passionate about sport is another trait that I got from my father.

According to the article “environmental influences play crucial roles in the functioning of the personality system”. Every person, regardless of age, learns by experience. Who we become as adults is not affected by our parents, but the environment in which we live growing...