Assignment: Nature Versus Nurture Debate

Assignment: Nature Versus Nurture Debate

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The nature versus nurture debate has been going on for a very long time. Some researchers argue that we are genetically preprogrammed to behave in certain ways, whereas others say that it is the environment that influences our actions. Based on the readings for this unit, what are your thoughts about this issue? Provide real world examples that you think demonstrate genetic and environmental influences on human behaviors.

Write it in 75-100 words

Castel, A. D., Benjamin, A. S., Craik, F. I. M., & Watkins, M. J. (2002). The effects of aging on selectivity and control in short-term recall. Memory & Cognition, 30, 1078–1085. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/ BF03194325.

Castel, A. D., Lee, S. S., Humphreys, K. L., & Moore, A. N. (2011). Memory capacity, selective control, and value-directed remembering in children with and without attention- deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Neuropsychology, 25, 15–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ a0020298.

Castel, A. D., Murayama, K., Friedman, M. C., McGillivray, S., & Link, I. (2013). Selecting valuable information to remember: Age-related differences and similarities in self- regulated learning. Psychology and Aging, 28, 232–242. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0030678.

Dudukovic, N. M., & Knowlton, B. J. (2006). Remember-know judgments and retrieval of contextual details. Acta Psychologica, 122, 160–173. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2005.11.002.

Dunn, J. C. (2004). Remember-Know: A matter of confidence. Psychological Review, 111, 524–542. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0033- 295X.111.2.524.

Eldridge, L. L., Knowlton, B. J., Furmanski, C. S., Bookheimer, S. Y., & Engel, S. A. (2000). Remembering episodes: A selective role for the

hippocampus during retrieval. Nature Neuroscience, 3, 1149–1152. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/80671.

Fawcett, J. M., Lawrence, M. A., & Taylor, T. L. (2016). The representational consequences of intentional forgetting: Impairments to both the probability and fidelity of long-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(1), 56–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ xge0000128.

Gardiner, J. M., Gawlik, B., & Richardson-Klavehn, A. (1994). Maintenance rehearsal affects knowing, not remembering; elaborative rehearsal affects remembering, not knowing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1, 107–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BF03200764.