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A 10 page paper which examines
various theorists and briefly discusses whether their theories involve nature, nurture, or
both. The theorists discussed are Thomas Kuhn, Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Arnold
Gesell, Charles Darwin, Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, Petrovich Pavlov, John B.
Watson, B.F. Skinner, Albert Bandura, Sigmund Freud, Erik H. Erikson, Mary D.
Ainsworth, and John Bowlby. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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by a community of scientists who share a paradigm. Revolutionary science is not" (Horus Publications, 2003). He argued that "Individual consciousness is derived from conflict or contradictory experience. The consciousness
of each of us individuates as our experience comes into conflict with or is contradicted by other experience" (Horus Publications, 2003). Through this simple illustration we can see that Kuhn
seems to be arguing both sides, that nature and nurture play apart in the development of an individual as well as ideas. In regards to his ideas he felt that
this perspective was important and very valid in the scientific field for "He intended that the social phenomenology be taken as parallel to individual phenomenology," a fact that could explain
many approaches and be used to further endeavors of the field of science. Locke John Locke, as well as Thomas Hobbes, both of which were British philosophers, "took
a more empirical approach emphasizing the role of experience as fully contributing to behavioral development" (The Nature Versus Nurture Debate, 2003). This clearly indicates that Locke was a man who
felt that nurture was predominant in the development of an individual for experience is a form of nurture. "Lockes view that children were born as a blank slate placed an
extreme emphasis on the environmental determinant of development. Locke described parents as rational tutors who could mold the child in any way they wished through careful instruction, effective example, and
rewards for good behavior (Berk, 1997, p.10)" (The Nature Versus Nurture Debate, 2003). This would, in the mind of Locke, provide a valuable foundation from which the field of psychology
could better understand people and their behavior. Jean Jacques Rousseau "Rousseau believed that nature had mapped-out the course of development for a child and that all children had
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