Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Nature vs. Nurture

nature and nurture are very diferent from each oter. nature is the genetics which you have born with, like the eye colors, and more physical things. nurture in the other hand is what you grow into, or what you adapt from the enviroment you live in. the first one to use this term, nature and nurture was a man called francis Galton, he was Charles darwin cousin, a realy smart family. world wide there are many topics that are being debated nature vs nurture. Some of this topics are criminal nature, atletic ability, intelligence, homosexual, personality, and much more,but those are the most common ones. They do all thins debate to figure out which as more power in our lives, nature or nurture. The debate is to know if you have been born with a kind  of personality or you develop it while you are growing. those both terms are very different and have being a problem debating on it. Mr. Dougherty belives and says the debators are ralaying more on the enviromental and they have examples from identical twins when oftenly they do not turn out exactly with the same personalities or abilities.in my opinion every single human depends on both. of course somethings depend on nature more, and some depend on nurture, but at the end it has a littlebit of the both. it is interesting to know why you have that personality or your athletic ability, but each person is different,so i think some people may get their ability passed on while others not, so it all depends in nature AND nurture. Both of them together makes a better person.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Charles darwin

Charles Darwin was an English naturalist. He discovered lots of interesting facts of many species. He published a book whcihc established facts about the evolution, it was called the theory of natural selection. He got really stressed becuase his scientific theory was against the religion. He suffered a lot of tradigies during his time of investigation. he was born in 12 February 1809 and died in 19 April 1882.

Charles darwin did a big journey out of England. He got to gather a viariety of different information of the south american fauna, flora and geology. during his long journey he got to see the differnt viarity of species. it  was huge expedition on a boat called the beagle.

Nature selcects who will survive and what does not. Charles found out that the creatures varied depended on the place they lived. if the creature did not have a characterisctic that would help them survive in that habitat, s it would not be able to reprodece it self. His theory said that it all depended on evolution for the benefit for each specie. he named this theory as natural selection.

Charles Darwin while he studied his investiogation about the diferent species had many problems. Charles way of thinking got in huge problems because of the religion. For many years everyone has belived in what the bible says, and changing the way of thinking in those times could create big trouble. Charles may have had offened many people throughout his investigation about revolution. Darwin when he finished his book he had a lot of anguish on publishing his great book. He also found out that someone was coming up with his same theory, and has not been investigating that as he does. eventhough he new he might offend lots of people he knows, he had to publish it. This investigation took him lots of time.

Monday, August 16, 2010

What is Pshcology?

Psychology has to do with the animal and human brain. It also has to do with the mental functions and behaviors of humans and animals. I think studying this is really important because it is your brain, and it is good to understand why people are behaving in a sort of way. In that way you will interact in a more beneficial way to interact with your classmates.