Nature and Nurture

Nature and Nurture

ASSIGNMENT 2.1: Nature and Nurture (due by midnight on Sat of this week) Look at the picture of thebonzai tree and at the picture of the oak tree below and answer the following:

What are the similarities between the two trees?
What are the differences?
What forces caused them to be the way they are?
If you were to start treating the bonsai tree the same way the oak tree was treated, what would happen? Would the bonsai tree ever be like the oak tree? Why or why not?
If you were to start treating the oak tree the same way the bonsai tree was treated what would happen? Would the oak tree ever be like the bonsai tree? Why or why not?
Which had greater influence on the trees, nature or nurture? Why do you think that?
Many people who think that nature was the most influential say that development is biologically determined, unless change happens in a hostile environment. Do you think the bonsai tree was raised in a hostile environment?
Those who favor nurture say that our development is influenced by our biological, and social environments. Was the bonsai tree influenced by a biological (nutrition, health care, physical accidents) and social (family, peers, community, and culture) environment?
Has the bonsai been influenced by a biological or social environment? How so?
Look at your own life and discuss what influences have caused you to develop as you have.

What has influenced your development: nature or nurture?
Write a 2 – 3 page paper using APA style and format answering the all of the above questions.