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Nature Vs. Nurture (1957-06-19)
About this film
Dr. Boring recaps the last episode when he talked about sex, and focuses on the problems of nature and biological differences reflected in psychology. Biological inheritance and social inheritance are discussed. Dr. Boring describes the laws of cell biology, chromosomes, and shows Mendel statistics of inheritance. He concludes that nurture contributes to functions, nature to structure. Imprinting, the term invented by Conrad Lawrence for zoology, is mentioned. Imprinting is learning, partly by genes, partly by imitation. Dr. Borings analyzes studies of fraternal twins and identical twins, and draws the following conclusion: nurture reduces thing more, nature never works alone, nurture operates on top of nature. Summary and select metadata for this record was submitted by The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
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WGBH Educational Foundation
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Nature vs. Nurture, Heredity, Environment, Psychology, Genetics, Chromosomes, Genes, Biological Inheritance, Social Inheritance, Sex Differences, Intelligence, Culture, Human Behavior, Family, Biology, Edwin G. Boring, Learning, Developmental Psychology, Personality Traits, Behavioral Genetics, Scientific Education, Harvard University, History of Science, Cell Nucleus, Inherited Characteristics
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