The thesis of this essay will ultimately aim towards the objective of showing to what extent human behaviors, ideas, feelings, intellectual capabilities, which are innate, and to what extent the above factors are learned. A secondary objective of this essay will be to answer a question taken from Introduction to Psychology. (B Train. et.al) which asks “Does it matter if a child attends a private school if both parents and sets of grandparents all have low IQs? Is low IQ determined in the womb? These issues are heatedly debated and are surrounded by much controversy in the Nature versus nurture field of personality psychology. This essay will also attempt to answer the above as objectively as possible although being it difficult as human beings are subjective organisms as we all have preferences and emotions that affect the ultimate outcome and decision making process.
Before one can distinguish whether personality traits are inherited or whether personality traits are influenced by the environment, one will first have to distinguish and understand the difference between