ENG 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tabula Rasa, Epigenetics

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 200
• Professor: Colleen Derkatch

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Fill in the following chart with your notes from any of your research (videos, articles, and so on). Try to be specific with names, theories, and sources, and then add your own thoughts on your position on this debate in the space provided. You should include a minimum of 300 words of point-form notes and thoughts. According to saul mcleod, nature is what we think of as pre-wiring and is influenced by genetic inheritance and other biological factors. Also, according to the same source biological approach is the most extreme view of nature as what defines human behavior. The biological approach is basically the explanation through physical aspects such as genetics, hormones, etc. With the development of psychological and social studies, it is highly accepted that the different interactions and environments play a big role on a person"s behavior. Epigenetics is a term to explain the concept that our lifestyle, interactions and, experiences affect our biology.