Choreographing the Nature Nurture Dance
“Choreographing the Nature-Nurture Dance” poses a question that challenges all psychologists. ... This controversy is most often recognized as the nature verses nurture conflict. ... Anne Anastasi was one of many psychologists that argued the point of nature vs. nurture. She criticized the old ways of thinking about nature vs. nurture issue and outlined what she believed was a new, more productive approach. She also made several suggestions for specific research agendas that researchers in the nature-nurture area should follow. ... Anastasi used many methodological approaches to correlate with her study of how nature and nurture is determined. ... Anastasi and her studies noticed that the old ways of answering this question of nature vs. nurture was going nowhere and different questioned needed to answer. The major finding conclude that our development and behavior are products of the interaction between nature and nurture.