Final Term Assessment
Psychology
Name: Abdul Mannan Siddiqui
Class: BSAF 2B
Roll No: 2047146
Answer # 01
Part A
Role of Nature vs Nurture in psychology development:
“Nature” is defined as all genes and inherited elements that play a role in a person's distinctive
physical appearance, personality, and physiology and the term "nurture" refers to the various
environmental factors that influence a person's development, such as family, early childhood
experiences, social interactions, culture, education and community.
Nature and Nurture plays an important role in the development of psychology. Genetics has a
bigger overall impact on a person's constitution than their family environment, most behavioral
features cannot be traced back to specific genes or family features. Although some natural
features are not visible when the child is born, as he grows older, he begins to reveal signals that
are inherited in her personality, such as hostility, walking style, and thinking style.
Example # 01:
High blood pressure and obesity
One point of contention in this topic is whether high blood pressure and obesity are health risks
that are passed down from parent to child genetically. Is it possible for a child to develop high
blood pressure or become obese simply because their parent did? Genetics, according to
proponents of nature, has a significant impact on obesity and high blood pressure. Proponents of
nurture cite obesity as a result of poor eating habits and a lack of ability to regulate personal
habits as a cause of high blood pressure.
Example # 02:
Personality:
The nature vs nurture debate frequently includes personality development. People are curious
about how children's personalities develop. Is a child's personality influenced by their parents'
DNA or learnt traits from their surroundings? Because a kid acts like a mother, it is likely that
they are susceptible to the mother's inherited impact. Nurture supporters, on the other hand,
argue that growing up in the presence of one's mother is a learned personality rather than one that
is passed down genetically.
Answer # 03
The three learning approaches that we learn are:
1. Social cognitive learning (Albert Bandura)
Repeated observations of other people's actions help to shape one's personality.
2. Situationism (Walter Mischel)
Consider that personality cannot be examined without taking into account the situation's specific
circumstances.
3. Self-esteem
Self-worth and value are two aspects of personality that encompass our positive and negative
self-evaluations.
Which approach is the best?
Social cognitive learning approach is the best because cognitive learning is a powerful tool for
introducing a lifelong passion for learning and growth. Cognitive learning can boost your
confidence in the person’s capacity to deal with professional issues. This is because it
encourages problem-solving skills and makes learning new topics in a short amount of time
easier. In addition to that Long-term learning is facilitated by cognitive learning, which allow
you to connect existing knowledge with new information. It assists you in combining old and
new information and efficiently applying both. By making new knowledge exciting and
gratifying, cognitive methods promote a love of learning. This pushes you to cultivate a long-
term appetite for learning in any situation.
Which approach is the worst?
Self-esteem learning approach is the worst because Self-esteem can have an impact on a student's
ability to establish and keep friends, as well as educational progress owing to behavioral issues.
Self-esteem, or a lack thereof, can make it difficult for pupils, particularly those with
impairments, to learn or form friendships.
Answer # 02
Psychological defense mechanism
1. Displacement
2. Projection
3. Denial
Displacement:
Individuals handle with severe worry by transferring emotions about a stressor to other things or
activities that are less psychologically threatening, a defense technique known as displacement.
So if we suppose that my boss scolded me in the meeting then after the meeting was over I
would take out my frustration and anger on the other employees who are working below me
without any reason and it is the worst defense mechanism because it will effect the office
environment and it will spread negativity in the workspace and the work will be done effectively
in the office.
Projection:
Individuals cope with acute worry by transferring emotions about a stressor to other things or
activities that are less psychologically threatening, a defense technique known as displacement.
So if we suppose that when I was attending the meeting with my boss and he was scolding me
because I have done something wrong due to which the company had to bear the loss so in order
to save my reputation I will put my blame on other employee in the office and because of that the
work environment in the office will get effected and the other employees will get demotivated
because then they will get blame for doing something wrong that they don’t even know about.
Denial:
One of the most popular defense techniques is denial. When you refuse to acknowledge reality or
facts and you want to avoid unpleasant feelings or occurrences so that why denial happens.
So if we suppose that my boss called me in the meeting so before entering in to my boss room I
will calm down myself by creating a situation in which I will thought that the boss wants to meet
me because he wants to reward me because I have done good for the company and by thinking
that I am avoiding reality.
