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Psychology One; Nature Vs. Nurture
Part of From the Vault. Part of The Edwin G. Boring and Hanns Sachs Collection.
06/19/1957
This series (of 38 programs) presents Dr. Edwin Boring's famous psychology course which he teaches at Harvard. He gives the basic facts and principles necessary to uncover man's awareness, thought and behavior. Stress will be placed on the biological development of these phenomena and the role of heredity and learning in determining human abilities and human efficiency. 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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- Series
- Psychology One
- Program
- Nature Vs. Nurture
- Series Description
This series (of 38 programs) presents Dr. Edwin Boring's (Harvard University) famous psychology course which he teaches at Harvard. He gives the basic facts and principles necessary to uncover man's awareness, thought and behavior. Stress will be placed on the biological development of these phenomena and the role of heredity and learning in determining human abilities and human efficiency. Series release date: 10/3/1956
- Program Description
This series (of 38 programs) presents Dr. Edwin Boring's famous psychology course which he teaches at Harvard. He gives the basic facts and principles necessary to uncover man's awareness, thought and behavior. Stress will be placed on the biological development of these phenomena and the role of heredity and learning in determining human abilities and human efficiency.
- Duration
00:28:49
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Imprinting
- Lawrence, Conrad
- Psychology
- Nature vs. Nurture
- Harvard University
- Biological Inheritance
- Boring, Edwin G.
- Zoology
- Social Inheritance
- Twins
- Genres
- Educational
- Topics
- Psychology
- Contributors
- Hollander, Lilly (Other (see note))
- Busiek, William S. (Sound)
- Harvey, Frank (Engineer)
- Messenger, Lawrence J. (Other (see note))
- Lovell, Edgar (Other (see note))
- Richardson, Arthur (Engineer)
- Sisson, Thomas K. (Producer)
- Rice, Roger W. (Other (see note))
- Pierce, William W., III (Narrator)
- Boring, Edwin G. (Host)
- Davis, David M. (Director)
- Prodan, Peter (Other (see note))
- Gardner, Elizabeth (Other (see note))
- Pray, Leonard C. (Other (see note))
- Stevens, Joseph C. (Other (see note))
- Publication Information
- Courtesy of Thirteen/WNET New York and WGBH Boston
- Citation
- Chicago: “Psychology One; Nature Vs. Nurture,” 06/19/1957, GBH Archives, accessed April 19, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_87A4D8EB4DF044D48313ED7FA6F0A2A7.
- MLA: “Psychology One; Nature Vs. Nurture.” 06/19/1957. GBH Archives. Web. April 19, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_87A4D8EB4DF044D48313ED7FA6F0A2A7>.
- APA: Psychology One; Nature Vs. Nurture. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_87A4D8EB4DF044D48313ED7FA6F0A2A7