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Which view best explains how personality develops?

Both inborn traits and experience matter.

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  1. Nature and nurture interact ✔
  2. Only genes matter
  3. Only childhood training matters

Why: Nature includes inherited qualities, while nurture includes environment and experience. Modern thinking treats them as interacting influences, not total opposites.

Huh, didn't know that: The question of whether leaders are born or made is part of this debate.

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Nature and nurture started a team because neither wanted all the credit.
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Answer: Nature and nurture interact. Nature includes inherited qualities, while nurture includes environment and experience. Modern thinking treats them as interacting influences, not total opposites.

  1. Learn to Lead Volume 2, Chapter 6 www.gocivilairpatrol.com/media/cms/L2L_Mod2_Ch6_The_Human_Element_107BC137426D2.pdf
    nature and nurture are not mutually exclusive. Rather, nature and nurture affect one another.
    Checked 2026-10-10.

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