Overview
You are a member of SNHU’s champion debate club. You have had a successful season and are well on your way to the College Debate Bowl championship. Your team’s objective for this event will be to prepare a defense for a position on the following topic: Which impacts human behavior more: nature or nurture?
As a Psychology student, you are at an advantage. You are familiar with this topic, as well as the historical significance of this back and forth debate. In order to prepare, you will create a graphic organizer to summarize your thinking. This will help the team argue its side, as well as counter the opposing viewpoint. Because you don’t yet know which side you will be on, your goal is to give as much objective information as possible.
Prompt
The following resource supports your work on the milestone:
- Behaviors to Consider PDF
For your graphic organizer, you must address the rubric criteria listed below:
- Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the neuroscience perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
- Use the suggested behaviors to support your answer.
- Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the evolutionary perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
- Use the suggested behaviors to support your answer.
- Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the behavior genetics perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
- Use the suggested behaviors to support your answer.
- Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the psychodynamic perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
- Use the suggested behaviors to support your answer.
- Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the behavioral perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
- Use the suggested behaviors to support your answer.
- Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the cognitive perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
- Use the suggested behaviors to support your answer.
- Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the social-cultural perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
- Use the suggested behaviors to support your answer.
Guidelines for Submission
You will use your Soomo webtext writing template to complete the milestone and download your completed graphic organizer. Sources should be cited according to APA style.
Project One Milestone RubricCriteriaExemplary (100%)Proficient (85%)Needs Improvement (55%)Not Evident (0%)ValueNeuroscience PerspectiveExceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerSummarizes opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the neuroscience perspective of psychology with a minimum of 3 to 5 sentencesShows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include details on why nature or nurture is more significant for the neuroscience perspectiveDoes not attempt criterion13Evolutionary PerspectiveExceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerSummarizes opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the evolutionary perspective of psychology with a minimum of 3 to 5 sentencesShows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include details on why nature or nurture is more significant for the evolutionary perspectiveDoes not attempt criterion13Behavior Genetics PerspectiveExceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerSummarizes opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the behavior genetics perspective of psychology with a minimum of 3 to 5 sentencesShows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include details on why nature or nurture is more significant for the behavior genetics perspectiveDoes not attempt criterion13Psychodynamic PerspectiveExceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerSummarizes opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the psychodynamic perspective of psychology with a minimum of 3 to 5 sentencesShows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include details on why nature or nurture is more significant for the psychodynamic perspectiveDoes not attempt criterion13Behavioral PerspectiveExceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerSummarizes opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the behavioral perspective of psychology with a minimum of 3 to 5 sentencesShows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include details on why nature or nurture is more significant for the behavioral perspectiveDoes not attempt criterion13Cognitive PerspectiveExceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerSummarizes opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the cognitive perspective of psychology with a minimum of 3 to 5 sentencesShows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include details on why nature or nurture is more significant for the cognitive perspectiveDoes not attempt criterion13Social-Cultural PerspectiveExceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerSummarizes opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the social-cultural perspective of psychology with a minimum of 3 to 5 sentencesShows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include details on why nature or nurture is more significant for the social-cultural perspectiveDoes not attempt criterion13Articulation of ResponseExceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerClearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, demonstrating an understanding of audience and purposeShows progress toward proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, negatively impacting readabilitySubmission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas9Total:
