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英语六级巅峰阅读附详解 第47期:人文知识

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People have wondered for a long time how their personalities and behaviors arc formed.It's not easy to explain why one person is intelligent and another is not. or why one is cooperative and another is competitive.

Social scientists are, of course, extremely interested in these types of question. They want to explain why we possess certain characteristics and exhibits certain behaviors. There are no clear answers yet, but two distinct schools of thought on thee matter have developed. As one might expect the two approaches are very different from one another. and there is a great deal of debate between proponents of each theory. Thecontroversy is often conveniently referred to as"nature/nurture".

Those who support the "nature" side of the conflict believe that our personalities and behavior patterns are largely determined by biological and genetic factor. That our environment has little. if anything to do with our abilities. characteristics. and behavior is central to this theory. Taken to an extreme, this theory Maintains that our behavior is predetermined to such a great degree that we are almost completely governed by our instincts.

Proponents of the "nurture" theory, or, as they are often called. behaviorists. claim that our environmentis more important than our biologically based instincts in determining how we will act. Behaviorists see humans as being whose behavior is almost completely shaped by their surroundings. Their view of the human being is quite mechanistic; they maintain that like machines. humans respond to environmental stimuli as the basis of their behavior.

The social and political implications or these two theories are profound. In the United Stares, for example, blacks often score below whites on standardized intelligent test. This leads some "nature" proponents to conclude that blacks are genetically interior to whites. Behaviorists, in contrast. say that the differences in scores are due to the fact that blacks are often deprived of many of the educational and other environmental advantages that white enjoy. and that. as a result. they do not develop the same responses thatwhites do.

Neither of these theories can yet fully explain human behavior. In fact, it is quite likely that the key to our behavior lies somewhere between these two extremes. That the controversy will continue for a long time is certain.

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determined [di'tə:mind]

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adj. 坚毅的,下定决心的

 
factor ['fæktə]

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n. 因素,因子
vt. 把 ... 因素包括

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social ['səuʃəl]

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adj. 社会的,社交的
n. 社交聚会

 
contrast ['kɔntræst,kən'træst]

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n. 差别,对比,对照物
v. 对比,成对照<

 
manifestation [.mænifes'teiʃən]

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n. 显示,证明,示威运动

 
concerned [kən'sə:nd]

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adj. 担忧的,关心的

 
competitive [kəm'petitiv]

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adj. 竞争的,比赛的

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controversy ['kɔntrəvə:si]

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n. (公开的)争论,争议

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genetic [dʒi'netik]

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adj. 基因的,遗传的,起源的

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instinct ['instiŋkt]

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adj. 充满的
n. 本能,天性,直觉

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