The nature versus nurture debates concern the relative importance of an individual's innate qualities ("nature", for example nativism, or innatism) versus personal experiences ("nurture", for example empiricism or behaviorism) in determining or causing individual differences in physical and behavioral traits. The view that humans acquire all or almost all their behavioral traits from "nurture" is known as tabula rasa ("blank slate"). This question was once considered to be an appropriate divisio… (More on Nurture)