environmental influence
Surroundings affecting development
Environmental influence refers to the effects that surroundings, conditions, and external factors have on development, behavior, or outcomes.
The term appears most often in discussions of nature versus nurture: Researchers debated how much of intelligence comes from genetics versus environmental influences.
Environmental influences include family, culture, education, climate, and physical surroundings—essentially everything outside inherited biology that shapes who we become or how something develops.
- nature vs nurtureWhat shapes us more
- stressorsAgents causing tension
- green spacesOutdoor vegetated public areas
- cultureCollective social practices
- climatePrevailing atmospheric conditions
carbon footprint · market trends · ecosystem · soil quality · water resources · biodiversity · air quality · community · peer pressure · social pressure · resource scarcity · social norms · flora · fauna · weather · urbanization · urban sprawl · food desert
- geneticsDNA, allele, genotype, genes, gene
- variationgenetic diversity, polymorphism, geographic variation, subspecies, coat patterns
- German NaturalismThe Weavers, Before Sunrise, Magda
environmental influencegenetic predisposition
Inherited increased likelihood
heredity · inherited traits · genetic factors · biological inheritance · genetic inheritance
environmental influencenature
Inherent quality or disposition
genetic determinism · nativism · innateness · instinct · essential nature
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