Nature Vs Nurture

For years, many philosophers and psychologists have argued the debate of whether nature or nurture takes the cake for reasonings behind certain behaviors. The argument surrounds itself by the variables of the natural forces that include biology, physiology and instinct and the nurture qualities being learning, and environmental or social factors. With that argument, perception is also another subject being added to the equation. This debate is contemplating whether it be either nature or nurture being the explanation behind the way people perceive objects and illusions the way that they do. With that being said, in specific illusions it is presented that nurture seems to be the more dominant of the two variables when it comes to perception
This also applies to the Ponzo illusion where older individuals are again more susceptible to the illusion more so than younger individuals. This is a byproduct of nurture. Younger individuals can more readily see the image reversals because they have been less exposed to figure-ground illusions in their lifetime. As opposed to older individuals who have had seemingly more years to be able to acknowledge and become familiar with figure-ground illusions. It’s not because older individuals are any less capable of seeing illusions, they’ve just had more experience determining which image they see in a specific object, and they’re more likely to be confident or adamant about their decision versus that of a younger person who might seem more open and compliant to what they witness. As for the Ponzo illusion and how
He had removed cataracts from research participants who had been blind from birth and then discovered that these participants were not able to suddenly “see” after the surgery. At first, they were not even sure if sensations were coming in though their eyes. All they were able to detect were figure-ground relationships and color. This example is an obvious detection of nurture simply because the research participants who were originally blind would have no sense of color, shape or relationship detection for anything. In dispute to the nature argument, biologically, these participants would not be able to just pick something out, an example of this being colors, if they were blind one moment then able to see the next. It would have to had been a skill taught to them by someone as to what specific colors are what and be how to be able to depict a ground-figure relationship. When we as humans are born and start to mature, literally we are able to tell the difference between the shade of blue and the shade of pink, but we would have no way of knowing that the names of those colors are blue and pink. Information such as that is something that we as humans need to be educated on, through nurture. That type of knowledge is not something that we are born with, but something we gain as information over years of education and