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LESSON 3 Issues of Human Development

“No matter the nature of your individuality, you can nurture a


better identity and have a mature, positively rewarding life.”
- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

At the end of the lesson, you should be able to do the following:

 Write an analysis report to the article titled, “How the First Nine
Months Shape the Rest of Your Life”;
 Create a power point presentation and a video discussion about
the three (3) issues of human development; and
 Present one’s views and arguments on the issues of human
development.

Each of us invents informal ways of looking at our own and other


people's growth. These paradigms of human development, while
obviously lacking in scholastic rigor, provide us with a conceptual
framework for understanding ourselves and others.

There are a number of important issues that have been debated


throughout the history of developmental psychology. Commonly, these
issues have something to do with several factors that influence one’s
maturation and development.

This lesson covers three (3) major developmental issues which are
debated by scholars over the years. As a prospective teacher, you are
introduced to these issues so that you can gain a complete
understanding about human development. As you go over this lesson,
you will be expected to share your arguments on these issues.

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“We see how early experiences are so important to lifelong outcomes,
how the early environment literally becomes embedded in the brain and
changes its architecture.”
― Andrew S. Garner

Issues of Human Development

 Nature versus Nurture

The debate over the relative influence of inheritance and the


environment is one of the oldest issues in the field of philosophy and
psychology. The degree to which human behavior is determined by
genetics / biology (nature) or learned through interacting with the
environment (nurture).

Nature refers to an individual’s biological inheritance/a behavior


caused by innate characteristics. The physiological/biological
characteristics we are born with. It is also an inherited characteristics or
genetic. All possible behavior is said to be present from conception.
Genes provide the blueprint for all behaviors; some present from birth. It
is also a developmental approach. E.g. Piaget: Children’s thought
processes change at predetermined age-related stages changes in age are
related to change in behavior.

Nurture refers to environmental experience. Behavior is shaped by


interactions with the environment. Depends on quality of external
influences and NOT genes.

 Continuity versus Discontinuity

A second major consideration in development is that of continuity


and discontinuity. These are two competing theories in developmental
psychology that attempt to explain how people change through the
course of their lives, where the continuity theory says that someone
changes throughout their life along a smooth course while the
discontinuity theory instead contends that people change abruptly.
These changes can be described as a wide variety of someone’s social
and behavioral makeup, like their emotions, traditions and beliefs.

Continuity involves gradual, cumulative change while discontinuity


has distinct changes. Psychologist believe development involves distinct
and separate stages with different kinds of behavior occurring in each
stage.

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 Stability versus Change

A third important issue in developmental psychology involves the


relative importance of early experiences versus those that occur later
in life. These deal with the issue of whether or not personality traits
present during present during infancy endure throughout the life-
span.

Stability implies personality traits present during infancy endure


throughout the lifespan. For example, a naturally extroverted and
talkative baby remain that way for their entire life.

In contrast, change theorists argue that personalities are modified


by interactions with family and experiences at school.

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