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This document discusses three key issues in human development: 1) Nature vs nurture - the influence of genetics vs environment on behavior. It notes this is an interaction rather than either being solely determinative. 2) Continuity vs discontinuity - whether development is gradual or abrupt. It examines both perspectives. 3) Stability vs change - whether early experiences define us or allow development into someone different. It acknowledges evidence for both stability and facilitating change. The key point is that development results from the interaction of multiple theories, rather than any single determinant alone. Both heredity and environment cooperate complexly to influence a person's growth.

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Issue On Human Development

This document discusses three key issues in human development: 1) Nature vs nurture - the influence of genetics vs environment on behavior. It notes this is an interaction rather than either being solely determinative. 2) Continuity vs discontinuity - whether development is gradual or abrupt. It examines both perspectives. 3) Stability vs change - whether early experiences define us or allow development into someone different. It acknowledges evidence for both stability and facilitating change. The key point is that development results from the interaction of multiple theories, rather than any single determinant alone. Both heredity and environment cooperate complexly to influence a person's growth.

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LESSON 3

ISSUES ON HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT
AGREE OR DISAGREE
 1. Heredity exerts a greater influence on human development
than environment.
 2. What has been experienced in the earlier stages of
development can longer be changed.
 3. From the perspective of life span developmentalist, later
experiences the key determinants of a person’s development.
 4. The development of a person depends on their environment.
 5. The development of a person needs the interaction of different
theories
THREE ISSUES IN DEVELOPMENT

Nature versus Nurture


 Continuity versus Discontinuity
 Stability versus Change
Nature versus Nurture
The degree to which human
behavior is determined by
genetics/biology (nature) or learned
through interacting with the
environment (nurture)
Nature
 Behavior is caused by innate characteristics.
 Also a Determinist view- suggests all behavior is determined by
hereditary factors: Inherited characteristics, or genetic make-up
we are born with.
 All possible behaviors are said to be present from conception.
 Genes provide the blueprint for all behaviors; some present from
birth, others pre-programmed to emerge with age.
Nurture
 An individuals behavior is determined by the environment- the
things people teach them, the things they observe, and because of
the different situations they are in.
 Behaviorist theories are nurture theories: - Behavior is shaped by
interactions with the environment.
 Born an empty vessel- waiting to be filled up by experiences
gained from environmental interaction.
 No limit to what they can achieve: -Depends on quality of external
influences and NOT genes.  The quality of the environment is
KEY -You can become anything provided the environment is right.
Nature - Nurture Interaction
 Behavior is often a result of the interaction between nature AND
nurture.
 An individuals characteristics may elicit particular responses in other
people e.g.
 Temperament: how active, responsive or emotional an infant is
influences in part determines their caregivers responses.
 Gender: people tend to react differently to boys and girls due to
expectations of masculine and feminine characteristics.
 Aggression: Displaying aggressive behavior create particular responses
from other people.
TIME FOR SHARING!
Give some of your qualities that you think
were nurtured?
Give some of your qualities that you think
were natured?
Continuity versus Discontinuity
 Continuity and discontinuity 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.
 Furthermore, continuity and discontinuity disagree with one another in how
they assess the changes that someone undergoes throughout the course of their
life. The continuity theory examines the way someone changes in a
quantitative and continuous respect. Discontinuity theory, on the other hand,
looks at these changes through the lens of a qualitative analysis with an
emphasis on the discontinuous nature of how someone changes
TIME FOR SHARING!

Are you for continuity or


discontinuity? Why? Cite a personal
experience to support your answer
Stability versus Change
 STABILITY -First experience has made us.
 CHANGE- First experience develops us into someone
different from who were at an earlier point in
development.
 The stability-change debate describes the developmental
psychology discussion about whether personality traits
that are present in an individual at birth remain constant
or change throughout the life span. For example, does a
naturally extroverted and talkative baby remain that way
for their entire life?
 Change Theorists- argue that personalities are modified by
interactions with family, experiences at school, and
acculturation.
 Studies of children have often revealed impressive stability
over time in aspects of development such as the attachment
to their parents or in personality. However, there is evidence
which suggests a contrary view, that change is both possible
and indeed, is likely under appropriate conditions.
TIME FOR SHARING!

Share some experiences that help


you change or be stable from a
first experience. (e.g. poverty,
abuse, bullying etc.)
The key to the development is the
INTERACTION of all the theories in the
human development rather than one factor
alone. They operate together to produce
person’s intelligence, nature, height, weight
etc. Our development is not 50%-50%. It
must cooperate to each other.
“The interaction of heredity and
environment is so extensive that to ask
which is more important, nature or nurture,
is like asking which is more important to
rectangle, height or width”.
-William Greenough

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