Factors that affect development-Nature/Nurture
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- Created on: 09-05-18 11:26
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- Nature/Nurture
- Feral Children
- Feral children are isolated from human contact from a very young age.
- Nature is what we are born with but nurture is part of our upbringing.
- They have not been nurtured (socialised to become members of society which means:
- Speech is not developed.
- They cannot understand language.
- They cannot walk on two legs.
- They cannot eat with tools (Knives, Forks etc.)
- Lack a sense of self-concept/self-awareness.
- They have not been nurtured (socialised to become members of society which means:
- Nature is what we are born with but nurture is part of our upbringing.
- Feral children are isolated from human contact from a very young age.
- Keywords
- Nature
- Genetic inheritance and biological influences.
- Nurture
- Influence of external factors after conception (social, economic and environmental influences.
- Determinism
- Belief that our future is fixed.
- Choice and interaction
- Belief that we can take control of our own life through choices.
- Nature
- Development
- Our development depends on the interaction of nature, nurture and our individual behaviour.
- The nature v nurture debate focuses on the argument on whether:
- We are born the way we are e.g. People are born evil, hence why they develop aggression and commit crimes.
- OR
- The way we are brought up and our surroundings make us the way we are e.g. This child is aggressive because he/she was brought up in an aggressive environment.
- OR
- We are born the way we are e.g. People are born evil, hence why they develop aggression and commit crimes.
- The nature v nurture debate focuses on the argument on whether:
- Our development depends on the interaction of nature, nurture and our individual behaviour.
- Different beginnings
- You may have had quite a different nine months in the womb compared to that of your siblings and once you're born, anything can happen.
- How do you live?
- We all live in different environments.
- Nobody can claim their upbringing has been the exact same as somebody else's.
- Your genes make you unique, but so does your life.
- your life is different from every other human life on earth.
- Your genes make you unique, but so does your life.
- Nobody can claim their upbringing has been the exact same as somebody else's.
- We all live in different environments.
- Nurture
- Life experiences
- Housing
- Education
- Family
- Environment
- Friends
- A natural laboratory
- Identical twins have the exact same genes.
- Some identical twins find themselves separated at a young age and are brought up in different homes.
- They all share the same genes but experience s very different environment.
- If there are differences between them it is likely to be because of their different environments.
- They all share the same genes but experience s very different environment.
- Some identical twins find themselves separated at a young age and are brought up in different homes.
- Identical twins have the exact same genes.
- A head start.
- Your height as an adult is determined to some extent by your genes.
- But your diet and the environment in which you develop will determine exactly where you end up on the tape measure.
- Your genes have a strong enough effect on your height for you to be able to predict what the adult height of your children should be if they're given a good diet.
- But your diet and the environment in which you develop will determine exactly where you end up on the tape measure.
- Your height as an adult is determined to some extent by your genes.
- A heavy burden?
- Weight is one of those complex features which are likely to be influenced by many different genes and all manner of external influences.
- Diet and exercise will shed the pounds if you stick at it.
- Genetics wont provide an excuse to eat an unhealthy diet but there may be a genetic explanation for why some people find that diets don't seem to work.
- Diet and exercise will shed the pounds if you stick at it.
- Weight is one of those complex features which are likely to be influenced by many different genes and all manner of external influences.
- Can you make a genius?
- Research into the inheritance of IQ has been one of the most controversial areas of genetics.
- Many scientists do believe that a great deal of our intelligence is inherited but there remains controversy.
- Research into the inheritance of IQ has been one of the most controversial areas of genetics.
- Determinism
- Determinism is the belief that your future is fixed or determined either by what you have genetically inherited or by your social environment and experience.
- Choice and interaction
- The alternative to determinism is the belief that people can take control of their own lives through the choices they make.
- Free will
- Some people believe that everything is fixed by nature or nurture (determinism) or that everything is a matter of choice.
- However, you must take into consideration that human life course involves an interaction of nature, nurture, and the decisions and choices that people make.
- Some people believe that everything is fixed by nature or nurture (determinism) or that everything is a matter of choice.
- Biological programming
- Gens provide the instructions for structuring amino acids which in turn influence the proteins within our body cells.
- This shows how genes program the chemical basis of our biology.
- Our body shape and size as well as our behaviour depends on the interaction of our biology broader environmental factors.
- A human being is the result of the interaction of genes (biological programming) and the environmental influences they are exposed to.
- Our body shape and size as well as our behaviour depends on the interaction of our biology broader environmental factors.
- This shows how genes program the chemical basis of our biology.
- Gens provide the instructions for structuring amino acids which in turn influence the proteins within our body cells.
- Nature theorists
- Chomsky- Language Acquisition Device
- Gesell- Maturation Theory
- Some aspects of development such as the ability to speak a first language are thought to be due to an inbuilt genetic process - an instruction in the gene to learn to communicate.
- Feral Children
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