Developmental Psychology: Nature vs Nurture Debate and Early Childhood Experience

This article delves into the nature vs nurture debate in child development and the effects of early childhood experience on development through case studies of feral children. It explores psychological theories such as Erik Erikson's life stage theory and Carl Rogers' theory of self. The article emphasizes the importance of nurture care for feral children to improve their cognitive and linguistic capacities and overall psychological wellbeing.

Developmental Psychology

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
Nurture Debate in child development......................................................................................................3
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................................5
Psychological theories for the effects of early childhood experience on development............................5
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................................6
REFRENCES.............................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Development psychology plays keen role for improvising analysis and studying specific
aspects connected to feral children, which are variedly crucial. The study will analyze case
studies of Isabelle and Genie, where both experiences and specific aspects will be analyzed.
Research will also in detail research about theories of nurture and nature in child development
and importance attached to development within their living goals.
TASK 1
Nurture Debate among children development
The Cognitive and linguistic capacities found among Isabelle and Genie can be
explained effectively by nurture within case study of Feral children. The Feral child are are
individuals who have lived isolated from specific care and belongings within human contact
from childhood. It has little experience within human care behavior, and requires specific care
for coming out from depression from isolation. Case studies of Isabelle and Genie enables to
analyze that both are feral children, and have been isolated from human contacts within young
age from childhood. Both Feral children case studies, enables to develop effective competencies
where cognitive and linguistic capacities both are specifically evolved. Nature and nurture in

child development, further improvises best scale competencies for improvised working pace
actively (Paris, 2022).
Cognitive and linguistic capacities is study of language in cognitive function and refers to
crucial role within immediate informational structures. Isabelle has learned to communicate with
personal system in gesture, where severe physically and intellectually retarded characteristics
have been found. She was fearful for various strangers and was reacting violently towards men,
where doctors enabled Isabelle to recapture lost years within early within systematic and skillful
program of training.
Delayed development in response to intense socialization process was rapid, essentially
role played by education within stages of child development. The cognitive and linguistic
capacities enable to analyze that intense stages of child improvement has to be improved on,
where nurture debate plays keen role in improved learning experience. Cognitive and linguistic
capacities, both need to be evaluated based on specific learning competencies for strengthening
wider scale improved living. There are varied cognitive and linguistic approaches, that have
been found to be authentic based on specific working pace based on extended living standards
(Ramos and et.al., 2022).
It can be also analyzed that nurture debate in child development enables to improve love
and care, generate mutual understanding and clearly improvise wider scale functional vision
towards diverse improved living standards. Genie has been locked at room alone for more than
10 years, and was tied into sleeping bag with restrained arms and was put into over-sized into
cover made of metal screening. This can be also analyzed that Genie needs specific nurture care,
to be evolved on further towards imperative living standards. Isabel and genie both need special
care, as per cognitive and linguistic capabilities need special nurture care for improvising further
language and mind development. There has been specific vision extended on towards case
studies engagement, based on engaged priorities for diverse working growth.
The analysis signifies that Genie was tied to potty chair and thin her physical strength was
retarded, with continuous deprivation. Cognitive and linguistic capacities enable to identify that
Genie has abilities to think logically, and achieved perfect score on adult level test that measured
special aspects which are unable to master language (Ulvesta and Markussen, 2022). Genie was
unable to master basics of language, where this hampered effective learning pace diversely. With

years of isolation, child early years have been lacking exposure of language which has led to
brain abnormalities. It can be analyzed that learning impairment within younger age, where
communication skills are specifically essential to improve strengthened evolvement.
Nature has significant impact of physical approaches among various neurotransmitters
and genome sequencing, in specific children development that focuses on nurture. It develops
specific parameters such as peer pressure and social influences, found to be authentically
essential for developing accurate awareness. Isabelle and Genie are feral children and need
specific nurture care, that focuses on improvement in development on extended care goals
diversely. The nurture care will enable Isabelle and Genie to come over depression, anxiety
issues and develop timely improvement in physical and psychological wellness. Both have to be
specifically worked on towards nature development, where extended new scope has to be
evolved. Isabelle and Genie will be able to develop effective learning procedures, generate new
engaged experience for strengthening their vitality competently (von Tetzchner, 2022).
TASK 2
Psychological theories for the effects of early childhood experience on development.
There are various Psychological theories for the effects of early childhood
experience on development is essential factor, where attaining specific focus on extended new
behavioral goal are focused on. Orphans insistence on being inseparable specifies
that adults caretakers despite being jealous and possessive of various
relationships. Childhood experience was ideally analyzed, with specific
influence from deprivation aspects and generation of best analyzed skills. It
slowed spurt of children in social and language development, which also
lowered psychological wellbeing diversely. The case study specifies that five
among six children, has been adopted where they were eight in number.
Case study highlights that there were six Jewish orphans were rescued. The
concentration camp in 1945 at the end of the Second World War, as further impacted
psychologically.

Various experiences of feral children has been analyzed within case study, which has
been found to be authentic and extended determined targets for improved working engagement
(von Tetzchner., 2022). The case study signifies that children were not related to each other, but
further has kept together as a group and cared for by camp inmates. Children often got into
trouble, where children living specific was factor in which survivors of Holocaust case study
analyzes effects of orphan early experience in development.
Erik Erikson life stage theory believed that human potentialities are developed on stages
which are development within personality dependence which is directly on the resolution of
existential crises factors which are as follows: trust, autonomy, intimacy, individuality, integrity,
and identity parameters. Childhood experience can be further improved on by developing rapport
on new paradigms, where analysis on case studies specifically improvises wider scale functional
efficacy. As per the analysis, children’s positive feelings were centered exclusively. It further
cared greatly for each other, which specifically was essential to be integrally essential. They
refused to be separated from each other, where adult’s t demonstrated cold indifference or fearful
hostility (Fitriani and et.al., 2022).
 Stage 1 can be explained as follows : Trust vs. Mistrust.
 Stage 2 can be explained as follows: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt.
 Stage 3 can be explained as follows: Initiative vs. Guilt.
 Stage 4 can be explained as follows: Industry vs. Inferiority.
 Stage 5 can be explained as follows: Identity vs. Confusion.
 Stage 6 can be explained as follows: Intimacy vs. Isolation.
 Stage 7 can be explained as follows: Generativity vs. Stagnation.
 Stage 8 can be explained as follows: Integrity vs. Despair.
Carl Rogers theory of self, achieves self-actualization that means state of congruence
which means self-actualization occurs when person ideal self is congruent within actual
behavior. The self-concept is individual knowledge based where components such as self-image
and self-esteem and ideal self are related to active, dynamic and influenced by social situations
for seeking self-knowledge. The theory is related to early childhood experience analysis based on

development for competent efficiency, and generating new experience for child overall
wellbeing. Also specific learning pace determines rapid vision, towards technical scope for
timely improvement within children psychological development. As per carl roger’s theory of
self, person need to be given proper treatments and developed learning vision for extended better
optimized vision expansion. The carl Rogers method, also signifies better improved vision and
strengthened better evolution towards self-actualization goals for extended generation of better
new scale evolved improvement (Appiah and et.al., 2022).
CONCLUSION
The research within study has concluded specific factors which are connected to
improved working vision, as per various development psychology aspects for improved living
standards. Study has concluded that psychology theories have specific influence on feral
children, which go through deprivation and separation at early childhood age.

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