Nature and Nurture both influence human development

Nature and Nurture
both influence
human development
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Nature and Nurture both influence human development.......................................................3
Erickson’s Psychosocial Theory.............................................................................................4
Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Theory.....................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
The nature nurture debate is related to relative contribution that both the influences make to
the behaviour of human like cognitive traits, psychopathology, personality and temperament.
This report is based on the title “Nature and Nurture both influence human development” and it
involves discussion about this argument by using Erickson’s Psychosocial Theory and
Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Theory.
MAIN BODY
Nature and Nurture both influence human development
Nature is defined as what an individual think of as pre-wiring as well as is influenced
through genetic inheritance and other biological process. On the other hand, nurture is generally
stated as the influence of extrinsic factors after conception. The nature nurture debate is related
to relative contribution that both the influences make to the behaviour of human like cognitive
traits, psychopathology, personality and temperament. Nativism is long been known as certain
physical characteristics which are biologically determined through genetic inheritance.
Pigmentation of skin, straight or curly hair, colour of eyes and certain diseases are all the
function of genes which an individual inherit (Mayers & Vander Heiden, (2017). These facts
have led various individuals to speculate as whether psychological characteristics like
personality attributes, mental abilities and behavioural tendencies are also weird in prior to an
individual born. Those individuals who adopt extreme nature position are called nativists. The
earlier a specific ability appears, the more possibly it is to be under the impact of genetic factors.
At the another act of spectrum, environmentalist is there who are also called as empiricists. This
is an extreme nurture position where the basic assumption is that at development of mind of
human, is tabula rasa as well as that this is gradually filled as an outcome of experience. As per
this view point, behavioural differences and psychological characteristics which emerge by
infancy and childhood are outcome of learning (Kail, & Cavanaugh, (2018). It is the way an
individual bought up which directs psychologically significant child development aspect as well
as the concept of maturation execute only to biological. Nature includes all the hereditary and
genes factors and nurture involves all the environmental factors. In past, debates often took place
over relative contribution of nature versus nurture, which is a very one sided way with one sided
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