ISSUES ON HUMAN

DEVELOPMENT
 AGREE 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
 NATURE
VS.
NUTURE

CONTINUITY STABILITY
VS.
DISCONTINUI VS.
TY CHANGE
 vs

Nature vs Nurture
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1. Give some of your
qualities that you think
were nurtured?
2.Give some of your
qualities that you think
were natured?
3. What do you think is the
most significant in the
human development of
people?Why?
CONTINUITY DISCONTINUITY

There is gradual and

increasing changes The change is distinct
happening. changes happening.

Supported by Erickson’s
Supported by Skinner’s Psychosocial Theory of
operant conditioning. human development.
Skinner’s Operant
Conditioning
Erickson’s Psychosocial
Development
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1. Are you for

continuity or
discontinuity? Why?
Cite a personal
experience to
support your
answer.
 STABILITY
First experience has
made us. CHANGE
First experience
develops us into
someone different from
who were at an earlier
point in development.
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1. Share some experiences

that help you change or
be stable from a first
experience. (e.g. poverty,
abuse, bullying etc.)
 Which is the most
significant in all the
theories presented to
the human
development?
 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.
 AGREE DISAGREE

1. Heredity exerts a greater influence on human

development than environment.
2. What has been experienced in the earlier stages of
development can no longer be changed.
3. From the perspective of life span developmentalist, later
experiences are 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.
 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
importanttorectangle,heightorwidth.
-William Greenough
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