Nature is defined by the genetic and hormonal explanations for your behavior that you receive from your parents when you are conceived (McLeod 1). Nature has to do with things like your blood type and the biological traits that you receive for each parent that allows you to look like them. Nature also has to do with our sex drives and aggression and how they both affect our behavior (McLeod 1). However nurture is …show more content…
My development as a child was largely affected by nurture because of my parent’s authoritative parenting style. Authoritative parents are defined as parents who are strict and warm, they demand mature behavior but, they use reason rather than force in discipline (P.242). Nurture was also influential to my development because without learning skills with the help of my parents, such as writing and cooking, my zone of proximal development would have suffered. This lack of proximal development would have affected my overall growth and development. The Zone of proximal development is defined as Vyogotsky’s term for the situation in which a child carries out tasks with the help of someone more