Nature Nurture Debate
SPY1080- INTRODUCTION TO DEVELOPMENTAL PHYSCOLOGY NATURE AND NURTURE DEBATE
This essay will outline the drawing on the physiological theories presented so far in the module, I am going to outline and discuss key issues in the nature/nurture debate on children’s development and how it will effect child development. The nature/nurture debate is very important in phycology concerns the relative importance of the influence of nature or nurture in explaining human behaviour.
The nature/nurture debate is one of the oldest arguments in history of phycology, both nature and nurture play important roles in human development but nobody yet knows whether we are developed because of nature or nurture. The nature/nurture debate centres of the relative …show more content…
The Nature Theory shows that things such as intelligence, personality, aggression, and sexual orientation are also encoded in an individual 's DNA. For example some people believe that people who have sex same relationships are born that way and it is in their DNA. People who support the nature debate believe that a child’s personality is determined by genetics and their personality is inherited from their parents and their behaviour is also inherited and is not influenced by how they have been brought up. The issue of nature having a great impact on a child 's development can be shown in the studies of twins for example Cara Flanagan explored the Minnesota study in which a set of twins was raised separately. In one case, a set of identical twins was raised apart, known as the Jim twins. They did not meet until they were almost forty and had many similarities even though they were raised apart. Flanagan (2002) says “"The Minnesota twin study concluded that on multiple measures of personality and temperament, occupational and leisure-time interests and social attitudes, mono-zygotic twins reared apart are about as similar as are mono-zygotic twins reared together" this shows that nature plays a big role in are development and This leads to the conclusion that the similarities between twins are due to genes, not …show more content…
According to Piaget children are born with very basic mental structure that is genetically inherited on which all learning and knowledge is based also he believed that Children construct an understanding of the world around them, then experience discrepancies between what they already know and what they discover in their environment. Through studying the field of education Piaget focused on accommodation and assimilation. Assimilation is one of the two processes coined by Jean Paget, it describes how humans perceive and adapt to new information. He believed that there were four stages of the cognitive development these were sensorimotor stage, Preoperational stage, Concrete operational stage, Formal operational stage. Piaget wanted to find out the four-stage model that children go through as they develop complex reasoning skills, he done an experiment with kids were he wanted to see children’s concepts of amounts, speeds and height. Children start out in the sensorimotor stage, which lasts until they’re roughly 2; they don’t understand what objects are and don’t know if their hand is their own. From the age of 2-7 children start to recognise different objects and symbols for example they are able to draw various shapes. At the age of
This essay will outline the drawing on the physiological theories presented so far in the module, I am going to outline and discuss key issues in the nature/nurture debate on children’s development and how it will effect child development. The nature/nurture debate is very important in phycology concerns the relative importance of the influence of nature or nurture in explaining human behaviour.
The nature/nurture debate is one of the oldest arguments in history of phycology, both nature and nurture play important roles in human development but nobody yet knows whether we are developed because of nature or nurture. The nature/nurture debate centres of the relative …show more content…
The Nature Theory shows that things such as intelligence, personality, aggression, and sexual orientation are also encoded in an individual 's DNA. For example some people believe that people who have sex same relationships are born that way and it is in their DNA. People who support the nature debate believe that a child’s personality is determined by genetics and their personality is inherited from their parents and their behaviour is also inherited and is not influenced by how they have been brought up. The issue of nature having a great impact on a child 's development can be shown in the studies of twins for example Cara Flanagan explored the Minnesota study in which a set of twins was raised separately. In one case, a set of identical twins was raised apart, known as the Jim twins. They did not meet until they were almost forty and had many similarities even though they were raised apart. Flanagan (2002) says “"The Minnesota twin study concluded that on multiple measures of personality and temperament, occupational and leisure-time interests and social attitudes, mono-zygotic twins reared apart are about as similar as are mono-zygotic twins reared together" this shows that nature plays a big role in are development and This leads to the conclusion that the similarities between twins are due to genes, not …show more content…
According to Piaget children are born with very basic mental structure that is genetically inherited on which all learning and knowledge is based also he believed that Children construct an understanding of the world around them, then experience discrepancies between what they already know and what they discover in their environment. Through studying the field of education Piaget focused on accommodation and assimilation. Assimilation is one of the two processes coined by Jean Paget, it describes how humans perceive and adapt to new information. He believed that there were four stages of the cognitive development these were sensorimotor stage, Preoperational stage, Concrete operational stage, Formal operational stage. Piaget wanted to find out the four-stage model that children go through as they develop complex reasoning skills, he done an experiment with kids were he wanted to see children’s concepts of amounts, speeds and height. Children start out in the sensorimotor stage, which lasts until they’re roughly 2; they don’t understand what objects are and don’t know if their hand is their own. From the age of 2-7 children start to recognise different objects and symbols for example they are able to draw various shapes. At the age of