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Issues on Human Development

CAISIP, JOHN MARVIN D. | BSED-ENG1
FACILITATOR
Three issues on
TOPICS Human Development
1. Nature versus Nurture
2. Continuity versus Discontinuity
3. Stability versus Change
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ACTIVITY
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
Nature v.s. Nurture Continuity v.s. Discontinuity Stability v.s. Change
Which has a more Does development involves Is development best
significant influence on gradual, cumulative change described as involving
human development? (Continuity) or distinct stability or as involving
change (Discontinuity)? change?
o Nature refers to an
individual’s biological To make it more concrete, here is a
question:
 Are we what our first
inheritance. experiences have made
 Is development like a of us or do we develop
o Nurture refers to seedling that gradually into someone different
environmental grows into an acacia tree? from who we are at an
experiences. or is it more like a caterpillar earlier point in
becoming a butterfly? development?
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TIMES UP!
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ANALYSIS : GROUP 1
Nature v.s. Nurture

Which has a more significant influence on
human development?
o Nature refers to an individual’s biological
inheritance.
o Nurture refers to environmental experiences.
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ANALYSIS : GROUP 1
 Who are pro-nature? Pro-nurture?

 Are there additional reasons you can
give in favor of nature/nurture?
 Who are neither for nature nor
nurture? Why?
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ANALYSIS : GROUP 2
Continuity v.s. Discontinuity
Does development involves gradual,
cumulative change (Continuity) or distinct
change (Discontinuity)?
To make it more concrete, here is a question:
 Is development like a seedling that gradually grows into an

acacia tree? or is it more like a caterpillar becoming a
butterfly?
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ANALYSIS : GROUP 2
 Who go for continuity? Discontinuity?

 Can you give additional arguments to
defend continuity/discontinuity?
 Who are in between continuity &
discontinuity? Why?
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ANALYSIS : GROUP 3
Stability v.s. Change

Is development best described as involving
stability or as involving change?
 Are we what our first experiences have made of us or do we develop into
someone different from who we are at an earlier point in development?
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ANALYSIS : GROUP 3
 Who claims stability is more correct

than change?
 Who claims change is more correct
than stability?
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INTRODUCTION
Each of us has his/her own way of looking at our own and
other people’s development. These paradigms of human
development while obviously lacking in
scholastic vigor, provide us with a conceptual framework for
understanding ourselves and others. Scholars have come up
with their own models of human development. Back up by solid
research, they take stand on issues on human development.
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most important most significant
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A Closer Look at the Nature vs. Nurture
both factors play a critical role
interact in important ways all throughout life.

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-nature-versus-nurture-2795392
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So what exactly
is it all about???
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Nature refers to the process of

biological maturation inheritance
and maturation.
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common specifies heredity (DNA)
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Nurture refers to the

impact of the environment.
process of learning through experiences.

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Do genetic or environmental factors

have a greater influence on your
behavior?
Do inherited traits or life experiences
play a greater role in shaping your
personality?
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genetic inheritance
environmental factors
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Continuity vs. Discontinuity
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https://www.simplypsychology.org/developmental-psychology.html
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Continuity
Normative development is typically

viewed as a continual and cumulative
process.
▧ change is gradual
▧ more skillful
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Discontinuity
The discontinuity view sees
development as more abrupt.
▧ Succession of changes
○ Different behaviors in different
age.
▧ Stages
▧ Biological changes provide the
potential for these changes.
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“stages” in life
Developmental Stages
periods of life
distinct transitions
physical or psychological functioning
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Psychologists of the discontinuity view

believe that people go through the
same stages, in the same order, but
not necessarily at the same rate.
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Stability
Stability implies personality traits

present during infancy endure
throughout the lifespan.
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Change
Change theorists argue that
personalities are modified by
interactions with family,
experiences at school, and
acculturation.
“PLASTICITY” - capacity for change
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ABSTRACTION
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Are girls less likely to do well
in math because of their
‘feminine’ nature or because
of the society’s “masculine”
bias?
32 (Santrock, 2002)?
How extensively can the
elderly be trained to reason
more effectively? How much,
if at all, does our memory
decline in old age?
Can techniques be used to
prevent or reduce the decline
for children who experienced
a world of poverty, neglect by
parents, and poor schooling
in childhood?
Can enriched experiences in
adolescence remove the
'deficits' that they
encountered earlier in their
development?
What is the
right answer?
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Development is not all nature or
all nurture, not all continuity or
discontinuity and not all stability or
all change (Lerner, 1998 as
quoted by Santrock, 2002).
37
“
All of them characterize
our life-span development.
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the interaction of nature and
nurture
🔑 to development
rather than either factor alone

39 by Santrock, 2002)
(Rutter, 2001 as quoted
"both-and"
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Both genes and environment
are necessary for a person
even to exist.
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Without genes, there is no
person.
Without environment, there is
no person.
(Scarr and Wcinbcrg, 1980, quoted by Santrock, 2002).
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Heredity and environment
operate together or cooperate
and interact.
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MODULE 3

Issues on Human Development

Nature v.s. Nurture

 Who are pro-nature? Pro-nurture?

 Is development like a seedling that gradually grows into an

 Who go for continuity? Discontinuity?

Stability v.s. Change

 Who claims stability is more correct

both factors play a critical role

interact in important ways all throughout life.

Nature refers to the process of

common specifies heredity (DNA)

Nurture refers to the

process of learning through experiences.

Do genetic or environmental factors

Normative development is typically

Psychologists of the discontinuity view

Stability implies personality traits

rather than either factor alone

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