Transcript Issues in Human Development • Nature/Nurture: Heredity or environment most influential? • Goodness/Badness: Underlying good or evil • Active/Passive Development: Self determination or by others • Continuity/Discontinuity:

Issues in Human Development
• Nature/Nurture: Heredity or
environment most influential?
• Goodness/Badness: Underlying good or
evil
• Active/Passive Development: Self
determination or by others
• Continuity/Discontinuity: Stages or
gradual change
• Quantitative/Qualitative Changes:
Degree or transformation
• Universal or Context Specific
Development
Participation Question 1
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Directions: Choose one option for each statement and write down the corresponding letter.
Biological influences and learning experiences
are thought to contribute to development.
Overall:
a. Biological factors contribute far more
b. Biological factors contribute somewhat more
c. Both biological and environmental factors
contribute equally
d. Environmental factors contribute somewhat
more
e.Environmental factors contribute far more
Audience Participation Question 2
Children are innately:
a. Mostly bad; they are born with
basically negative, selfish impulses
b. Neither good nor bad; they are
tabula rasae (blank slates)
c. Both good and bad; they are born
with predispositions that are both
negative and positive
d. Mostly good; they are born with
many positive tendencies
Audience Participation Question 3
People are basically:
a. Active beings who are the prime
determiners of their own abilities
and traits
b. Passive beings whose
characteristics are molded either by
social influences (parents, other
significant people, and outside
events) or by biological changes
beyond their control.
Audience Participation Question 4
Development proceeds:
a. through stages so that the
individual changes rather abruptly
into a different kind of person than
s/he was in an earlier stage
b. In a variety of ways – some stagelike, and some gradual or continuous
c. Continuously – in small increments
without abrupt changes or distinct
stages
Audience Participation Question 5
When you compare the development
of different individuals, you see:
a. Many similarities: Children and
adults develop along universal paths
and experience similar changes at
similar ages
b. Many differences: Different people
often undergo different sequences of
change and have widely different
timetables of development