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

STABILITY
CONTINUITY VS.
DISCONTINUITY
ISSUES ON HUMAN VS.
DEVELOPMENT CHANGE
 vs

Nature vs Nurture
 TIME FOR SHARING!
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 The change is distinct changes
changes happening. happening.

Supported by Erickson’s
Supported by Skinner’s operant
Psychosocial Theory of human
conditioning.
development.
Skinner’s Operant
Conditioning
Development
 TIME FOR SHARING!
1. Are you for continuity or
discontinuity? Why? Cite a
personal experience to
support your answer.
STABILITY CHANGE
First experience has First experience develops
made us. us into someone different
from who were at an
earlier point in
development.
 TIME FOR SHARING!
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 to the development is the

human keydevelopment rather than one factor alone.

INTERACTION of all the theories in the
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
important to rectangle, height or width.

-William Greenough