Where children live and the way they are brought up by their parents/carers has an effect on whom they are as a person and how they will develop. For instance if parents are rich or poor, live in good or bad housing, if they are capable loving carers or struggle with parenthood and/or their own (mental) health, or if there is abuse or lack of interest in the family unit, all these circumstances will make a difference to a child’s life and their physical and emotional health might be affected by these different scenarios. A child’s family and their home should be their safe haven and if it is not, then it can have a serious affect on them emotionally. Some children might be negatively affected by situations in their live and they might be in need of help but unable to ask for- or obtain it, for instance respite care to help caring for a sick parent.
The biological theory focusses on the matter that children’s behavioral and emotional responses change as a direct result of particular environmental stimuli (McDevitt & Ormrod, 2010). For example, George was taken from a jungle and then raised in a home where he is treated and acts like a child. This is an instance of nature versus nurture. Naturally, and biologically George is a monkey. If he stayed in the jungle and didn’t come into contact with a human filled environment, he would still act like a monkey.
This short documentary ‘’ Fast Food, Fat Profits: Obesity in America’’ presented by Josh Rushing focused on the rise of obesity in America among young adult. According to this documentary, obesity has reached a crisis point in America, as two out of every three Americans are overweight. While there are many factors that played a role in this issue, he believed that cheap food, food deserts and processed food are the reasons why one out of every three Americans is obese in our country. Back in the days, malnutrition and food shortage have been the scourge of humankind. However, as chronic food shortage issue has been resolved, we are now faced with the epidemic of obesity, and in most countries, it is now recognized as a public health crisis.
Babies and toddlers grow and develop at their own pace. One child might start to walk were as another child that is the same ago is perfectly content with just crawling at the moment. In most cases not achieving milestones at the exact same time is not a reason for concern, as long as the child is hitting those important milestones within the allowed amount of time. For example if the child is 11 months old and has yet to start walking without the assistance of something it is perfectly normal as long as by 15 months they are attempting to walk without help. (Dept. of Health State of Florida, 2004)
During this developmental interview, I chose to conduct an observation/interview study with my one of my cousin’s child. This child is a 4 year old girl and will be identified as “child K” in relation to her first name. Her parents had no problem letting me interview her, but I had them stay in the same room as us. The purpose of this interview was to observe the child’s physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development. I observed her behavior and gave her several tests to show how well she has progressed.
Language skills Language skill is one of the milestone achievements of the first two years of life. Children are born with innate schema of communication, such as body language or facial expression to communicate with parents or caregiver. The acquisition of language starts from phonology, which is an important skill for a child to master where he or she is to absorb the sound and identify the sounds form one language to another. This was nurtured both at home and in school where Alexander has to absorb sounds from native (Cantonese) and foreign languages (English).
How does the environment affect a child’s brain growth and development? There are five areas of child development. These areas are cognitive which is thinking and learning, social/emotional, speech/language, fine motor skills, and gross motor skills. The environment influences a child’s development.
CDL Assignment Q3. How do nature and nurture interact with one another to determine the development of an individual? Discuss with specific reference to physical and motor development. The interaction between nature and nurture play an important role in determining the development of an individual as they are interrelated and it is a dynamic interplay between the genes and the external environment which begins at conception and continuous throughout one’s life due to the nature of adaptability and plasticity we as humans possess.
Human development happens continuously throughout ones lifespan as we develop and change. Genes exemplify biological factors in human development. Some biological factors are visible, for example skin tone and hair color. Some biological factors are unobserved, for instance genetic abnormalities and risks for diseases. From a biopsychosocial perspective what one becomes is the product of genes, or biological forces.
According to (King, 2008), child development involves in two theories which is nature and nurture. “The term nature refers to an organism’s biological inheritance. The term nurture refers to an organism’s environmental experiences”. The collaboration of nature and nurture, heredity and environment, influences every aspect of mind and behavior in child
However, each child is an individual and his/her physical, emotional, social development is either boosted or restricted by personal factors like genetic health or parentsâ€TM health etc.; and external factors such as the environment they grow up with. All factors have some kind of impact on a growing child and tend to affect all areas of development, not just one. Personal factor Personal factor influence childrenâ€TMs development in many areas. It consist health status, disability, sensory impairment and learning difficulties etc.. Childrenâ€TMs health is really important. Health issues can be genetical which influence how the brain works, e.g. Downâ€TMs syndrome which have impairment of cognitive ability and physical growth.
A major debate in the field of child cognitive development is whether certain aspects of development are learned or innate. It is a continuation of the classic dispute between the nature vs nurture elements of development. The chapter and articles delve into this debate with visual and auditory perception in children and provides empirical evidence towards whether or not infants are born with the ability to detect and distinguish these perceptions. There is a large consensus that perceptual functioning in children reaches adult like levels fairly quickly during the first year of development Siegler (2005).
Nature can loosely be defined as genetic inheritance and genetic makeup which a person inherits from their parents at the time of conception and carries throughout life. What makes nurture important is that it can change the genetic makeup and genetic inheritance that people inherited from their parents. In a recent study in the University of Manchester, Reinmar Hager and Jason Wolf at the Faculty of life Sciences together with their collaborator James Cheverud at St Louis have shown how maternal environment can affect how genes are expressed, influencing the body weight and growth of young mice, even if they are not related to their mother. They have thus revealed that environment may affect how genes are expressed. Focusing on genomic imprinting, the researchers had shown that the environment has had a strong effect on how imprinting influences body weight and growth in mice (Hawoth).
Nature and Nurture Influences on Child Development Karla White ECE 205: Introduction to Child Development Instructor: Alesia Lane October 2, 2017 Nature and Nurture Influences on Child Development Describe the relationship between nature versus nurture. The nature vs. nature debate is the scientific, cultural, and philosophical debate about whether human culture, behavior, and personality are caused primarily by nature or nurture. Nature is often defined in this debate as genetic or hormone-based behaviors. Our genes determine the different traits that we have, such as eye color, hair, ear size, height and other traits.
Temperament is defined by Martin (1994) as it refers to individual’s behavioural tendencies are existing early in life and are comparatively stable during growth and different situations. As it is also cited in (Bates, 1989; Goldsmith et al., 1987), that temperament is considered to be built in the biology of an organism. The above definition gives a clear explanation that a person’s temperament is the genetic built up, it is an innate component of their lives and it is constant throughout an individual’ life. According to Rothbart & Derryberry (2007) temperament is individual differences emotionally, in motor, and attentional reactivity gauged by the following processes; latency (time interval between the stimulation and response, or, from
