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Due Week 1 Day 4
Discuss the impact of nature and nurture on development. In life span
development one of the major development issues is nature-nurture. What is this
issue and why is it important to the study of human life span development?
Some think that nature is believed to be what determines our personalities, looks, and other
things because it's all genetically passed down. Others think that nurture, or our environment, is
the cause to our behavior as well as characteristics. This issue is important to the study of life
span development because when we study a human being, we should know what or where the
characteristics came my from.
In personal opinion, I think that nurture is more influential to our behavior and personalities
compared to our nature. I know that today I am not the same person that I was five years ago.
My environment changed dramatically, and so did my looks, personality and total outlook.
Although I now have the same attitude that I had as a high school girl, when I made the decision
to do what I did after high school, everything changed. My attitude, stress levels, looks and
environment all changed together. As I got myself out of that situation my entire life changed
again. I went from being a controlled, low self-esteem, depressed, anxious and angry person to
an independent, outgoing, outspoken, self-reliant individual who now knows that I can do
whatever I put my mind to.
Another reason that I say that our environment has more of an impact on us is because I think
of those who have had a traumatic event happen that changed their whole lives. I know many
people who have been in car accidents, had surgeries that did not turn out so well, or have
gotten burned in a fire etc....who have had a total change in appearance, attitude and
personality. It all makes sense that as our environment and circumstances change, we tend to
change along with it.