This document discusses three major issues in human development: nature vs nurture, continuity vs discontinuity, and stability vs change. Nature refers to genetic and biological influences, while nurture is environmental factors after birth like experiences and learning. Continuity views development as gradual and cumulative, while discontinuity sees it occurring in distinct stages. Stability suggests personality is set in childhood, but change recognizes modification through social experiences over time.

1. Prepared by:
CYNDY A. BELARMINO

2. INTRODUCTION
-Each of us has his/her own informal 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 other's.

3. There are three major Issues on Human
Development
• Nature versus Nurture
• Continuity versus Discontinuity
• Stability versus Change

4. WHAT IS A NATURE IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Nature is what we think of as pre-wiring and is
influenced by genetic inheritance and other
biological factors.

5. WHAT IS A NURTURE IN HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT
• Nurture is generally taken as the influence of
external factors after conception, the product of
exposure, life experiences and learning on an
individual human.

6. COMPARISSON BETWEEN NATURE VERSUS
NURTURE
• NATURE
genes or heredity factor
physical appearance
personality characteristics
• NURTURE
environmental variables
childhood experience
how we were raised
social relationship
sorrounding cultures

7. NATURE VERSUS NURTURE

8. WHAT IS THE CONTINUITY IN HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT
• Continuity view say that development is a
continuous process that is gradual and cumulative.
• For example, a child learns to crawl, and then to
stand and then to walk. They are gradually
learning how to walk. It's just like hiking up the
mountain path: a slow, steady ascent that leads to
the top.

9. WHAT IS DISCONTINUITY IN HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT
• Discontinuity view of development believes that people pass
through stages of life that are qualitatively different from each
other.
• For example, children go from only being able to think in very
literal terms to being able to think abstractly. They have moved
into the 'abstract thinking' phase of their lives. As you can
imagine, discontinuous development is like walking up the stairs: a
series of stages, or steps, that get you to the top of the
mountain.

10. • CONTINUITY
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• DISCONTINUITY

11. STABILITY VERSUS CHANGE
• STABILITY
 The belief that personality traits
developed in the first 5years
predict adult personality
 Some aspects of temperament,
such as energy level and
outgoingness, seem relatively
stable
• CHANGE
 Personalities are modified
through interactions with family,
experience at school and
acculturation.
 Socia attitudes usually change a
great deal form childhood to
adulthood

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