1 Describe the naturenurture stagecontinuous and stabilitych

1. Describe the nature-nurture, stage-continuous, and stability-change dichotomy issues of developmental psychological theories.

Solution

Nature - Nurture

Nature is what we think of as pre-wiring and is influenced by genetic inheritance and other biological factors. Nurture is generally taken as the influence of external factors after conception e.g. the product of exposure, experience

When We talk about nature the focus is on the genetic , biological , neurochemical explanation of behaviour.

While in nurture every behaviour is learned from the surroundings through conditioning.

Psycoanalysis says that inate drives of sex and aggression is nature

while social upbringinwg during childhood is associated ith nurture .

nature needs freedom and this is how people learn from own spontaneous interactions with world

while in nurture is through parental/teacher instruction.

Ultimately not a dichotomy; both predispositions and environmental factors play a role.