Human development and growth:

Critical thinking activity: language development: nature, nurture, or interaction?

1) Accommodations produce significant intellectual growth.
2) Thoughts influence emotions and actions culture affects every action, indeed every thought.
3) Genes affect every aspect of behavior.
Epigenetic referring to the effects of our environment, it forces an expression of our individual
genetic inheritance.
Eye Balance Life
E.B.L. Eye Balance Life
Nature vs. Nurture or interaction: Causes and effects... At a thoughts very beginning,
Its first movement, its first motion, (In it, our thought) it, requires a good mixing of lifes, yin &
yang. Our Nature vs. Nurture & our interaction there of we decide, Right?
Ying vs. Yang = &/OR Nature vs. Nurture
Our genes and our environment affect every characteristic. Thus, Nature always affects, Nurture
and Nurture always affects Nature Causing us to interact Positively or negatively U decide
Because of life, having its constant, (change) we too must learn to adapt and change with our
environment.
In operant condition an action is preformed and a response must occur.
Reinforcement conditioning is a technique used for conditioning a behavior, in which that behavior is
followed by a desired behavior, (a.k.a.) a positive response.
In finding and obtaining a balance thought, one must be accepting of ones choices, one makes.
Thus allowing both sides there predetermined amount/equal share, of each aspect, of the issue
I see both sides equally and understand each objective.
Allowing balance to do its part
Ewe can too, it is up to you.
Taber T. Fellows
Monday,May 26 2014
Human development and growth assignment.docx
Human development CH 2
Psychology 1100
Monday, May 19, 2014
Answers By Taber Fellows

Major developmental theories: discover your bias.

Most students come to class with Dave highest or predisposition towards one or more of the five basic
developmental theories. Answer the following questions to see whether you can discern a pattern in your
responses that might indicate a bias towards one, or another. In the check more than one answer is both reflect
your opinion.

1.) The father of a two-year-old finds that he becomes very impatient with his daughter when, night after
night, she claims she cannot fall asleep because of a "monster that comes out in the dark." Although each night the
father tries to reassure and confirm his daughter, the next morning she does not remember his attempts to reason
with her regarding her fear. He should probably?
_______ a.) Try to understand the hidden causes and the of his daughter's dreams.
_______ b.) Give his daughter a reward for the following morning if she stayed in bed until falling asleep
the night before.
_______ c.) Realize that, because of her limited intellectual abilities at the age of two, she cannot be
rationally reason with.
___D____ d.) Consider how he can structure his interactions with his daughter to "mentor" her through
her fears.

2.) Most adults become physiologically aroused when they hear the sound of a baby's cry. This is because?
_____ a.) The babies cry you folks unconscious memories of their own painful childhood.
____B_ b.) At some time during their past, the sound of a baby crying became associated with another
stimulus that naturally elicited physiological arousal.
_____ c.) They consciously became irritated by the distracting sound.
_____ d.) Nurturing young babies is a developmental challenge that all humans face and address in
culture-specific ways.

3.) A pre-teenage boy is not interested in having sexual experiences. The most reasonable explanation is that?
_____ a.) He feels threatened; he is defined by his true feelings, possibly without realizing what they are.
_____ b.) He has probably had anxiety- producing experiences with sex and wants to avoid any repetition
of these experiences.
_____ c.) His ideas and values make sexual experiences seem wrong or inappropriate for him right now.
__D___ d.) His social, or cultural, background has not yet fostered such interests.

4.) Nine-year-old David is more aggressive in the classroom than Maria is. His teacher should probably?
_____ a.) Referred David to a therapist can get you to talk about his repressed urges.
_____ b.) Give him stars and privileges whenever he behaves appropriately.
__C___ c.) Find out why she is not concentrating on the material; to begin with, have his vision, hearing
and other pre-sexual abilities tested.
_____ d.) Realize that David's past social interactions have not challenged him to develop certain social
competencies.

5.) Advertisers often incorporates start quote babyishness" in their promotional symbols because?
_____ a.) Most adults have hidden consummators urges stemming from their childhoods.
_____ b.) People are conditioned to act impulsively (and, perhaps, spend money) around children.
_____ c.) They are afraid of making their sales pitches to intellectually complex for the average consumer.
___D___d.) People in most cultures are socialized to respond favorably to babies.

Human Development and Growth Name: Taber T. Fellows

Critical Thinking Activity: Language Development: Nature, Nurture, or Interaction?
Historically, many theories of development have pitted biology (nature) against environment
(nurture). For example, attempts to explain the ease with which babies acquire language focused either
on the ways in which parents teach language to their children or on the emergence of the infants innate
language abilities. Behaviorist B. F. Skinner, arguing from the nurture position, believed that language
development could be explained entirely by principles of learning, including imitation, reinforcement,
and discrimination. Arguing from the nature position, linguist Noam Chomsky maintained that language
is far too complex to be mastered so early and so easily through learning alone. Instead, Chomsky
maintained that our language capacity is inborn.
More recently, develop mentalists have concluded that both Skinners and Chomskys theories have
some validity but that neither is completely correct; rather, it is the interaction of nature and nurture
within a specific social context that accounts for the ease with which children acquire language. In this
exercise, review the following examples of language use and decide whether each provides evidence of
the impact of nature, nurture, or the interaction of nature and nurture in language development.
Explain your reasoning.
Write on this assignment if you need more room use the back of the paper.

1. Whenever 8-month-old Juan wants his mother, he calls out, Mama, and she comes running.
Consequently, Juan utters Mama much more frequently now than he did at 7 months of age. Using
only the information presented here, is this evidence of Nature? Nurture? Interaction? Support your
position. Juans Nature begins to learn through Nurture; the more calls for his mother the more interaction he
gets.

2. Even in her very first sentences, 21-month-old Melissa has obviously figured out the basics of subject
/predicate word order. Seeing her mother returning from work, for example, she says, Mommy home,
rather than home Mommy. Using only the information presented here, is this evidence of Nature?
Nurture? Interaction? Support your position. Melissa learns proper language thru Nature, and her Genes
guide her instincts and she presents proper word usage.

3. Seven-month-old Tara, who is deaf, has begun to babble manually with her hands at about the same
time hearing infants begin babbling orally. Using only the information presented here, is this evidence
of Nature? Nurture? Interaction? Support your position. : Nature: Environment influences learning and it
aids in the final stage of Nurturing, as we live through our Interactions and their experiences.

4. When Michelle was an infant, she was able to perceive differences among the spoken sounds of
many languages. As she grew, her preference for hearing her native language actually influenced the
development of her brain. Now a teenager, Michelle can no longer perceive certain speech sounds from
languages other than her own. Using only the information presented here, is this evidence of Nature?
Nurture? Interaction? Support your position. Michelle, is showing that her environment / Nurture has less
priority than her Nature / Genes resulting in her language of choice to be her main language









SUMMER 2014 - PSY 1100 - 009 Human Growth & Development



M / F 5:300 -7:50p ROOM - HTC 237



DATE READING LIST


June 16 Orientation & CH 1


June 20 CH 2





June 23 CH 3



June 27 CH 4






June 30 TEST CH 1-4 / Start CH 5


July 4 HOLIDAY!!!







July 7 CH 6




July 11 CH 7







July 14 CH 8




July 18 TEST CH 5-8 / Start CH 9




July 21 CH 10 & 11



July 25 CH 13 & (12 ??)







July 28 TEST CH 9,10,11 & 13


Aug 1 CH 14







Aug 4 CH 15




Aug 8 CH 16 & FINAL!!!!