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"Nurture strongly influences early human development". Discuss.


Vivian ice 1 / -  
Oct 19, 2010   #1
Today most people believe that nature and nurture influence human development together. Newborn infants enter the world with all sensory systems functioning and are well prepared to learn about their new environment. Newborn infants have some innate abilities when they were born. But these abilities are not enough to adapt a new environment. So they have to learn many skills and capacities about their environment. This essay will discuss nature and nurture which stronger influences early human development.

Nature plays important role in early human development. A remarkable number of personal characteristics are already determined by the genetic structure of the fertilized ovum. Our genes program our growing cells so that we develop into a person rather than a fish or chimpanzee. They decide our sex, the color of our skin, eyes, and hair and general body size, among other things. These genetic determinants are expressed in development through the process of maturation-innately determined sequences of growth and change that are relatively independent of environmental events. (Text 2-1, lines 50-60) For example, the infants may be born congenital heart disease or color-blindness, these diseases will company with their life, and it is hard to change after they were born. Newborn infants can distinguish sounds of the human voice from other kinds of sounds, and they can distinguish between some speech sounds better than adults. Newborn infants also can discriminate differences in taste and among odors shortly after birth. All of these are nature, the nature includes many things, such as intelligence, age at which children begin to talk, your ethnicity, when children start to walk.

However, the nurture is stronger than nature in early human development. The mind of a newborn infant is a 'blank slate'. What gets written on this slate is what the baby experiences - what he or she sees, hears, tastes, smells and feels. During they grown up, different infants will become different persons. Newborn infants educated in school and learn skills about living. They try to improve their knowledge and self-cultivation. There are many things depend on nurture, such as beliefs about right and wrong, emotions like fear, happiness, and sadness, taste in fashion, personality traits, some habits or addictions, the type of person someone marry, among other things. And acquired studies decide whether or not you will be successful. For example, if the mother contracts German measles during the first three months of pregnancy, the infants may be born deaf, blind or brain-damaged, depending on which organ system was in a critical stage of development at the time of infection. Maternal malnutrition, smoking, and consumption of alcohol and drugs are among the other environmental factors that can affect the normal maturation of the fetus.(Text 2-1,lines 69-80 ) And a newborn infant is disability but not means he or she will fail in life, he or she could keep up studying and overcome difficult. A number of people did and achieved great success in life. So nurture strongly influences early human development.

In conclusion, nature and nurture are both important in early human development. Nature gives human born abilities and nurture help human to develop the abilities. Nature gives innate things to human that people are almost the same when they were born. But nurture could change many things later. So nurture stronger than nature influences early human development.
Irrational 6 / 13  
Oct 20, 2010   #2
Hello vivian,

let me give you some first thoughts.

Today, most

have some innate abilities when they are born.

not good/advanced/... enough

So they have to acquire many skills and capacities learn about their environment.

This essay will discuss whether nurture stronger influences early human development stronger than nature.

Nature plays an important role in early human development.

into a person human-being rather than instead of a fish or chimpanzee

For example, the infants may be born congenital heart disease or color-blindness. These diseases will ac company with their life them their wohle life., and it is hard to change after they were born.
wsyzoscar 1 / 2  
Nov 4, 2010   #3
Nurture strongly influences early human development

Both nurture and nature can influence early human development. The innate factor depends on the nature while the acquired factor's development mostly depend on the nurture.

The innate factor might has been determined when a child is still been a foetus, the heredity plays an important part in that. Such as human race, colour of skin and hair, may be your color of eyes. Parents give their baby their own gene, it is the reason why the baby look like their parents. The nature influences are just like the gift from parents.The newborn have the more sensitive senses, For example, the newborn's hearing, taste and smell sometimes may be better than the adult.

The nurture also has a strongly influences on early human development.The nurture influence includes many parts, such as education, the culture and traditions, sometime maybe the diet. All knowledge comes to us through our senses,such as watching and hearing. Human have a very powerful learning ability, and human can learn from many thing, and according to many different ways, the society can strongly influence early human development, especially during the childhood.

It is widely believed that intelligence quotient depends on the innate factor, but in fact, it can improve by means of acquire. For example, many people think math success depends largely on natural talent or ability, but the experts say it also depends on the student's effort. Learning ability is the same as studying math. Accordingly, human must try hard to acquire as much knowledge as they can to make them better, and know more things. There is a old story in China. A boy had an excellent talent for literature, and it appeared when the boy was just five years old. However the boy's was not allowed to go to school, and his father let the boy write poems or articles for money. Finally, the boy's excellent talent has been gone, and the boy become a mediocrity.

In conclusion, there is no doubt that the nurture strongly influences early human development, while the nature just has a little influence an early human development, but it is also important to human. A normal innate factor and a better environment can make a child develop smoothly.
riny 13 / 26  
Nov 5, 2010   #4
The innate factor might hashave been determined

The newborn have the more sensitive senses

the newborn's hearing, taste and smell sometimes may be better than the adult.
it may not true...

it can be improved by means of acquire

There is an old story

Good essay struction, good examle and vocabulary ;)


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