nurture strongly influences early human development1

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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Name Huang (Surname) Bin(Andrew) (Other Names) ID Number 08114315
Programme English
Module Title English 1(for science and business)
Module Code EN0021A
Assignment Title Nurture strongly influences early human development
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24october 2008 at 20:00
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Nurture strongly influences early human
development
Nurture or nature, which is more important for the development of human has been debated for hundreds of years.Different people have different opinions.A lot of scientists have applied themselves to this.After a long time,it has been proved that nurture has the biggest influence on human development.
John B. Watson and B.F skinner argued that human nature is completely malleable:early training can turn a child into any kind of adult,regardless of his or her heredity. (line 26~29)Watson stated the argument in its most extreme form:give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to being them up
in,and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train any one to be any type of specialist I might select doctor, lawyer,artist,merchant-chief or beggar-man and thief.(line 33~41). So it prove that nurture such as training has strongly influences for people.
Abnormal uterine environment can affect maturation process.For example ,if mother contracts German measles.The human fetus develops within the mother's body according to a fairly fixed time schedule, and fetal behaviour, such as turning and kicking,also follows an orderly sequence that depends on the stage of growth.(77~83) Motor development after birth also illustrates the interaction between genetically programmed maturation and environmental influence. Virtually all children go through the same sequence of motor behaviours in the same order:rolling over, sitting without support, standing while holding onto furniture,crawling, and then walking.But children go through the sequence at different rates,and developmental psychologists began very early in the history of the discipline to ask whether learning and experience play an important role in such differences.(line 102~116).
More recent studies indicate that practice or extra stimulation can accelerate the appearance of motor behaviours to some extent. For example, new born infants have a stepping reflex; if they are held in an upright position with their feet touching a solid surface, their legs will make stepping movement that are similar to walking.
So ,according to the facts and theoretics, we have no doubt to believe that nurture is more important. Even though nature is also play an important role, but what determine the course of human development is nurture.
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Write by Huang Bin
Date : 2008/10/24。