01:830:331 Study Guide - Zygote, Twin, Dazed
30 Oct 2014
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Nature - an organism s inborn, biological inheritance is most important. Nurture - an organism s physical and social environment is most important. Jean-marc itard (physician) tested the theory that social environment shapes a child s development. Never learned how to interact or speak normally. Socioeconomic status (ses): grouping people with similar occupational, educational, and economic characteristics; implies inequalities. Theory - an orderly, integrated, evidence-based set of statements that. Poverty in the first few years of life is a better predictor of school completion and achievement than poverty in adolescence. Biological maturational view discontinuity; nature over nurture. Psychoanalytic perspectives children move through a series of stages in which they confront conflicts between biological drives and social expectations. Development is unconscious and driven by emotion. Psychosexual freud emphasizes how parents manage their child s sexual and aggressive drives in the first few years is crucial for healthy personality development.
