University Of Phoenix
Psy / 280
Week 3
Middle Childhood and Adolescence Paper
This paper will review middle childhood and adolescence relationships and how they will influence the future for children and young adults. First I will lay out life span perspectives and features that are visible. Secondly I will point out how heredity and the environment can alter human development and how it can affect a child’s development. Finally I will summarize key theories that are related to human growth and development and also identify key influential theorists who helped develop these theories.
Life span perspective According to (Berger, K. S., 2010) life span perspective is an approach to study of human development that takes into account all phases of life, not just childhood or adulthood. This means that what type a person a child becomes and grows to be in their lifespan we are constantly growing throughout our life. As we all know no two people on this earth are alike we all think and act differently and that’s what makes us unique This perspective is molded and formed via the environment, time, culture, psychological perspective, society and many other variants of a person 's life, and like DNA and there are never two people with identical life span perspective traits.
Environment and heredity This section we will review how the environment and heredity both influence or alter a person 's human development. Nature versus nurture, this debate within the academics of psychology and it has come to an end with both influences having a strong effect on a human’s development. What does that mean, to me it tells you that despite the perfect environment a person can still possess psychological issues throughout the person 's human development. And vice versa, despite the hereditary disorders one may or may not possess the environment can have as much of a psychological impact on a person 's psyche or human development that
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