Issues in Development

It is really great that a child is developing. We all want our children to develop as they should so they can become the best people that they can be. However, with development, there are possible issues that can occur. There are three issues that can occur with development:

• Nature-Nurture Issue
• Continuity-Discontinuity Issue
• Early-Late experience Issue

Nature-Nurture Issue: It is to be determined if development is influenced by nature or nurture.  Nature refers to an organism's biological inheritance, nurture refers to environmental experiences. No one really knows if development is explained by nature or nurture. It has been claimed that both nature and nurture have a heavy influence on development. 

Continuity-Discontinuity: It is to be determined if development involves gradual cumulative change (continuity) or distinct changes (discontinuity). In other words, it has to be determined if development is done continuously or does it just have certain stages that it occurs. 

Early-Late Experience Issue: The focus is to see to a certain degree if early experiences(infancy) or later experiences are the key to the child's development. 

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Source: Santrock, J. W. (2019). Children. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.