Human Behavior And Human Development Essay

The reading begins with an introduction to what the study is about. The study is about trying dismiss the notion that solely your surroundings and experiences (nurture) or your genetics (nature) is solely the cause for you becoming the person you are today. It begins by explaining how the psychological world was very behavioristic during the later parts of the 20th century. Meaning, people assumed that their surroundings had a lot more influence on their lives, than the genes that they had. The reading also states that people are less likely to accept that they made a choice based on their genetics because it feels like a lack of

Kids that are raised by authoritative parents, meaning the parents who are demanding and responsive, tend to be self-reliant and socially competent. As we grow older, we develop decision making, self-awareness, relationship, self-management, etc. skills to adapt to the social environment. Some human traits such as having two eyes are the same in every environment while other traits are expressed in particular environment. The interaction between genetic traits and environment is called epigenetics. Most traits are influenced by a group of genes. From example, body weight is influenced by hereditary, but there is no specific genes that code for obesity. Many genes work together to orchestrate complex body function. For centuries scientist have been exploring the question, what makes us humans? Although the human DNA is 98.8 percent similar to that of chimpanzees, the small differences in DNA sequence is enough to separate us from chimps. Molecular mechanism influenced by environment can either trigger of block gene expression. The genes are self-regulating. Rather than producing the same result every time, they react and produce outcomes that led to survival and reproductive success. Among the three billion letters that make up human genome, only 15 million or less than 1 percent lay the difference that made us

Psychology is a topic that is full off theories, statics, ism's! Today we are going to look at Humanism VS. Behaviorism, but before we can look at these two, you must have a clear understanding of what psychology is. The best way I can describe psychology is the studying of the mind and behaviors, so that’s a pretty broad definition. Psychology can be broken down in to several aspects. As we take a closer look at psychology you will begin to see how the mind is connected to everything we do, I have heard people say there is" no rhyme or reason" someone does something, well psychology proves that statement to be incorrect. There is always an explanation for why people behave the way they do, or learn the way they do, process situations, and

I also agree that management has to be able to change and grow and continue to listen to any upward communication from the staff. In order to accomplish better communication, management should provide an ‘open-door’ policy and also informal meetings where employees can either feel free to go to their supervisors first with any questions or concerns and also raise issues with resources or basically anything that interferes with their job performance (Newstrom, 2014, p. 70).

John Locke’s “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding,” and David Hume’s “A Treatise of Human Nature” both discuss the ideas and thoughts they each have on personal identity. Normally when someone thinks of personal identity, they think of the distinct personality of a man or woman. Each person has their own personality.

Children go through periods of development as they move from infants to young adults. What occurs and when these developments take place are hereditary determined. However, environmental conditions and individuals within that environment influence how children benefits from each developmental event.

This perspective is contrasted by research evidence, however tests on identical twins suggest that environmental influences have a big effect on child development. Epigenetic studies have shown that “genes, though still important, have lost their privileged and prominent status, particularly as the distinction between nature and nurture disappears” (Keller, 2010). However, strong evidence is emerging to show that nature and nurture are interrelated in complex ways (Plomin, et.al,2013), and therefore they emerge together in the development of an individual

When it comes to the different development theories there is a significant amount that contribute to the helping and aiding of the human development process. Chapter 1 gives readers a clear and concise diagnostic of theories such as Behaviorism and Social Learning theory focusing on just the behaviorism and the Ecological Systems of theory. These two theories have played a role in many different instances throughout my friend Aliyah’s life. Aliyah has continuously moved back from Jamaica to the United States throughout her younger years. She participated in first, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade in Jamaica with her grandmother and two aunts. Aliyah’s second grade year was spent in Orlando, but third grade happened in Georgia. She came back her ninth grade year to Orlando and has been in Florida ever since, currently a sophomore at the University of Florida.

An individual’s physical features can be identified as identical to the one that resembles his or her parents. The resemblance may feature the individual’s eyes from one of the parents. However, it is important to note that the personality and the talents of the individual may not be identical from the parents. This means that the environment in which the individual grew up may play part in the individual to have the talent or the personality. I believe that our behaviors are influenced by the environment that surrounds us. This because as the cultural aspects are changing, so as our behaviors changes too (Gander, 2003). It is important to note that the coding of the genes in each of the cell in the human beings is determined by the different

Increasingly, people are beginning to realize that asking how much heredity or environment influence a particular trait is not the right approach. The reality is that there is not a simple way to disentangle the multitude of forces that exist. These influences include genetic factors that interact with one another, environmental factors that interact such as social experiences and overall culture, as well as how both hereditary and environmental influences intermingle. Instead, many researchers today are interested in seeing how genes modulate environmental influences and vice versa

The following will analyse the Psychodynamic theory founded by Sigmund Freud. It will focus on the components of the ‘mind’ including the Conscious, the pre-conscious proper and the Unconscious. Examining his structure of Personality with reference to The’ Id’, ‘Ego’ and ‘Super-ego’. It will discuss Freud’s proposal of stages within his ‘psychosexual development’. It will then focus on Carl Rogers Humanistic theory, explaining his concept of the ‘Actualizing tendency’ and incorporating his creations of ‘Self concept’, the ‘Organismic self’ and the ‘Ideal self’. As a contribution to Roger’s work also highlighting Abraham Maslow’s ‘Hierarchy of needs’. Freud and Rogers will then

Human development is the biological, psychological, and social process that a human being must go through to reach full maturity. It defines who we are and how we interact with and view the environment around us. Understanding human development and how it affects an individual is an essential theme in human services. Understanding the bio-psycho-social dimensions of human development, having cultural competency, and comprehending the general systems theory and how it works are all important parts of being an effective human service

The humans as a whole lead evidently different lives comparing to those of the other animals, considering the fact that a few rearrangements of human genome can result in a dolphin. Despite of this genetic resemblance, there are certain traits that clearly differentiate human from the rest, and this so-called human nature has been one of the favorite topics discussed among people, since ‘self’ has been one of the most interesting topics of all time for anyone. Of course, there is no one characteristic that single-handedly defines what it means to be a human, and there are many of them that constitute human nature, some of which everyone can agree and others not so much. Some of these characteristic could be observed in the documentary film

“Repression occurred where there was a conflict between opposing wishes and desires” (Collins and Makowsky, 2010, pg. 132). Repression is one of Freud’s many theories to try and explain humans’ actions and behaviors. He supposed that through operant conditioning, people have learned how to act in ways that society would consider as appropriate. Not only that, the father of psychology wrote the theory of personality development and the theories of aggression that have help sociologists understand the contemporary humans’ social behavior, on topics such as violence and social life. So is violence [aggression] is innate in us? In this essay, I will try to answer the following questions: what is Sigmund Freud’s relevance to sociology, how can his observations and theories illuminate contemporary social behavior, and how does his essay Civilization and its discontents (1930) speak to modern debates on violence and social life.

Clearly, the relationship between heredity and environment is far from simple. As a consequence, developmental psychologists typically take an "interactionist" position on the nature-nurture issue, suggesting that a combination of heredity and environmental factors influence development. Developmental psychologists face the challenge of identifying the relative strength of each of these influences on the individual, as well as that of identifying the specific changes that occur over the course of development.