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Nature vs Nurture Debate Assignment
Nature vs Nurture Debate Assignment
1.Choose a life event for a child up to starting school. For example, you might discuss potty training; speaking in sentences; crawling; or navigating the driveway on a tricycle. Explore the interplay between the domains – biosocial, psychosocial and cognitive – as one develops through childhood.
2.
Discuss a developmental issue and/or social issue for infants, babies, toddlers or preschool children in another cultural setting. What conditions might account for the variation from the United States in this culture?
3.
Go back through the chapters so far. Choose one topic that was of special interest to you and discuss how you might conduct a study to explore this topic. Be sure to identify your hypothesis, independent and dependent variables (inherent in the hypothesis) and the method you might use (interview, questionnaire, observation, case study, etc.) to collect the data. You can pick nature vs nurture or parenting styles (authoritarian,permissive, authoritative) for this question.
Assignment Details
For this Assignment, you are going to write a paper explaining how you developed your theory through the four stages (theorizing, syntax, theory testing, and evaluation). Your paper must be 3 to 5 pages, not including the title and reference pages.
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Assignment Requirements
Before finalizing your work, you should:
- Minimum requirement of at least 5 sources of support
- be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as displayed above);
- consult the Grading Rubric (under the Course Resources) to make sure you have included everything necessary; and
- utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors.