HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Impact of culture and environment on Human development

Impact of culture and environment on Human development

Introduction

In the history of the evolution of human development is a principle of self-regulation and self-production of artificial environments and this should be explained in terms of the extent to which influences or is a prerequisite for human development. All this complemented by the ability of language itself, creativity, willingness to cooperate and solidarity work with tools. The social shaping of men just influencing their own evolution as a species, the social is part of human nature. Wilson likewise shows that the second step of man's cultural expansion was based on hunting. Culture is the human personality that forms allowing the man to survive and develop.

However, from birth, through the whole course of life in our body there are extremely complex changes in physical and mental functioning. Human development is in fact conditioned by many factors - genetic, physiological maturation associated with the body and brain, psychological, environmental. Especially during infancy and childhood are changing very fast and cover different areas of human activity: motor activity, emotion, cognitive processes.

Physical and psychological changes that occur during the processes and stages of development are under investigation by a separate branch of psychology called developmental psychology. It deals with the study of human development in all its aspects. In this paper I will present the main concepts and models of development in particular cognitive, emotional and social that has been formulated to date on the basis of developmental psychology (Cosmides, & Tooby, 1987).

Discussion

However, for a long time in the science of psychology the basis for theoretical analysis of the individual development a separate phenomenon than that the culture and environment play a pivotal role. On the contrary, human being is a product of nature and society. Throughout, their life human being has feeling the effects of an extensive set of social factors, which are defined as the social environment. Therefore, the psychology and behavior of the individual cannot be understood without ties (relationships) with other people. The debate on the question of whom or what is responsible for human action was very extreme and ideologically from some evolutionary biologists led to the social psychologists and philosophers. Most have said that the environmental and cultural impact plays an important role in human development. Even human bodies are only containers for virtually replicating genetic structure. Such deterministic views were also the occasion for the decoding of the human genome. The hope that was behind it was to heal, repair of the defective genes or to alter disease-specific characteristics of people. Since, then has increasingly shown that the environment plays an enormous role. This is already in monogenic diseases, i.e. diseases that are determined by a gene defect localized exactly. The phenotypic course which is the individual characteristics of the disease, with the same causes varies and depends crucially on the particular environment (Armitage, & Christian, 2004).

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