Child development experts have pondered upon the reasons for different attitude types within human beings. Are the reasons caused by nature (our genetic make up) or nurturing (the environment we are exposed to during infancy and adolescent years). The National Encyclopedia defines "emotion" as; "the state of both our minds and our bodies of subjective feelings, whether it be pleasurable or unpleasant but never neutral, that is accompanied by expressive behavior or posture and by physical changes" (1892).
             "Years ago, most experts believed that children grew unto adults according to a genetically programmed biological plan and that neither parents, teachers nor experiences along the way could alter the inevitable course of physical, mental, social, or emotional development. Then experts swung over to believing that the care-giving environment was the primary shaper of human development. Where, by whom and how a child was raised formed the individual ultimate direction in adulthood "(Gorski 1).
             In recent years, child development experts have embraced a third perspective, one that recognizes the ever-present relationship between the child's inborn temperament. "Temperament is the constitution of a substance, body, or organism with respect to the mixture or balance of its parts, elements, and qualitites: make-up" (Webster 1213) and the characteristics of the child's care-giving environment.
             Nature, nurture, or both is the argument. Childhood development experts believe that one of the three primarily influences the human emotional development process. To me, nurture is the obvious choice. Everyone has bloodcells, genes, and all the other bodily genetics. Not everyone was raised alike by his or her caregivers, nor were they raised in the same environment. Therefore...those elements alone could be a part of what makes each of us unique.
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