physical, socio-emotional and cognitive development of a child. Give equal consideration to the following factors in your response: Heredity, Culture, Nutrition and Parental Affection.

There is no one factor that conclusively determines the process of child development. Psychologists have long been torn to deciding whether nature or nurture has as greater impact, and today we almost unanimously agree that both have as equal and strong an influence on the physical, socio-emotional and cognitive development of a child.

Take hereditary for instance: the fetus is formed by 456 chromosomes. 23 chromosomes from each of his parents. Since each of these chromosomes contain determining DNA that go into determining the child's physical, intellectual, and mental characteristics (some latent and others overt), it is evident that the child is formed by hereditary. This is particularly so when transmitted handicaps and diseases impact him to make her what she is. There is a distinction...
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