How do cultural values, practices, and economic conditions affect lifespan development?
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Explain how cultural values, practices, and economic conditions affect lifespan development?
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Practices and economic conditions which effect lifespan development is examined.
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Human development is a fairly complex process that has many different influential factors. The ones you've listed are mostly those which would play to the nurture, or environmental, influences in development.
Cultural values and practices will form the basis of morals, values and beliefs of what is right vs. wrong, what is the appropriate manner in dealing with certain situations versus others. For example, different ethnic backgrounds have different methods of parenting, and the culture of parenting will ultimately influence what a parent would do when a child is, say for example, throwing a temper tantrum. Keep in mind, ethnic cultural practices are not the only cultural values - cultural input from the immediate environment a person exists in plays a role too. One of the more interesting things to look at is the clash ...
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