Psychologists have been studying behavior and human development for hundreds of years, John B. Watson considered the father of behavioral psychology began his studies in the 1900’s and psychologists till today have been continuing his work. In this research paper I will be writing about how the environment shapes the type of people we come become. How growing up without a parent affects your studies, or how being exposed to different events in your life shape the person you become. For better or worse, all events that transpire in ones life do have some sort of psychological effect; in this paper we will be exploring all of those possibilities. Take for example the Boston Bombing, where two young men placed bombs at the end of the Boston marathon, and detonated them as athletes were finishing. According to an article written in Psychology today by Dr. Dale Archer he speaks about the suspects were both seen as losers, and didn’t fit in within their own communities he went on to say “They want to be noticed, validated, and find a place in the world that will accept them”. Unfortunately Tamerlan and Dzhokar (suspected terrorists) felt accepted within a terrorist group. Tamerlan and Dzhokar are also prime examples of how incorrect socialization and parenting could have a negative effect on your childs development. Children experience the effects of social class in the context of school (Miller, Kohn, and Schooler 1986). According to Kohn and Schooler social location influences family processes through the effect of parents working conditions. In other words, take for example two mothers, Mother A has achieved a higher level of education than Mother B, Mother A has a high paying job and can afford to live in a better neighborhood... ... middle of paper ... ...t and being physically active then those youth who were raised in areas with poor recreational facilities. All in all the environment in which you are raised does have an affect on the person you become, it can be as serious as PTSD or as simple at the park in your neighborhood. Work Cited Holbrook PH.D, T. L., Galarnneau M.S., M. R., Dye, J. L., B.S.N, K. Q., & Dougherty M.P.H, A. L. Morpine use after combat injury in Iraq and Post traumatic stress disorder. the New England Journal of Medicine. Retrieved , from http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa0903326#t=articleResults Ph.D, D. A. (2013, April 21). Reading between the (Head)Lines. Psychology Today. Liat Korn and Gil Zukerman Journal of Religion and Health, Vol. 50, No. 4 (December 2011), pp. 911-921 Published by: Springer Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41349846
Besides race, the scholar also reveals how childhoods are unequal based on social class. Drawing from the American society, there are several social classes. For each class, there are unique pathways of lives followed and these usually influence both the educational and work outcomes. To ...
Social class, group of people who rank similarly in term of property, power, and prestige, separate people into different lifestyles and provide them with distinctive ways of looking at the world. It gives each individual 's different roles to perform and allow them onto different stages. Social class set people onto different path; it open opportunities to some, but close it from others. In the article, “Class Differences in Child-Rearing Are on the Rise” by Claire Cain Miller describes the impact of parents’ social class on raising a child. This article argues that families of different social classes supervise their child differently.
Ream, Robert K., and Gregory J. Palardy. "Reexamining Social Class Differences in the Availability and the Educational Utility of Parental Social Capital." American Educational Research Journal 45.2 (2008): 238-273. JSTOR. Web. 13 Nov. 2013.
The studies conducted in the article took into consideration two different socioeconomic statuses, which included social and economic aspects. A low socioeconomic status takes measures such as percentages of poor, percentages of people with the help of public aid, unemployment rate, and ethnicity composition; whereas a high socioeconomic status takes measures in percentage of college educated residents, income, and percentage of professionals in the neighborhood (Leventhal & Brooks-Dunn, 28). A family’s characteristics also play a role in a child’s and youth’s development. For example, the parents’ level of education or their race/ethnicity are factors that will affect the development of children.
Both Erik Erikson’s (1963) theory and Mary Ainsworth and John Bowlby (1973) theory support the idea that early life experiences impact the person across their lifespan. Both theories believe that personality begins to develop from a young age and therefore occurrences in early life can have lasting impacts on the developmental of an individual. An individual’s social and psychological development is significantly influenced by early life and childhood experiences. The experiences an individual has as a child impacts on the development of social skills, social behaviours, morals and values of an individual.
Social work has long recognized the relationship between the behavior of an individual and the environment in which the individual interacts (Hutchison, 2008). Human behavior theories offer a framework to organize, interpret and understand this relationship (Hutchison, 2008). For this case study, the following three theories will be examined for relevancy: Life cycle theory, role theory and resiliency theory.
The strong connection between living situations and the influences that can cause developmental issues in a child can cause great influences in the type of education that is received which is a great determining factor in the type of opportunities and future that will be achieved by a person.
Social class is a determinant used to define where a family stands in terms of salary and socioeconomic status. However, it is used to determine what will be offered to the family, for example, the type of school that each child will attend. But what it does not determine is the success of that student’s education attainment. Money can buy a college education yet, it will not buy literacy.
The Effects of Nature and Nurture on Shaping of Behavior The nature/nurture investigation has been studied for many years by psychologists and it is a subject that is still in debate today. It brings up the question, how is our behaviour shaped, and the two sides of the answer are nature and nurture. Behaviour in the context of a human being can be described as; the way humans act and think in situations. What is meant by nature and nurture?
Kids developing are originally shaped by their environment, which includes how their parents raised them to act along
Scientists and biologist have argued the Nature versus Nurture debate for decades. This debate is about the degree to which our environment and heredity, affects our behavior and developmental stages. According to this debate, nature can be described as, the behavior of a person is occurring because of their genetic makeup. Since the behavior of a person is due to their genetic makeup, then, it (nature) should also influence a person’s growth and development for the duration of their life. However, the nurture side of the debate says, the cause for an individual’s behavior is because of environmental factors. This would mean that the influence from our family (immediate and extended), friends and other individuals would mold our behavior. Ultimately, no one knows if nature or nurture affects behavior more; or if it is a combination of both nature and nurture dictating an individual’s behavior; or if neither nature nor nurture affects a person’s behavior. This paper will examine the nature versus nurture debate through the topics of violence, intelligence and economics, and sports.
Have you ever wondered why you are the way you are? What makes you brave or shy? For many years, psychologists have been discussing if your genetics or your surroundings are more important to determine personalities. The debate of nature versus nurture is an enduring controversy that has survived through the ages. Many experiments, studies, and discussions have attempted in vain to determine whether biology or environment can be attributed to the way a person has developed. There are two theories about human development that explain how heredity and environment affect an individual. Some people believe that this debate is not solved by one determining force but by a combination of the two. Both heredity and environment play
Development across the lifespan is one of the most interesting areas of psychology. The word development refers to human development which can be defined as “the scientific study of changes that occur in people as they age from conception until death.” (Ciccarelli, & White, 2009)Psychologists study this developmental change over time through several different methods. The book highlights three: Longitudinal design, cross-sectional design and cross-sequential design. Longitudinal design is a research design “in which one participant or group of participants is studied over a long period of time.” Cross sectional design differs from longitudinal design because cross-sectional designed research studies “several different age-groups of participants are studied at one particular time.” (Ciccarelli, & White)Cross-sequential designed research is a combination of the other two types; the cross-sequential research design studies participants by means of a cross-sequential design but they are also followed and assessed for a period of time no more than six years. A controversial topic associated with development across the lifespan is the theory of “Nature versus Nurture”. Nature versus nurture refers to the relationship between development and heredity and environmental factors. The answer lies on a spectrum between environmental factors and heredity. Psychologists on the environmental side are called empiricists. Empiricists believe that human development is fully influenced by a person’s environment. On the opposite side of the spectrum are the nativists. Nativists are psychologists that believe a person’s development is based completely on genetic factors. The facts are divided in relation to the two theor...
The Biological approach to personality places emphasis on the genetic influences related to the development of an individual’s personality. Some may believe that children and their parents can have very similar personalities, for example a young boy having his father’s anger (Stelmack, 1990). Though this approach has often been questioned by psychologists, it is not disregarded all together. Some believe that genetics do have a role in an individual’s personality development; however environments, as well as personal experiences all work in forming personality.
This book sets off with the ideas of 50 popular psychologists and comprises their development over a century in time. It explores and provides their crucial thoughts and insights into the personality, mind and human nature, bringing together their most influential concepts and theories collected.