Goodness Of Fit Theory: A Case Study

Nature versus Nurture is a common topic when discussing one’s personal development while growing up. Children are often affected by how their families treat them and teach them their values and judgements. This sometimes changes the children’s personalities and manners. Because of that the way they’re brought up can also often impact the choices they make in their future lives. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee illustrates how children are influenced by their families using the Finch and the Ewell families. Personally, my family has also greatly impacted my life and personality growing up.

The nature vs nurture issue has been a controversial argument among psychologist for decades. This argument exposes two different views. One of them emphasizes that our personality depends solely on genetics (nature). On the other hand, the second view suggests that humans “develop through experience” (Myers 2013, SG 6) (nurture).

We learned that the child temperament is not only a result from environment (nurture), but also heredity (nature). The parenting style of Suzy’s parents would be an example of

Temperament can be described as the natural mood disposition determined by genetics and biological influences and offer important clues about criminal behavior (Bartol & Bartol, 2011). Bartol and Bartol (2011) explain this with a real life example of how we approach our social environment and influences how the environment will interact back with us. This theory blossoms in correlation to a child’s up bringing and can be used to determine a child’s behavior later in life. The social environment can be created with a child’s involvement with their parents and their styles and boundaries growing up. So a parents approach to responding to a child’s behavior, nurturance and warmth will critically determine the parent-child relationship and may lead to more positive behaviors. Unfortunately, parental styles vary throughout all households and may predetermine a child’s temperament whether it be positive or negative. Children who display negative behaviors, low adaptability, and have high intensity are more likely to be antisocial later in life, which in

One of the main, and most controversial topics discussed in a child’s development is, nature vs. nurture. Nature pertains to genetic influences that a child has inherited from their parents, such as traits, abilities, and capacities. For instance, what color eyes the child may have, how athletic they may be, and even their brain development. Whereas nurture, refers to the environment the child is raised in and how this shapes their behaviors. Such factors can include, the family’s socio-economic status, schooling, parental discipline, as well as whether the child is provided with enough resources. When it comes to nature or nurture having a stronger influence then the other, the answer is both, nature and nurture, influence the outcome of the child. This idea that both nature and nurture, play a part in how the child will develop, is known as the nature-nurture continuum.

Nurture is much more important than nature in shaping a person’s personality. When a child is only months old, it already begins to attach and develop personality traits that are similar to their caregiver. Babies can recognise when their parent is gone, and will learn ways to make them come back, such as crying and screaming. Humans are very cognitive, and will learn throughout all stages of life. Undoubtedly, nature is the dominant factor in a child’s development because children are impressionable and conform to their surroundings, humans tend to learn from their surroundings, and infants require a parental figure to attach to in order to develop.

Instead, it is a complex interplay between the two, driven to a significant extent by the multidirectional transactions of infants or children, and parents and other caregivers"(as cited in Sparrow, 2013, p. 180). While heredity will affect my child development the environment, he is surrounded by will also contribute to his development. As stated in the scenario, the family is having some financial problem. Socio-economic status of a family can affect the child. If parents are worried about money and are constantly stressed and working to put food on the table, the child development will be affected (Berk, 2014, p.61). Being a shy and a cautious person; my environment is usually quiet and secluded from others; this will affect Andrew character and

These researchers have concluded that there is a strong correlation between the environment and the social behaviors and mental behaviors of a human being in the future. The most critical of these time periods are the childhood of the child and the social groups that the person has been emerged around in the adolescent ages. One of the most widely used studies is the Twin Study where two twins with a very similar genetic makeup are raised in different environments to see how much change there is in their behavior. These twins almost share 100% of their genes however, it has been shown that the only behavior that has been affected is their personality. Yet the personality has been observed to be different by 54% compared between twins who are raised in different environments (DANIEL GOLEMAN 1986). Showing that nurture is a lot more in control of how one acts and how they are more influenced by their environment. It becomes dangerous when one’s environment can begin to affect their behavior, as they can stray for the worst and make situations like past serial killers come true. Personality being affected by the environment can not be prevented, however, the type of environment that will influence future personalities can be changed and made for the better. They can be improved upon to prevent any future serial killers from being

A kid’s daily life determines their personality, and how much like to be in the center. For example, Johnny has never been to

As a parent, it is important to understand a child’s temperament so that an adaptive parenting style can be used. For example, if a child is characterized by a difficult temperament, he or she will be moody and be resistant to new experiences (Shaffer et al., 2010, p.445). For parents, this can be a frustrating situation that results in them becoming “irritable, impatient and punitive” (Shaffer et al., 2010, p.445). Due to the frustration, parents will enforce techniques that negatively impact their child. Therefore, it is important to understand the tendencies and the temperament of a child so that an optimal environment that fosters development can be created. Furthermore, if the temperament of a child is understood an effective punishing and nurturing strategy can be implemented. By doing so, the stresses of parenting can be alleviated as the child will respond positively to the caregiver and the caregiver will not

The parents that the child is surrounded by everyday also determines what a child’s character would be. “So it is with parents and children: one person’s behavior toward one another has consequences for the quality of the relationship between them. Over the course of a lifetime the balance of power shifts, and children, complete with memories of how they were treated, have a growing say in their dealing with their parents... Parents should treat their children well to allow them to grow up with such memories” (Pinker). The mind will obtain information from the environment that substantially determines the type of person they would be when they grow up.

When we look at the science of human development, the main consideration is how people change over time. In the age old question of nature versus nurture, there are some that believe the characteristics and traits within us are innate, meaning we are born with them. Still others feel that nurturing, our environmental influences like friends, community, schools, media and even parents affect who we are. This is a false dichotomy, it is not which-but how much of each because both play crucial roles in our development (Berger 2015).

As many people have begun to pay attention to formation of personality, the debate over nature vs. nurture has raged for a long time and this issue is still controversial. However, as shown the

In our society, a lot of key factors of a child’s development are solely based on what they see, and who they’re around. School, dominating more than half the child’s day, serves as the leader in beneficial development. The remainder of the day is left for watching tv, staring at trees, or brooding around, counting the minutes until the next excitement-filled school day. A lot of people believe that during this “down” time of there is ample room for personality building; benefits that will not only help the child in school, but build them into a strong willed, confident

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