These factors include socio-economic characteristics, such as, parental income, socio-economic status and parental education. Other factors include, parental behaviour and aspirations, the quality of pre-school and primary education, whilst the home learning environment has been shown to have the strongest impact on children’s development, counteracting some negative affects of social deprivation. This can be seen in some ethnic minority groups where, although social deprivation is high, children have a high education achievement rate. This can possibly be attributed to ethnic minority groups having high aspirations for their children, and through parents promoting an environment that is conducive to learning and positive development within the home. Other minority groups are similarly disadvantaged through childhood, including those with a disability.
Bowlby proposed that an internal working model (IWM) developed in childhood will determine or affect later adult relationships and how successful they are. Ainsworth’s strange situation helped develop three main types of attachment: secure, resistant and avoidant. Secure children develop a positive model of themselves and relationships as their primary caregiver was sensitive, emotionally responsive and supportive. Resistant children have parents who were inconsistent in their care giving, resulting in the child having a negative image of themself - often seeking attention but not finding comfort when they receive it. Avoidant children often have rejecting parents, which leads to them developing an internal model which makes them think they are unacceptable and unworthy.
Similarly Steinberg (1990) found that securely attached adolescents were more likely to maintain healthy relationships with their parents than those classified as dismissive or preoccupied. Attachment cannot account entirely for our adulthood; there are other risk factors that could influence our development. These include medical conditions such as aspergers and dramatic life events such as parental divorce or bereavement. Zimmerman (2000) assessed attachment in a longitudinal study by comparing the classification of 44 children aged 18 months and again at 16 years of age. Having also collected details of significant life events, he found securely attached children could become insecurely attached or vice versa, after experiences such as
Discuss the nature-nurture debate in relation to Demi Lovato Key principles Nature - is the inherited or innate characteristics, features or qualities of an individual. This side of the nature-nurture debate suggests that we are a certain way because of the genes we gain from our parents. Nurture - is how the surroundings on an individual affect them, e.g. their environmental influences and conditions. This side of the nature-nurture debate suggests that we are a certain way because of the way we were bought up and our life experiences.
For example in a child that’s aged between 2-3yrs will (in their social development): • Continue to enjoy the company of others • Wants to please and seek approval from adults • Is still very egocentric and very protective of own possessions; unable to share with other children unless requested by an adult and it wants to please the adult. • May find group experiences difficult due to egocentric behaviour • Uses language more effectively to communicate with others. All children will follow this sequence of development, however they may not all go through the sequence over the same timescale as another. This is where we look at the rate of development. Rate is defined as... “The speed with which something moves or happens.” So as already stated development happens in the same order amongst all children but it may not happen at the same rate.
At an early age boys tend to be more aggressive than girls, due to the ability to socialize being easier for girls than for boys thereby, creating gender difference in antisocial behavior. Also at an earlier age girls are more apt to show empathy and guilt than males. This difference may also include parenting and the way the parents respond to a difficult child, the mother being more empathetic to the child than the
The potential that one can reach in life is determined by the set of genes inherited from both parents. The factor that influences or discourages growth in those genes that make up his or her characteristics is the environment in which he or she
Would children continue to favor the more attractive informant even when they know that both informants were reliable in the past. I believe that kids regardless of ugly or cute would choose the person who they feel the most comfortable with or more familiar with just as with a new born coming into the world the people they are surrounded by they will be most comfortable with compared to a stranger trying to hold them they will cry because they are not familiar with them. 3. Another discussion is whether children would continue favoring the more attractive informant even when they have evidence that the more attractive informant is unreliable and the less attractive informant is a reliable informant. With this question i am unsure because i haven't herd of of any research going on with this so i dint believe i can have a(n) answer.
Parents may be able to designate the intelligence, athletic ability, musical talent, and even personality type of their children. The parents who are fortunate enough to be able to afford these reproductive techniques will be able to give their children an edge in becoming what is considered successful in our society. Success will become easier to obtain. It is feared that a form of super humans will be created that look down on those who are not genetically enhanced (Bionet par.3). There will be a new breed of people, those who are not genetically enhanced, who will be discriminated against.
The children of certain circumstances are even subject to easier treatment and diagnosis of ADHD if they live in a poor community because it is cheaper and easier to change a child then the learning environment. It has been shown that the conditions of poverty are ripe to lead children into a substantially higher risk category for behavioral disorders. Race merely plays a role in identifying at risk children because African Americans and Hispanics are three times more likely to live in poverty than their white counterparts. Education, special focus and sometimes when necessary treatment is vital to reversing this trend of poverty as these disorders have an