Environment Affecting Behavior

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A person's character is distinguished by the features that make up and identify an individual. This is what sets a person aside from everyone else. A person's character and the way a person behaves can be greatly influenced by their surroundings. Behavior is a learning process that begins at birth. A person reacts to what is happening around them; the way a person responds to a situation derives from their character.
An environment with complexity, mystery, legibility, and coherence is the type of environment a person will seek. Providing a person with this type of environment will allow the person to feel comfortable, and the person will want to be involved in what is going on around him/her. In this environment, the person will want to learn and will want to experience new things that are around him/her.
Comfortable atmospheres increase a person’s well being and improve a person’s behavior. Once a person learns what is comfortable, the person will be able to deal rationally with problems that come about. According to Carl Jung, the personalities of parents are a major influence on a child. Providing a child with enough love, guidance and attention surrounds a child with a stable and beneficial atmosphere allowing the child to grow and learn for him/herself what life is about. For example, comparing a baby who grows up with his/her biological parents would be the same as a baby growing up with adoptive parents, both can provide the same care. A parent is someone who brings up and provides care for another. No matter who the child grows up with, if provided the same care, “even children who grow up with their biological parents resemble their parents in personality on to a moderate degree (Bratko & Marušiæ, 1997).” According to Sigmund Freud a person’s ideas of right and wrong are learned from parents, teachers, and other people in authority. So in reality no matter if the person is a parent, teacher or other person in ...