Psychologists have studied human behavior and development for hundreds of years. John B. Watson considers the father of behavioral psychology to have begun his studies in the 1900s and psychologists to this day have continued his work. In this research paper, I will write about how the environment shapes the type of people we become. How growing up without a parent affects your studies, or how being exposed to different events in your life shapes the person you become. For better or worse, all events that happen in life have some sort of psychological effect; In this article, we will explore all of these possibilities. Take for example the Boston bombing, where two young men placed bombs at the end of the Boston Marathon and detonated them as the athletes finished. According to an article written in Psychology Today by Dr. Dale Archer, he talks about how the suspects were both seen as losers and did not fit in within their own communities. He added: “They want to be noticed, validated and found. a place in the world that will accept them.” Unfortunately, Tamerlan and Djokar (suspected terrorists) felt accepted within a terrorist group. Tamerlan and Dzhokar are also great examples of how incorrect socialization and parenting can have a negative effect on your child's development. Children experience the effects of social class in the school context (Miller, Kohn, and Schooler 1986). According to Kohn and Schooler, the social situation influences family processes through the effect of the 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 well-paid job and can afford to live in a better neighborhood... in the middle of the paper. ....t and be physically active than young people who grew up in areas where leisure facilities were poor. Overall, the environment you grow up in has an effect on the person you become, it can be as serious as PTSD or as simple in your neighborhood park.Work CitedHolbrook PH.D, TL, Galarnneau MS , MR, Dye, JL, BSN, KQ and Dougherty MPH, AL Morphine use after combat injury in Iraq and in posttraumatic stress disorder. the New England Journal of Medicine. Retrieved from http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa0903326#t=articleResultsPh.D, DA (April 21, 2013). Read between the lines (head). Psychology today. Liat Korn and Gil ZukermanJournal of Religion and Health, Vol. 50, no. 4 (December 2011), pp. 911-921Published by: SpringerArticle Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41349846