According to the goodness-of-fit model, babies with a negative temperamental quality find which of the following parental approaches most desirable?
a. high understanding and high tolerance
b. high demandingness and low tolerance
c. low tolerance and high understanding
d. low demandingness and high tolerance
A. Thomas and Chess proposed the concept of goodness-of-fit, meaning that children develop best if there is a good fit between the temperament of the child and environmental demands.
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