PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Attribution Bias, Tantrum, Sibling Rivalry
11 Apr 2016
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Microsystem: direct interaction and influence on your development: the child, family, day care, preschool. Mesosystem: connection/interactions on or between immediate contact: schools, peer groups. Exosystem: indirect influence on child development: parent"s work, school board. Macrosystem: broad culture: laws, cultural customs, social class context. Chronosystem: change in persons environment over time: change in all systems changes child"s context and eventually development. Family: a social system or network of reciprocal relationships: family structure: Nuclear families (father + mother + children) Blended families (kids from past relationships come together) Survival of offspring: attending to their needs. Economic function: providing the means for them to acquire the skills and resources needed to be economically productive. Cultural training: teaching children the basic values of the culture. Direct (interaction) and indirect (interactions influenced from others) effects: direct: john smacks mary over the head with toy and takes it, indirect: mom comes in so john calms mary down and gives her the toy back.
