PSYC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Teratology, Nocturnal Enuresis, Intellectual Disability

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3710
• Professor: Carol Anne Hendry

Document Summary

4 nested environmental systems: bi-directional influences within an between that influence human development. Each system contains roles, norms and rules: help shape psychological development. Each system has an associated set of rules and norms and roles that we take on and help us develop psychologically. Child not a passive recipient of experiences: active, someone who helps to construct the settings. Children as interactive members shaping their environment. Microsystem: immediate environments (e. g. family, school, peer group) Mesosystem: the connections b/w immediate environments (i. e. a child"s home and school) Exosystem: external environmental settings which indirectly affect development (e. g. parent"s workplace) Macrosystem: the larger cultural context (e. g. eastern vs. western culture) Microsystem: direct interactions w/ others (parents, siblings, extended. Mesosystem: children with strict authoritarian parents may have trouble: with permissive parenting children relying on external factors to family, friends, teachers) interacting w/ teachers motivate them. Teachers or schools are responsible for learning.