PS282 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Parenting Styles, Intersubjectivity, Environmental Psychology
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Ecological model 4: ecological psychology and behaviour settings. Deviation countering circuits are how deviations from rules are punished, ex detention. Vetoing circuits; the final result of deviation countering circuits, ex getting expelled. Potential for marginalization of students not in roles. Increases members" sense of responsibility for maintaining the setting. Found greater levels of student involvement in small schools. Model only focuses on behaviour and discounts cultural meanings and subjective processes. Need to understand something about culture to understand activity settings. Contends that people actively create the significance of these settings. Introduces a way to study culture within psychology. Has been useful in investigations of child development, delinquency, education, community intervention. Beliefs, assumptions, values/emotional experiences that are shared by setting participants. There is a minimal focus on relationships between people compared with other approaches to studying ecology of settings. Road construction by a school; effects on kids" health and learning. They can affect health and individual well being.
