EDUC 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Operant Conditioning, Behaviorism, Classical Conditioning
1 Sep 2016
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Microsystem what immediately affects the individual: parent-child, classroom. Mesosystem connections between microsystems: parent involvement in school life, parents" workplace. Exosystem social settings that don"t contain developing person but still affect them: parents" flexibility in the work environment due to the board of directors, parents" social networks, neighborhood. Macrosystem cultural values, laws, customs, and resources: individualist vs. collectivist. Gave structure to idea of nurture and enviornment. Head in one direction or the other. How you were brought up nuture. Certain things happen at a very specific stage. Niche-picking is active gene-environment correlation: the individual is finding a place where their genetic inheritance fits: wanting to play flute, switching to percussion. There is also passive gene-environment correlation through parental choices: mom forcing me to take piano lessons. Finally, there is evocative gene-environment correlation, where the personality of the child affects the behavior or reaction of parents and others. Programmed cell death: to make space for the synapses, surrounding neurons die.
