PSY 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Urie Bronfenbrenner, Theoretical Ecology, Psychopathology
24 Apr 2018
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Socioemotional processes relationships with others, emotions, and personality. Human development is shaped by a dynamic and continuous interaction between biology and experience. Ethology stresses that behavior is strongly influenced by biology, is tied to evolution, and is characterized by critical or sensitive periods. These are specific time frames during which, according to ethologists, the presence or absence of certain experiences has a long-lasting influence on individuals. Ethological theory stresses biological factors, whereas ecological theory emphasizes environmental factors. Micro system: the setting in which the individual lives. These contexts include the person"s family, peers, school, neighborhood, and work. It is in the microsystem that the most direct interactions with social agents take place with parents, peers, and teachers, for example. Meso system: relations between microsystems or connections between contexts. Examples are the relation of family experiences to school experiences, school experiences to church experiences, and family experiences to peer experiences.
