PSYC 3800 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Gender Identity, Distributive Justice, Dynamite Entertainment
4 Sep 2013
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Chapter 3: self and social and moral development. The total setting or situation that surrounds ad interacts with a person or event. It includes internal and external circumstances and situations that interact with the individual"s thoughts, feeling, and actions to shape development and learning. Influences the development of behaviors, beliefs, ad knowledge by providing resources, supports, incentives, punishments, expectations, teachers, models, and tools. Theory describing the nested social and cultural contexts that shape development. Bio aspect: people bring their biological selves to the developmental process. Ecological part recognizes that the social contexts in which we develop are ecosystems because they are in constant interaction and influence each other. Every person develops within a microsystem, inside a mesosystem, embedded in an exosystem which are a part of the macrosystem of the culture. Influences in all social systems are reciprocal: many dynamic forces that interact to create the context for individual development.
