PSYB32H3 Chapter 11: Chapter 11- detailed textbook notes for final exam
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Parents do indeed influence and direct their children but their children also influence them and play an active role in their own socialization (bronfenbrenner & morris. 2006) Socialization: the process by which parents and others ensure that a child s standards of behaviour, attitudes, skills, and motives conform closely to those deemed appropriate to her role in society. 2 principles of the interdependent system; the realization by psychotherapists that change the behaviour of the child and bronfenbrenners ecological theory. Both concern the relationship btw the child and the many systems within which he develops as well as relationships among these systems. 1-2 other principles that govern a system; interdependency (explaining why function of the family system is not smooth. Homeostasis the families ways to attain equilibrium in their functioning and to become resistant to forces that might alter their balance (distress, aggressive children, routine changes etc).