A PSY 203 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ecological Systems Theory, Social Learning Theory, Classical Conditioning
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Different theories on child development: continuous vs. discontinuous, both: knowledge we learn collects over time. New ways of understanding and responding to the world (major changes, one step to another) Continuous: development is a smooth, gradual process: one course or many, nature vs. nurture, both, stability vs. plasticity, stability: usually associated with heredity but can also refer to early experience. (life long characteristics, plasticity: responsive to experience. Erickson followed into adulthood, more psycho social. Freud more about psycho sexual stages: components of identity, and what they do (id, ego, superego) Id: i want, selfish (basic form of motivation: ego: compromise, realistic, superego: societal norms and expectations, how freud and erikson"s theories differ. Piaget"s cognitive developmental theory: continuous: sensorimotor(birth-2), preoperational(2-7), concrete. Bronfenbrenner"s ecological systems theory: individual: temperament, biology, microsystem: direct relationships, mesosystem: relationships between direct relationships (mom teacher relationship, exosystem: indirection relationships (mom"s work environment impacts child, macrosystem: culture, society. Chapter 3: biological foundations, prenatal development, and birth.
