FRHD 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Causal Structure, Coevolution, Developmental Psychology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3040
• Professor: Robyn Pitman

Document Summary

Many different ideas about the nature of bidirectional causality have emerged in recent decades such as: (pg. 5 {end of book} for diagram: transaction. Emphasize how parents and children change as they interact over time. Attributing causes by locating causality in recurrent reciprocal interchanges between parent and children overtime. The parent responds to the child"s present behaviour and in uences the form of the child"s subsequent behaviour and in uences the form of the child"s subsequent behaviour: child in uences parents behaviour in return. Neglected feature of the model is the dialectical idea of a constantly changing transformative nature of causality: should consider behaviours as a series of behaviours where responses become a stimulus for the other, circular causality. Implies that cause and outcomes are recursive and indeterminate. Involved in a recursive interactional loop- no distinct beginning or end: t and co-evolution. Emphasis the enduring contextual repercussions of long-term living arrangements.