PSYC 3710 Chapter : Lecture September 22.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3710
• Professor: Carol Anne Hendry

Document Summary

Coming in both directions, influence from in to out and from out to: each system contains roles, norms and rules, help shape psychological development, child not a passive recipient of experiences, active, someone who helps to construct the settings, microsystem: immediate environments (family, school, peer groups, direct interactions with others (parents, siblings, extended family, friends, teachers, mesosystem: the connections between immediate environments (ex. a child"s home and school, children with strict authoritarian parents may have trouble interacting with teachers, exosystem: external environmental settings which indirectly affect development (ex. Family life cycle: stage 1: newly married couple, stage 2: families with young children (0 5, stage 3: families of elementary aged children, stage 4: families with adolescents, stage 5: families launching children, stage 6: families in later life, rigid categories, fits more so the older version of what was considered a.