When looking at the case study of Dylan, it may seem difficult to understand how someone with a loving family and a successful twin brother ended up as an addict who is in and out of prison. How can two identical people end up with such different lives? Dylan is a 45-year-old drug addict, who never graduated high school, and has a non-existent relationship with his 1-year-olddaughter. Daniel, his twin brother, is a married father of three, owns his own graphic designs firm, and is living a respectable life. When applying theories liked Bioecological, Attachment, and Social Learning to the life of Dylan, those theories can offer explanations as to why one twin ended up one way and the other another way.
The Attachment Theory, proposed …show more content…
The Bioecological Theory is actually an improved theory of Bronfenbrenner’s previous theory, the Ecological Systems Theory. He realized he was missing one key thing that also influenced a person’s development, and that was the person themselves. The first factor that Bronfenbrenner states in his theory is the proximal processes, which encompasses how people interact with others and their environment over an extended period of time. The process is seen as significant in a person’s development. The second factor is the person themselves, meaning their physical characteristics, their physiology and personality. Personality, looks, health, ect. all determines how they interact with their environment and how their environment reacts back. Bronfenbrenner subdivides environment into four groups; the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem. These four subdivisions cover interactions of a child with their immediate environment, the relations between different environments (a teacher and the child’s parents), environments in which the child has no control over, and cultural traditions and practices. All of these subdivisions influences a child’s development. The third factor Bronfenbrenner addresses is time. Changes like death, puberty, and other inevitable stages of life, influences …show more content…
Key points of this theory are that learning is the observations of mannerisms and consequences of those mannerisms, reinforcement of certain behaviors, and the person’s outer influences. Bandura specifies that social learning is done either through a demonstration, verbal instructions, or through media (Kattari, 2015, pp. 379-380). This theory can explain why Dylan’s behavior not only started, but why it continued well into adulthood. Expanding on the Attachment Theory, with Dylan being a socially and emotionally inept child it would not be unusual for him to watch a lot of television and not interact with his peers. Dylan could have seen a character in a show that he felt he had a lot in common with and unconsciously added bits of the character’s personality to his own. If that character was portrayed as rebellious, with angst, or hopelessness, Dylan could have seen that type of behavior and incorporated into his own behavior. The Social Learning Theory can also explain why Dylan continued being a drug addict and why he would always be sent back to prison. If Dylan interpreted that being a heroin addict did not have any negative consequences than he would not change his behavior, no matter how old he got. It is also possible that the attention Dylan received for being a drug addict could have been a positive
The Attachment Theory, proposed …show more content…
The Bioecological Theory is actually an improved theory of Bronfenbrenner’s previous theory, the Ecological Systems Theory. He realized he was missing one key thing that also influenced a person’s development, and that was the person themselves. The first factor that Bronfenbrenner states in his theory is the proximal processes, which encompasses how people interact with others and their environment over an extended period of time. The process is seen as significant in a person’s development. The second factor is the person themselves, meaning their physical characteristics, their physiology and personality. Personality, looks, health, ect. all determines how they interact with their environment and how their environment reacts back. Bronfenbrenner subdivides environment into four groups; the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem. These four subdivisions cover interactions of a child with their immediate environment, the relations between different environments (a teacher and the child’s parents), environments in which the child has no control over, and cultural traditions and practices. All of these subdivisions influences a child’s development. The third factor Bronfenbrenner addresses is time. Changes like death, puberty, and other inevitable stages of life, influences …show more content…
Key points of this theory are that learning is the observations of mannerisms and consequences of those mannerisms, reinforcement of certain behaviors, and the person’s outer influences. Bandura specifies that social learning is done either through a demonstration, verbal instructions, or through media (Kattari, 2015, pp. 379-380). This theory can explain why Dylan’s behavior not only started, but why it continued well into adulthood. Expanding on the Attachment Theory, with Dylan being a socially and emotionally inept child it would not be unusual for him to watch a lot of television and not interact with his peers. Dylan could have seen a character in a show that he felt he had a lot in common with and unconsciously added bits of the character’s personality to his own. If that character was portrayed as rebellious, with angst, or hopelessness, Dylan could have seen that type of behavior and incorporated into his own behavior. The Social Learning Theory can also explain why Dylan continued being a drug addict and why he would always be sent back to prison. If Dylan interpreted that being a heroin addict did not have any negative consequences than he would not change his behavior, no matter how old he got. It is also possible that the attention Dylan received for being a drug addict could have been a positive