Child Psychopathology
Events in the family or school environment influence and individual development. Some children develop psychological disorder and other do not because development is a transaction among biological, psychological, and sociocultural variable. All psychological disorders are an indication of adaptational failure in one or more areas of development.
The study of the causes of childhood disorders is known as etiology. It considers biological, psychological, and environmental process interact to produce outcomes observable over time (31). The interaction of child and the environment is referred to as a transaction. A transaction views children and environment are active contributor to adaptive and maladaptive behavior.
The three perspective, biological, psychological, and the social and cultural influences is why some children develop psychological disorders and others don’t. In the biological perspective, the brain structure remains flexible for months and even years after birth …show more content…
Particular consequences show behavior is acquired, through four primary operant leaning conditioning, positive and negative reinforcement are actions that increase the response and; and extinction and punishment decrease the response. Classical conditioning explains the acquisition of deviant behavior because when a neutral event is paired enough times with an unconditioned stimulus. The neutral even becomes conditions. For example, associating reading with humiliation would lead a person to avoid any reading situation. In social learning children can learn a new behavior merely by watching another person, social learning also incorporates social cognition. Social cognition is how children think of themselves and other resulting in the representation of themselves and their relationship. Both the social learning and cognition play a role in acquiring desirable or undesirable
Events in the family or school environment influence and individual development. Some children develop psychological disorder and other do not because development is a transaction among biological, psychological, and sociocultural variable. All psychological disorders are an indication of adaptational failure in one or more areas of development.
The study of the causes of childhood disorders is known as etiology. It considers biological, psychological, and environmental process interact to produce outcomes observable over time (31). The interaction of child and the environment is referred to as a transaction. A transaction views children and environment are active contributor to adaptive and maladaptive behavior.
The three perspective, biological, psychological, and the social and cultural influences is why some children develop psychological disorders and others don’t. In the biological perspective, the brain structure remains flexible for months and even years after birth …show more content…
Particular consequences show behavior is acquired, through four primary operant leaning conditioning, positive and negative reinforcement are actions that increase the response and; and extinction and punishment decrease the response. Classical conditioning explains the acquisition of deviant behavior because when a neutral event is paired enough times with an unconditioned stimulus. The neutral even becomes conditions. For example, associating reading with humiliation would lead a person to avoid any reading situation. In social learning children can learn a new behavior merely by watching another person, social learning also incorporates social cognition. Social cognition is how children think of themselves and other resulting in the representation of themselves and their relationship. Both the social learning and cognition play a role in acquiring desirable or undesirable