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Microsystem
the immediate environment surrounding an individual

ex. teachers, work, school, friends, family
Mesosystem
Links two or more microsystems

ex. school vs work, friends vs. family, family vs school, studying vs friends.
Exosystem
Interaction among two or more enviornment, one of which does not directly include the individual.

ex. health care, tv, internet, video games, relationships w/ parents, parents work
Macrosystems
Includes many of the broader cultural patterns such as beliefs, customs, knowledge, and morals

ex. culture, social behaviors, chores, way raised, customs, right to vote, beliefs, NCLB
Chronosystem
the chronological nature of development within the individual, as well as the history of the surrounding environment. (all with timing)

ex. puberty timing, timing of deaths
Control
the manner + strictness W/ which parents provide limits + discipline to their children
Responsiveness
Includes affection, acceptance + caring involved in parenting
Autonomy Granting
encourage self-reliance. encourage children to be independent.
Authoritative
High control, High responsiveness

(best outcomes)
Authoritarian
High control, Low responsiveness

(adjustment problems, psychological control)
Permissive
Low control, High responsiveness

(impulsive, disobedient, demanding)
Uninvolved
Low control, Low responsiveness

(neglect, disrupts development, antisocial, academic difficulties)
Sleeper Effect
difficulties encouraged by adolescents whose parents have been divorced for years.

(problems with kids years later after divorce)
Self-fulfilling prophecy
an unfounded expectation that becomes true simply b/c is was expected.
Cliques
small groups or 2-8 who know each other well

(similar in age, SES, race, and shared activities)
Crowds
larger, reputation-based peer groups

(populars/preps, jocks, nerds, normals, loners, druggies)
Overt aggression
fighting; intent to harm physically
Relational aggression
behaviors intended to damage another childs' friendships, social status, or feelings or inclusion
Socioeconomic popularity
students niminate peers who they most/least like

(not related to aggressive behaviors)
perceived popularity
students nominate peers who are most/least popular
Peer statuses of children and adolescents
1. popularity
a)socioeconomic popularity
b)perceived popularity

2. Rejected- aggressive behaviors w/o positive cooperation + social skills

3. Neglected- neither popular nor aggressive

4. Controversial- popular, also disliked
Eriksons stages

lifespan theory
Trust vs Mistrust (infancy)
Autonomy vs Shame (toddlers)
Initiative vs Guilt (preschool)
Industry vs Inferiority (elem/middle school)
Identity vs Identity diffusion (adolescence)
Intimacy vs Isolation (young adulthood)
generativity vs stagnation (middle adulthood)
integrity vs despair (elderly/old age)
Exploration
a period of role experimentation + tying new behaviors, including contemplating morals + values
Commitment
making decisions about area's of one's life.

education, career, family, political views
identity diffusion
have either not yet begun the process, or have been unable to make commitments
Identity forclosure
have accepted commitments laid out by parents
moratorium
actively involved in the exploration process
self identification
ethnic label one uses to identity with a group
sense of belongingness
importance or concern given to a group
pos or neg attitudes
acceptance or denial of ethnic group
ethnic invlovment
participation in social and cultural aspects of a group
Stages of Ethnic Identity
(J.S. Phinney)
Diffusional/forclosure
Moratorium
Achieved
Diffusional/forclosure
not yet examined
moratorium
currently exploring
achieved
committed to group membership
gender identity
knowledge that one is male or female
gender role identity
the knowledge that one behaves approximately according to social expectations

(masculine, feminine, androgynous)
gender role attitude
approval or disapproval of societal expectations
Gender theories
Biological- males + females behave difly + have dif expectations due to bio difs

Gender Schemes- focuses on thought processes

Social learning theory- gender identity is developed by observing other's attitudes + behaviors
Steps of Gender schema development
gender labeling (2-3)
gender stability (3-4)
gender constancy (4-5)
Gender role flexibility
ability to alter expectations for own and other's behaviors
Self-concept
a cognitive perception about oneself
Self-esteem
an affective evaluation of oneself
Global self-esteem
singular, relatively stable characteristic of the self
Specific self-esteem
separate components related to particular domains
factors affecting self concept
young girls have more SC
middle school boys
factors affecting self esteem
higher SES
girls
Af Am
moral reasoning
seeking rationales for determining right and wrong
Moral Reasoning: Piaget
moral realism
morality of cooperation
Moral Realism- right and wrong determined by conseq given by authority figures

M of C-children can see the complexities of right + wrong. (rules can be bent)
Moral Reasoning: Kohlberg
preconventional - self interst, not using conventions or society.
conventional- external authorities, social standards are the focus
Postconventional- personal convictions about what is right and wrong.
Preconventional level
punishment/obedience
naiive hedonistic or personal reward.
conventional level
interpersonal authority
social authority
post conventional level
morality of social contract
morality of indv principals
Gilligan
argued that K lacked attention to women
men more justice oriented
women more caring oriented
Eisenberg
focuses on positive justice, why people do the right thing
Empathy Dev: Hoffman
Stage 1- global empathy (infancy)
Stage 2- egocentric empathy (toddlerhood)
Stage 3- empathy for another's feelings (childhood)
empathy
the ability to experience the emotions or feeling of another person
socioeconomic development delay
a self-centered, egocentric orientation
externalizing blame
seeing oneself as the victim
mislabeling or minimizing blame
viewing behavior as less serious than others see it
hostile attribution bias
tendency to interpret another's intention as hostile
Social info processing model
indvls process social info 6 steps
encoding
interpreting
clarification
response access
response decision
behavioral enactment
Advancing moral development: Parenting Strategies
induction- explain discipline
nurturance- express warmth + affection
demandingness- set high standards
modeling- demonstrate examples of moral conduct
Advancing moral development: Peers
peer relationships must include reciprocity
sharing is imp for younger children
Advancing moral development: Schools
create trust
dev discipline
community service
Constructivism
a model in psychology that characterizes learning as a process of actively constructing knowledge
Individual constructivism
a person constructs knowledge by using cog processes to gain knowledge from exp rather than memorizing facts
social constructivism
indvls const knowlge thru interaction between knowlge they bring and social/cultural exchanges.
Piaget
Biological maturation -nature
Active exploration - nurture
social experiences- nurture
equilibrium - self regulation
schemes
organized patterns of physical action
operations
mental activity of schmes
disequilibrium
a discrepancy between their existing way of knowing and the new experiences
assimilation
involves integrating new info or a new experience into an existing cog structure
accommodation
involves any modification of an existing scheme or formation of a new cog structure when it is not possible to fit info into an existing structure.
Piaget: Sensorimotor Stage
object performance
0-2
an awareness that objects and people continue to exist even when they are not visible
Piaget: Preoperational Stage
2-7
children develop semiotic functions. represent objects or actions using signs and symptoms.
Piaget: concrete operations
7-11
children form mental representations that accurately reflect possible actions and event in the physical world
Piaget: formal operations
11-
thinkers have achieved a characterization to solve physical, logical, and math problems
Egocentrism
selfish
egocentric speech
talking about things without regard for the interest of the listener
centration
an inability to focus on 2 dimensions simultaneously.
conservation
the realization that quantity or amount remains the same.
identity constancy
children realize that an object remains qaulitatively the same even if its appearance may have changed in some way.
Vygosky
cog dev results from a complex interaction between heredity and environment
Zone of proximal development
all possible skills that children are on the verge of developing
intersubjectivity
construction of knowledge
psychological and cultural tools
signs and symbols, mnemonics, concepts
scaffolding
temporary social support to help children accomplish a task
internalization
performing tasks less socially and more mentally
socialized speech
speech used to communicate with others
inner speech
internalized speech
active learning
any type of meaningful learning in which students construct a rich knowldge base of interconnected concepts
divorce + remarriage
50 % of all 1st marriages end in divorce
60 % of all 2nd marriages end in divorce
nearly half of US children will live in single-parent home for some time
children who have difficulty with divorce
young children
boys more than girls
children with opp sex parent