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Fairfield University -- PY163 -- Developmental Psychology. Lecture 11a Theories of Social Development. Social Development: how development is shaped by the people and social institutions surrounding them. Theories of Social Development. Psychoanalytic theories Learning theories
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Fairfield University -- PY163 -- Developmental Psychology Lecture 11a Theories of Social Development
Social Development: how development is shaped by the people and social institutions surrounding them
Theories of Social Development • Psychoanalytic theories • Learning theories • Social Cognition theories • Ecological theories
Freud’s answer to Victorian Vienna: theory of psychosexual development
Theories of Social Development • Psychoanalytic theories • Learning theories • Social Cognition theories • Ecological theories
Learning Theories -- Behaviorism: Classical & Operant Conditioning
Learning Theories -- Behaviorism: Classical & Operant Conditioning
Learning Theories -- Behaviorism: Classical & Operant Conditioning
Learning Theories -- Behaviorism: Classical & Operant Conditioning
Learning Theories -- Albert Bandura & Social Learning Theory
Learning Theories -- Albert Bandura & Social Learning Theory
Theories of Social Development • Psychoanalytic theories • Learning theories • Social Cognition theories • Ecological theories
Example of Social Cognition theories -- Selman’s stages of “role taking”
Theories of Social Development • Psychoanalytic theories • Learning theories • Social Cognition theories • Ecological theories
Ecological Theories of Development: Uri Bronfenbrenner & Bioecological Models • Recognition of many variables that effect social development concurrently • Child “in the center” of multiple levels of influences with their own attributes influencing their social development: • Gender • Age • Temperament • Health • Cognitive competencies • Etc.
Ecological theories of development: environment is conceptualized as a set of “nested structures”
“Microsystem” – bi-directional activities, relationships in direct contact with the child – Family, Peers, Schools
“Mesosystem” – the connections among microsystems that indirectly influences the child (mom to mom, family members to school, family to religious organization, neighborhood daycare to school)
“Exosystem” – Institutions that have indirect influences (parents work place, quality of neighborhood, health care systems)
“Macrosystem” – beliefs, values, customs, laws of • larger society
Ecological Theories of Development: Uri Bronfenbrenner & Bioecological Models • Recognition of many variables that effect social development concurrently Bronfenbrenner would argue that all… ...Psychoanalytic theories ...Learning theories ...Social Cognition theories are variables in the larger “ecology” of the child