PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Parenting Styles, Peer Pressure, Parental Control
23 Sep 2018
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Parents are most likely to engage in caretaking behaviours to promote their genes. Parental investment theory moms and dad have different interests and intentions when it comes to caring about their children. Environmental/learning approach focuses on the rewards and punishments of some behaviours. Cognitive approach requires teaching of certain behaviours and transmission of general attitudes or belief systems. With peers everyone is equal so more time is spent negotiating, taking other people"s perspectives and cooperating. )nteraction with peers breaks down child"s egocentrism and lets them develop more mature thoughts. Sociocultural approach: development always happens with influence of a social setting. Benefit from interactions with peers and teachers for example. Child is affected by all the social systems they are apart of and they are all related. Family is the first and foremost to socialize a child from the time they are born.
