APSY1031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hawthorne Effect, Psychopathology, Egalitarianism

• School: Boston College
• Department: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
• Course: APSY1031
• Professor: Julia Whitcavitch Devoy

Document Summary

Human development (2005: it is an evolving theoretical system for the scientific study of human development over time, microsystems any place that directly affects an individual, mesosystems any place that two microsystems overlap. Eg: family and school: exosystems place that does not have a direct impact on you but does affect your living condition. Eg: in asia, it is unacceptable to argue with ur parents, etc: chronosystem time. When dasani"s situation at home deteriorated, her academic work deteriorated as well. When chanel encounters sexual advances by an auburn employee (pg. Dasani falls ill because of food poisoning from the shelter"s spinach lasagna, dasani"s performance in school worsened but lately, she is skipping homework and arriving moody and tired, if she makes it to school at all. (pg. New york"s homeless children have an abysmal average attendance rate of 82 percent, well below what is typically needed to advance to the next grade.