EDHD 230 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Konrad Lorenz, Mary Ainsworth, Harry Harlow

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Education, Human Development
• Course: EDHD 230
• Professor: Hobbs

Document Summary

Made of change mechanisms (explains a process that makes change occur) Theory: applies to a framework to understand something. Process by which individuals acquire the knowledge, skills, and character traits that enable them to participate as effective members of groups and society. Family, school, child care, peers, mass media, community Emphasis on the child as one that interacts w/ society. Microsystem: direct experiences in small settings (school) Mesosystem: interrelations between microsystems (parents on school board) Exosystem: settings that indirectly affect children through microsystems (child"s parent gets fired) Macrosystem: aspects of society in which a child lives (economics/culture) Time framework within which everything that happens in the other systems occurs. Developmental adequacy- view development as dynamic or unending series of interactions. Attachment theory- mary ainsworth (limited scope for da) Infants seek proximity and early experiences w/attachment figures have lasting effects. Infant willing to change behavior to maintain proximity (crying) Triggers to make children seek proximity include .