PSYC 250 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Isolation, Parenting Styles, Attention Seeking
Document Summary
Bronfenbrenner"s ecological view of the family system: ecological theory analyzes the social contexts of development in terms of five environmental systems: Microsystem: the setting in which the individual lives. Macrosystem: culture in which the individual lives. Interactions within a family system: scaffolding, mutual synchrony, boundaries, reciprocal socialization: every family is a system, a complex whole made up of interrelated and interacting parts: Each person"s behavior depends on the partner"s previous behavior (e. g. , mutual gazing or eye contact). The actions of the partners can be matched (e. g. , one partner imitates the other). Adjusting the level of guidance to fit the child"s performance. The mutual influence that parents and children extend to the whole process of socialization. This socialization is bidirectional with children socializing parents as parents socialize children. These reciprocal interchanges and mutual influence processes are sometimes referred to as transactional.
