Affective Development Flashcards
Bronfenbrenner
INDIVIDUAL
MICROSYSTEM (everyday) child-parent, child-teacher, child-peer interactions
MESOSYSTEM (connection between child’s systems) home-school relationship
EXOSYSTEM (two systems, child absent) parents’ work, parent relationships friends/family, teacher’s status/relationships in school
MACROSYSTEM (society/culture influences) widely shared cultural values, beliefs, customs, laws
CHRONOSYSTEM time, space - maturation/development societal change, change in life’s circumstances, change in contexts/relationships over time
What is a the primary responsibility of a teacher?
To engage students and their parents or caregivers in learning.
What is social cognition?
Children observe other people, try to make sense of their behavior and plan and predict others’ actions and emotions based on their own implicit ideas of how human beings operate.
As inherently social creatures, most children and adolescents spend much of the mental energy engaged in social cognition, speculating about what other people are thinking and feeling and choosing their behaviors towards others accordingly.
What is the progression of social understanding?
progression from self-awareness to social understanding in pursuit of social competence
awareness of self recognizes concrete self recognizes own ideas reflects on own ideas infers own ideas on others awareness that other have own ideas reflects on ideas of others in relation to self
Theory of mind
concept of human thought that children over the age of five infer mental states like intentions, memories, true, false beliefs, to use these for understanding, predicting behavior of self, others
Why is theory of mind significant in learning?
children need to accurately anticipate others’ actions, thoughts and emotional responses
serious disadvantage in social situations that call for empathy or understanding, prosocial behavior, without it
limited skills in communicating, negotiating
lack of capability to detect deception/humour or participating in fantasy play
difficulty in perspective taking
children with rich imaginary lives, better developed ToM
pretend play can enhance ToM
Social information-processing
SELECTING and ATTENDING to certain stimuli
Making sense through ELABORATION
STORING learning in long term memory
RETRIEVING previous learning when relevant
Social-cognitive biases
Predisposition to interpret or respond to social situations a certain way
mental shortcuts in dealing with complex social world
Prejudice
negative attitude, feeling towards people from specific groups
Gender schema theory
children and adolescents use gender as an organizing theme to classify and understand their perceptions about the world
