Crone & Verhulp: Social development Flashcards
When does puberty start in boys and girls?
Girls: before menstruation starts (menarche)
Boys: size of testicles
What is the development of the menarche last century?
It came much earlier
What is a social dilemma?
A dilemma in which individual self-interest at the short term is often at odds with the collective benefits in the longer term
What is the relation between a highly stressful family context, insensitive childrearing, psychological problems and somatic development/reproduction?
The more stressful/unsafe your childhood was, the earlier puberty arrives and the earlier you are sexually active
What does Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model say?
View on child development as a complex of relationships affected by multiple levels of the surrounding environment
Macrosystem-exosystem-mesosystem-microsystem-individual (y-axis = chronosystem)
What is the adolescence paradox?
Risk: arising of many psychological problems and deviant behavior
Resilience: increased flexibility, social exploration, increased learning capacity, many mental health issues disappear at the end of adolescence
Name 5 aspects of brain development in adolescence
- Decrease grey matter
- Decrease proximal neural connections
- Increase distal neural connections
- Evolutionary old areas develop earlier (sensorimotor)
- Evolutionary young areas develop later (PFC)
Explain the temporarily different balance that occurs in adolescents? What is that disbalance and what is the result of that disbalance? What is the neural basis?
Disbalance in affective and control processes
Results in risk behavior, vulnerability but also flexibility
Neural basis: early development amygdala, late development mentalizing network (PFC/pACC)
What is prosocial behavior?
Behavior that is directed at benefiting others (helping, sharing, donating etc.)
Which 3 factors influence the development of prosocial behavior?
- Strategic motivations
- Social relationship between helper and recipient
- Needs of the recipient/favourable factors
What are the 4 phases of adolescence and the corresponding age estimates?
- Middle/late childhood (7-10y)
- Puberty (11-14y)
- Mid/late adolescence (15-18y)
- Early adulthood (19-25)
What is the dictator game and what were the results?
Nonstrategic economic game: a ‘giver’ needs to divide money between himself and a random recipient.
Results: participants give 20-40% to recipient
What is the ultimatum game and what were the results?
Strategic economic game: participant decides on the amount he’s willing to give, the recipient can accept or decline. If he declines, no one will get anything.
Participants give 50% to recipient, so the participants showed strategic giving
What is the difference between the dictator game and the ultimatum game and how do the results on strategic motivations develop with age?
Dictator game: nonstrategic
–> Stays the same with age
Ultimatum game: strategic
–> Increases with age
What are the results of the dictator game with different levels of social relationship between helper and recipient? How does this develop over age?
If friends: 50%
–> increases with age
If strangers: 35%
–> decreases with age
What are the 3 main social brain regions?
- Medial PFC
- Temporal-parietal junction
- Superior temporal sulcus
What were examples of risk factors in the COVID 19 pandemic for adolescents?
- lack of routine
- exposure COVID info and media
- previous mental health problems
- adolescence
- relative doing first-line jobs (health care)
What were protective factors for adolescents during COVID-19 pandemic?
- Routine
- Family communication
- Social support
What is culture?
Information (knowledge, ideas, norms, values) that isn’t fixed in the genome and is transmitted purely socially
Where do cultural influences fit in Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model?
It fits in the macrosystem