Evolving Theory
Process
Person
Context
Time
100
known as the founder and principal protagonist of developmental science.
Who is Robert Cairns
100
Particular forms of interaction between organism and environment
What are proximal processes?
100
Precursors and producers of later development
What are cognitive and socioeconomic characteristics?
100
Pattern of activities, social roles, and interpersonal relations experienced by the developing person in a given face-to-face setting with particular physical, social, and symbolic features that invite, permit, or inhibit, engagement in sustained, progressively more complex interaction with, and activity in, the immediate environment
What is a microsystem?
100
1. Microtime 2. Mesotime 3. Macrotime
What is the dimension of time at 3 successive levels?
200
Phenomenon of continuity and change in the biopsychological characteristics of human beings, both as individuals and as groups.
What is development defined in the bioecological model
200
1. Characteristics of Person 2. Immediate & remote environmental contexts 3. Time Periods
What influences the power to influence development?
200
1. Force 2. Resources 3. Demand
What are 3 types of person characteristics?
200
The linkages and processes taking place between two or more settings, at least one of which does not contain the developing person, but in which events occur that indirectly influence processes within the immediate setting in which the developing person lives
What is the exosystem?
200
Continuity vs. discontinuity in ongoing episodes
What is microtime?
300
1. Continuity and change in the biopsychological characteristics of human behavior 2. Theoretical models and corresponding research designs required for assessing continuity and change
What are the two developmental processes that the bioecological model addresses?
300
Dysfunction vs. Competence
What are the different paths to different outcomes?
300
1. Selective responsiveness 2. Structuring proclivities 3. Directive belief systems
What are generative characteristics?
300
Measurable mechanisms for bringing about what in an earlier era of developmental theory and research was call 'internalization'
What does the proximal process become?
300
Periodicity of these episodes across broader time intervals
What is mesotime?
400
Joint product of emerging and converging ideas, based on both theoretical and empirical grounds.
What is the process of developmental science in the discovery mode?
400
One that involves a series of progressively more differentiated formulations and corresponding data analysis, with the results at each successive step setting the stage for the next round
What is an appropriate research design?
400
Assets and Liabilities
What are resources?
400
A system of two or more microsystems
What is a mesosystem?
400
Changing expectations and events in the larger society
What is macrotime?
500
Providing scientific bases for the design of effective social policies and programs that counteract newly emerging developmentally disruptive influences.
What is the second aim of the discovery mode?
500
1. Must engage in activity 2. "fairly regular basis over extended period of time" 3. "increasingly more complex" 4. Bi-directional, reciprocity in exchange 5. Interactions with objects and symbols 6. Powerful moderating factors
What are the six features of the concept of proximal development?
500
Capacity to invite or discourage reactions from the social environment that can disrupt or foster the process of psychological growth
What is demand?
500
If persons are exposed over extended periods of time to settings that provide developmental resources and encourage engagement in proximal processes to a degree not experience in the other settings in their lives, then the power of proximal processes to actualize genetic potentials for developmental competence will be greater for those living in more disadvantaged and disorganized environments
What is Hypothesis 3?
500
1. Historical time and place 2. Timing in lives 3. Linked lives 4. Human agency
What are the four defining principles of the life-course theory?
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