Development Across Cultures
- Created by: erin.hastie
- Created on: 13-01-23 09:48
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2. What is Bronfenbrenner's ecological model
- Children are genetically similar to their parents, meaning they are the only people they can truly identify with
- Children are the centre of their own ecosystem, yet there are lots of factors which influence their life, like culture and family, which we must take into account when studying them
- All children are ecologically different due to their culture
- Families in western backgrounds have little knowledge about other cultures, meaning the children lack empathy and understanding towards children of different races
3. Which is not a common assumption about development
- It follows a consistent procedure regardless of external factors
- It only occurs in childhood
- It has a specific, universal timeline
- Western methods of measuring development can be applied to all cultures
4. What is not a problem with development assumptions
- Negative stereotype- If a child does not fit in with the stages
- Ethnocentric- Evaluating other cultures according to customs of one's own culture
- Biases- Research questions relevant to own cultural experiences, theories confirmed by those who share the same experiences
- Methods and Tools- Often developed and validated within a single culture
5. Which is support for overimitation
- If a child views a character they identify with in the media, they will internalise this character and believe they are them, changing their behaviour and interests to suit
- Chimapnzees and children observed a woman opening a puzzle box, the chimapnzee ignored actions that were unimportant, yet the children copied everything, prioritising social conventions over physical causality
- When children are given a subject they are interested, they will ignore the interests of others and talk to their peers about it none stop
- Children imitation others to an extent where people become uncomfortable and withdraw from the child, shown through observations and self-report techniques
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