THEORIES OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Social learning theory (Bandura)

Children learn through observation & imitation; modeling; vicarious reinforcement.

Crick & Dodge’s Social Information Processing (SIP) Theory

Six steps children use to interpret social situations.

1. Encoding cues

2. Interpreting cues

3. Clarifying goals

4. Generating possible responses

5. Evaluating responses

6. Enacting behavior

Aggressive children often:

• Encode fewer cues

• Interpret ambiguous cues as hostile (hostile attribution bias)

• Generate aggressive responses

• Choose aggressive goals

• Enact aggressive behaviors

Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory

·       Microsystem: Immediate environment (family, school).

·       Mesosystem: Connections between microsystems.

·       Exosystem: Indirect environment (parent’s workplace).

·       Macrosystem: Culture, laws, SES.

·       Chronosystem: Time (historical era, transitions).

Front: What is hostile attribution bias?

Back: Tendency to interpret ambiguous cues as hostile.

Front: Parent’s job affecting the child is which system?

Back: Exosystem.

1. Seeing someone bump you accidentally and assuming it was on purpose is:
   

1. B. Hostile attribution bias

1. Which ecological system includes cultural norms?
   

1. D. Macrosystem