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Psychology & Western society devalues social bonds and subscribes to individualism ... (e.g. resteraunt) and phenotype (Chucky Cheese vs. Chili's vs. Pappadeaux's) ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: PSYC 4800


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PSYC 4800
  • Beyond the Individual Level

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Its all about me me me me me
  • Social bonds are natural part of human nature
  • Psychology Western society devalues social
    bonds and subscribes to individualism
  • Self-made man
  • Erikson
  • Autonomy
  • Self-esteem
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Separation
  • Individuation
  • Not all cultures subscribe to individualism

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Moving Beyond the Individual
  • Environment
  • Although it implies the physical, social
    environment is most important in community
    psychology
  • Lewin argued Bf(P,E)
  • Behavior is a Function of the Person and his/her
    Environment
  • Moos later introduced the concept of climate
  • Barker researched behavior settings

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Behavior Settings
  • Behavior Settings
  • Small social systems with prescribed behaviors
  • Can be official or unofficial
  • Barker argued for genotype (e.g. resteraunt) and
    phenotype (Chucky Cheese vs. Chilis vs.
    Pappadeauxs)
  • Each setting has a form and a function
  • Each setting has roles and scripts
  • Underpopulation vs. Overpopulation
  • can be biased

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Social Climate
  • Rudy Moos
  • Coined term social climate to illustrate that
    each setting has its own personality
  • Argued for person-environment fit
  • Created several measures of social climate
  • Highlighted the importance of experience vs.
    observation
  • Components
  • Relationship orientation
  • Personal development
  • System maintenance/change

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Understanding Ecology
  • Interaction vs. Transaction
  • On-going bidirectional
  • Ecology
  • Transactions between individual and environments
  • Kellys ecological analogy
  • Interdependence
  • Adaptation
  • Cycling of Resources
  • Succession

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Bronfenbrenners Ecological Model
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Bronfenbrenners Ecological Model
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Bronfenbrenners Ecological Model
  • Levels
  • Individual
  • biological, psychological, genetic
    predispositions
  • Microsystem
  • Settings in which the individual directly
    interacts
  • Mesosystem
  • Transactions between microsystems
  • Exosystem
  • Settings that affect the individual but they may
    not directly interact with these settings
  • Macrosystem
  • Society, culture, norms
  • Chronosystem
  • zeitgeist
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