Aslin’s Model of Environmental Influence

Environmental Influence Models

• The model suggesting that a skill or behavior develops earlier than normal due to experience is called experience-dependent plasticity.
• The model indicating a purely maturational pattern with no environmental effect is referred to as the maturational model.
• A model that indicates a particular experience leads to permanent gain or high level of performance is experience-expectant plasticity.

Ecological Perspective by Urie Bronfenbrenner

• The child is situated within a social environment and considered to interact within multiple layers of systems that affect their development, including the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem.
• Components of this complex system are thought to interact dynamically, where changes in one component can influence others, emphasizing a holistic view of development.
• The perspective highlights that children have the most direct interactions with significant social agents such as parents, friends, and siblings, particularly within the microsystem.
• The influential variables affecting all humanity, like gender and culture, are located within the macrosystem.

Parenting Styles

• The parenting style characterized by high nurturance but low maturation demands, control, and communication is called permissive parenting.
• The style characterized by high control and maturity demands but low nurturance and communication is known as authoritarian parenting.

Child Development Theories

• Theories emphasizing children's actions on the environment, proposing that age-related changes in reasoning precede changes in other domains, are referred to as constructivist theories.
• Theories based on the idea that humans process information similarly to computers are known as information processing theories.
• The term for the social cognitive theory, which assumes age-related change results from maturationally determined conflicts between internal drives and society's demands, is social-emotional development theory.

Research Methods

• The method involving studying different age groups at the same time is known as the cross-sectional method.
• Studying the same participants over a period of time is referred to as the longitudinal method.
• The method that combines cross-sectional and longitudinal designs is called the cross-sequential method.
• The ecological system in which the child has no direct contact but experiences influence in an immediate context is known as the exosystem.

Learn about Aslin's Model of Environmental Influence, which categorizes different levels of environmental impact on skill development, from purely maturational patterns to pure environmental effects.