What The Child Psychology Is And How It Is Developed

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Human mind works like a computer that has neutral circuits accustomed for solving different kind of problems.  It has specific domains and computing modules to select and organize the specific information that helps to construct knowledge among human being.

Let me describe here what the child psychology is and why a child attracts towards a specific information.  ‘Information means any event or anything (physical or psychological) i.e. available in the surrounding environment of child that he wants to learn.

It is learnt that the child behavior is built genetically and here are many other factors than genetics that are responsible for development of a child psychology.

My mom loves me

A child has attachment behavioural system that is developed stage to stage.  In such system, a child starts to explore a potential care giver, since the age of 6 to 8 weeks, who is able to secure him.  He protests when his caregiver goes far away from him; he greets his return also.  However, he discriminates between the caregivers and displays a range of attachment behaviours to them.   He starts to follow his care giver when he is able to do so, since the age of one year.

Mr. Bronfenbrenner, the renowned scientist, has developed an ecological theory.  He observed that there are five ecological systems that influence the behaviour of a child.  If any change exists in any of these five systems, it will have the corresponding effect on his behaviour. The theory not only determines child behaviour but it determines the behaviour of adults also.

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1)   Microsystem: A Microsystem is the closest layer to a child where he has direct contact with different structures e.g. mother, father, brother and sister in his home or teacher, a class fellow in his school.

A child is directly influenced by his immediate surrounding environment.  Each Microsystem has different settings; each setting has different values, disciplines and expectations from him in the surrounding environment.  The surrounding environment at a venue helps him to learn and understand the world.

For example, a child is influenced by his parents’ behaviours in his home. Their doings, the way they behave and interact with each other has direct lasting effect on his behavioural traits.  

Father with Teacher of his son

   2)  Mesosystem: When two or more different Microsystems, which have their own settings for a child, interacts with each other, influences a child’s psychology directly.  The child has to transit between different Microsystems in his life.  Such regular transitions to the new systems help him to adapt to the transitions instantly.  A Mesosystem may cause anxiety and stress to a child as he has to change his role in the Mesosystem instantly.  Let’s take an example of a child when he has to interact with his parents, fellow students and teachers simultaneously on any celebration day in his school.   The child behaves differently than he behaves normally in the presence of his parents only, in the presence of his fellow students only or in the presence of his teacher only. He gains experience to deal such immediate transition of a Mesosystem.

3)      Exosystem:  It is a larger social system.  Here child has no role to play, however, when his structure interacts with his/her own Microsystem, it impact a child’s development indirectly.  Here, it is observed that each structure has his/or her own Microsystem that are indirectly linked to his child. 

Work Place of a Father affect the behavior of family

  Parent’s working schedules, their social networks, school and peers and neighbourhood are primarily indirectly linked to a child and impact his development, e.g. the excessive stress at workplace of a father indirectly impacts the entire family. The Exosystem can empower or degrade a child as well. 

People of Assamese culture in India

 4)Macrosystem: Macrosystem is a larger perspective of the theory.  It shows that how customs and laws of a society impact and regulate the behavior of a child.  Every society has some ideology and principles that it expects from everyone in the societal group.  It helps to understand what, where and why the relations stand in the society.  It has a cascading effect on interaction in each closest layer of a child.

5)     Chronosystem: Chronosystem is linked to time that helps a child to learn things of his own accord. The external events, such as timing of parent’s death or internal events, such as psychological changes due to his aging train him how to deal with the different types of situations and stress.