2 - ecological system and family

Question 1

macrosystem

Answer 1

• describes the cultural context in which individuals live
• evolve over time

Question 2

family subsystems

Answer 2

• marital subsystems
• parent subsystems
• sibling subsystems
• extended family

Question 3

family as a family system theory: definition

Answer 3

• family members adapt certain behaviour based on place in family
• sociocultural theory of abnormal behaviour

psychologist: murray bowen

Question 4

chronosystem

Answer 4

• patterning of enviornmental events and transitions over the life course, as well as sociohistorical circumstances

Question 5

family system: basic concepts

Answer 5

• nuclear family emotional system: describes 4 basic relationship patterns that govern where problems are in a family
• differentiation of self: people with low self-differentiation have trouble distinguishing themselves from the rest of the family unit
• triangles: when 2 people are involved in conflict, might pull another person into conflict
• family projection process: parents who have fears or emotional problems can pass those on to their children through projection
• multigenerational transmission process: family patterns repeat through generations
• emotional cutoff: when someone avoids issues they have with their family by cutting them off
• sibling position: birth order affects personality and relationships
• societal emotional process

Question 6

bronfenbrenner ecological system

Answer 6

• children’s development is best understood by examining context of child’s enviornment
• ecological theory enphasises enviornmental factors as playing major role to development
• microsystem
• mesosystem
• exosystem
• macrosystem
• chronosystem

Question 7

mesosystem

Answer 7

• interactions between different parts of a person’s microsystem
• development could be affected in negative way if the different elements of microsystem were working against another

Question 8

life cycles of a family

Answer 8

1. unattached young adult
2. newly married couple
3. family with young children
4. family with adolescents
5. launching family
6. family in later years

Question 9

microsystem

Answer 9

• individual (family, neighbours, peers, school)
• institutions + groups that most immediately and directly impact child’s development
• most influential level

Question 10

exosystem

Answer 10

• setting that doesn’t involve the person as an active participant but still affects them
• includes decisions that have bearing on the person but in which they have no participation in the decision making process