Bronfenbrenner Flashcards
1
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What is Bronfenbrenner’s theory?
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Ecological model. Everything that surrounds a child affects their development.
2
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What is the importance of the individual and the environment?
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Eg. Good health care, good influences, all these things influence an individual’s developmental outcomes
3
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What are the 5 environmental systems?
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- Microsystem
- Mesosytem
- Exosystem
- Macrosystem
- Chronosystem
4
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Microsystem
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Immediate smallest environment. Eg. family, home, school, etc
5
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Mesosystem
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Connections eg. between home and school
6
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Excosystem
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Indirect environments eg. links that don’t directly relate to the individual like parents work place.
7
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Macrosystem
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Social culture valves eg. distance culture values, economic systems.
8
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Chronosystem
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Changes over time eg. Change of family structure, employment status.
