Bronfenbrenners Approach to Development

Question 1

What are the 6 levels in the model, starting from smallest.

Simultaneously influence individuals

Answer 1

Individual
Microsystem
Mesosystem
Exosystem
Macrosystem
Chronosystem

Question 2

What is the microsystem?

Answer 2

Everyday immediate environment. (family)

Question 3

What is the mesosystem?

Answer 3

Students to teachers, employees to bosses, friend to friends. Ex (Mother has bad day at office and short tempered with son at home)

Question 4

What is the exosystem?

Answer 4

Local government, community, schools, churches. Ex. (Quality of school affects childs cognitive development

Question 5

What is the macrosystem?

Answer 5

Represents larger cultural influences, society in general, types of governments, religious and political value systems. Ex. The value a culture places on education affects the people who live in that culture.

Question 6

What is the chronosystem

Answer 6

Underlies each of the previous system. Ex. Patterning of environmental events (9/11)