influente culturale asupra dezvoltarii

Question 1

What is the ecological theory?

Answer 1

The environment influences the individual in many ways and individuals can affect their own environment

Question 2

What are the 5 environmental systems that interact with each other and affect a person?

Answer 2

1. The microsystem
2. Mesosystem
3. Exosystems
4. Macrosystem
5. Chronosystem

Question 3

What is the microsystem

Answer 3

institutions and groups (family, school)

Question 4

What is the mesosystem

Answer 4

Mesosystem: Interconnections between the microsystem e.g. interactions between family and teachers

Question 5

What is the exosystem

Answer 5

Exosystems: links between broader social setting and the individual’s immediate context e.g. child’s experience at home may be influenced by the parent’s experience at work

Question 6

What is the macrosystem?

Answer 6

Macrosystem: attitudes and ideologies of the cultures; cultural contexts; economic status; values

Question 7

What is the chronosystem?

Answer 7

environmental events over the life course e.g. divorce

Question 8

Heritability across cultures:

Answer 8

Culture may be an enhancing or limiting factor for genetic expression
If education is equalised then heritability for achievement is higher = genes explain more differences between people in that population