Module 8: Ecological Model

Question 1

Who developed the Ecological Model?

Answer 1

Bronfenbrenner

Question 2

Ecological Model

Answer 2

+ child is not seen as just an outcome of development; the child is an active shaper of development
+ active

Question 3

How can one understand development according to the ecological model?

Answer 3

to understand development, we must see the child within the context of multiple environments surrounding

Question 4

Microsystem

Answer 4

+ everyday environment; interactions with family, friends, etc.
+ have direct contact with the child
+ other people can influence the child and their environment and can also change the beliefs and actions of other people
+ very personal and crucial for fostering and supporting the child’s development

Question 5

Mesosystem

Answer 5

+ linkages between home and school or
between the family or peer groups (events that links the microsystems)
+ Interaction between child microsystems

Question 6

Exosystem

Answer 6

+ family composition, place of residence, or parents’ employment, and larger events
+ incorporates other formal and informal social structures, which do not themselves contain the child but indirectly influence them as these social structures affect one of the microsystem
+ child is not involved and are external to their experience but nonetheless affect them anyway

Question 7

Macrosystem

Answer 7

+ overarching cultural patterns such as dominants beliefs, ideologies, and economic and political systems
+ how cultural elements affect a child’s
development

Question 8

Chronosystem

Answer 8

+ dimension of time
+ consists of all environmental changes that occur over the lifetime that influence development
+ including major life transitions and historical events
+ non-normative events