Unit 1/Bronfenbrenner

Question 1

What is the microsystem?

Answer 1

• network of soical relationships and physcial settings a person is involved with everyday

–> includes family, friends, peers

• shapes human development in that a person has direct contact with them at all times
• the nature of the systen is that the indivual will help contact these settings

Question 2

what is the mesosytem? what does it do?

Answer 2

• a relationship between the systems

Question 3

what is the exosystem?

Answer 3

• social structures that directly or indirectly affcet a persons life. (e.g school, work, media)

Question 4

what is the macrosystem?

Answer 4

• causde by the ideology in the soicety or the influences the indivual directly but the indiucal has less choice in his settings

Question 5

chronosystem

Answer 5

-develops later in life
-comples of all the experiances a person hsa during their lifestme
- includes enviormental events, major life transitions, and historical events