HDFS 1600 Mizzou Exam 1 UPDATED
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Who created the Ecological Systems Theory? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Urie
Bronfenbrenner
Individual - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- usually child-focused (age, gender)
Microsystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- in the bioecological model, the immediate
environment that an individual personally experiences
Exosystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Little to no direct participation, includes other
family members microsystems
EX. Parents workplace
Mesosystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Connections between the systems
EX. Parent teacher conference
Macrosystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Cultural norms, American laws, gender roles and
expectations
Social and cultural norms, values and attitudes
Chronosystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Where are you in a moment in history
Advantages of ecological perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Context matters in
development
-Systems mutually influence each other
-Cannot fully understand an individual or family with out at least acknowledging other
systems
-Helpful in interpreting intersactions
-Not value-laden
, Disadvantaged of ecological perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Not easy to apply
-No understanding of process
-Individually focused
Life Course Theory
5 Main Assumptions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Human agency within social constraints
-We have the ability to make decisions
- Social institutions influence our choices
2. Lifelong development
- All ages and stages are important to study
-Each age may interact with an event differently
3. Heterogeneity of experience
- Trajectories (the way people are moving through life)
- Transitions (change of state)
- Turning points (car accident) that change you trajectiories
4. Importance of time and place
- Timing
- Spacing (graduation, marriage, baby)
- Synchronicity (your life events match up with others)
- On-time or off time transitions
5. Interdependence
- Our decisions affect our family members and our family members decisions affect us
Family Systems Theory
System - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A set of interacting units with relationships among them
Family Systems Theory
Wholeness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Families are more than just the sum of its parts. The
family is not simply all of its members added together.
ex: siblings wouldn't necessarily be friends if they weren't related, but it works in the family
unit
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Who created the Ecological Systems Theory? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Urie
Bronfenbrenner
Individual - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- usually child-focused (age, gender)
Microsystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- in the bioecological model, the immediate
environment that an individual personally experiences
Exosystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Little to no direct participation, includes other
family members microsystems
EX. Parents workplace
Mesosystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Connections between the systems
EX. Parent teacher conference
Macrosystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Cultural norms, American laws, gender roles and
expectations
Social and cultural norms, values and attitudes
Chronosystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Where are you in a moment in history
Advantages of ecological perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Context matters in
development
-Systems mutually influence each other
-Cannot fully understand an individual or family with out at least acknowledging other
systems
-Helpful in interpreting intersactions
-Not value-laden
, Disadvantaged of ecological perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Not easy to apply
-No understanding of process
-Individually focused
Life Course Theory
5 Main Assumptions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Human agency within social constraints
-We have the ability to make decisions
- Social institutions influence our choices
2. Lifelong development
- All ages and stages are important to study
-Each age may interact with an event differently
3. Heterogeneity of experience
- Trajectories (the way people are moving through life)
- Transitions (change of state)
- Turning points (car accident) that change you trajectiories
4. Importance of time and place
- Timing
- Spacing (graduation, marriage, baby)
- Synchronicity (your life events match up with others)
- On-time or off time transitions
5. Interdependence
- Our decisions affect our family members and our family members decisions affect us
Family Systems Theory
System - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A set of interacting units with relationships among them
Family Systems Theory
Wholeness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Families are more than just the sum of its parts. The
family is not simply all of its members added together.
ex: siblings wouldn't necessarily be friends if they weren't related, but it works in the family
unit
