KINE 4650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ecological Systems Theory, Biopsychosocial Model
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Bronfenbrenner, if you want to understand something, try to change it. All physical, cognitive, emotional, and psychological changes that humans undergo over a lifetime. Changes must be systematic and organized, and successive. Head start program students in disadvantaged student, they"re already behind with other students. Do an intervention at the age 3 and they will be on par. Person to person interation, active, evolving biopsychosocial human organism and the persons, objects, and symbols in its immediate external environment. Microsystem: this is where the most fundamental happens. Mesosystem: the interrelations among major settings containing the developing person at a particular point in his or her life interactions between family, school, peer group). Chronosystem time: time has a prominent place in human development.