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Human ecology theory concentrates on this.
What is the interaction and interdependence of humans with the environment?
This is an organism that operates as a unit in interaction with its environment.
What is a human ecosystem?
According to ecological theory, overarching institutions of the culture are found in this.
What is the macrosystem?
This is an organism that operates as a unit in interaction with its environment.
What is a human ecosystem?
Instead of within person dynamics, systems theory focuses on this.
What are dynamics/interactions occurring between people?
These are reiterative patterns of stable sets of activities. This could also refer to specialized roles or professions.
What are niches?
This "consists of the totality of the physical, biological, social, economic, political, aesthetic, and structural surroundings for human beings and the context for their behavior and development."
What is an environment?
This system represents the link that exists between the microsystems.
What is the mesosystem?
According to human ecological theory, quality of life is determined by the adequacy of this and this.
What are basic needs and the attainment of goals?
This is the name of the person who developed General Systems Theory.
Who is Ludwig von Bertalanffy?
This is a core concept of ecological theory and represents the ways in which humans modify their systems to accommodate to and/or alter their environments to obtain particular outcomes.
What is adaptation?
These are the requirements essential for survival and adaptation. Three types of these include having, relating, and being.
What are needs?
This system represents the settings or institutions NOT directly experienced by the person, but which affect his/her development in less direct ways.
What is the exosystem?
These have the capacity to enhance possibilities for individuals and families as well as impose limits and constraints on their behavior and development.
What are environments?
This refers to the notion that different end states can occur from the same initial conditions. Similar events (e.g., natural disaster) can prime depression or trauma as well as growth or happiness.
What is equipotentiality?
According to the EXPLORING text this is one area of research and application of human ecological theory that was discussed.
What are parent and parent-child relationships OR adolescence/delinquency OR violence and abuse OR bullying OR program development/intervention?
These are two of the six basic assumptions of human ecological theory.
What are human beings and groups are a product of both genetics and environment, humans are dependent on their environment to meet their biological needs, as social beings humans are dependent on others, human beings are finite, such that time is both a limitation and a resource, humans organize their interactions within their spatial environments, and human behavior can be comprehended on at least two levels: individual and population?
This system represents the immediate environment of the person.
What is the microsystem?
In Brofenbrenner’s final work, which was published the year he died, he changed from the use of ecology to the use of this term.
What is Bioecology?
This refers to how a system is limited to what it can and cannot do based on its structure.
What is structural determinism?
He was one of the most well-known contributors to the field ecological theory of human development. He examined the interface of children and their multiple environments. There were three phases in the development of his theory of human development.
Who is Urie Bronfenbrenner?
These are what each letter of the PPCT model stand for.
What are process-person-context-time?
This is a common criticism of human ecological theory.
What is it is difficult to test using traditional research methods?
These help us understand what is profitable, what is beautiful, and what is correct and decent behavior about a person or an environment.
What are values?
You knew it would be in here somewhere! These are the six basic assumptions of general systems theory.
What are the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, individual and family behavior must be understood in context, the family is a goal-seeking system, a family is a self-reflexive and self-regulating system continually influenced by feedback, family systems are defined by their communication, and the locus of pathology is not within the person but is a system dysfunction?