Biopsychosocial Framework
A useful way to organize the biological, psychological, and sociocultural forces on human development.
Life-cycle Forces
Reflect differences in how the same event affects people of different ages.
Sociocultural Forces
Include interpersonal, societal, cultural, and ethnic factors that affect development.
Psychological Forces
- Relationships, Culture, Social Status, and etc.
Include all internal perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and personality factors that affect development.
- Intelligence, self-esteem, personality, self-efficacy.
Biological Forces
Include all genetic and health-related factors that affect development.
- Prenatal development, brain maturation, puberty, menopause, facial wrinkling, change in cardiovascular functioning, and Genetics.
Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological Model
THESE
FORCES
INTERACT!
Macrosystem
Microsystem
>is the larger cultural context in which the microsystem, mesosystem, and exosystem are embedded.
>is an immediate physical and social environment in which the person interacts face-to-face with other people and influences and is affected by them.
Culture- the shared understandings and way of life of a people, including beliefs and practices concerning the nature of humans
-Family, daycare center, peer groups
Chronosystem
>the idea that changes in people and their environments occur in a time frame
Exosystem
Mesosystem
>consists of the interrelationships or linkages between two or more microsystems.
>consists of linkages involving social settings that individuals do not experience directly but that can still influence their development.
-children can be affected by how their parents’ day at work went , losing of job of parents
-marital conflict in the family (one microsystem) could make a child withdraw from staff members and other children at the day care center (a second microsystem)
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How Do We Explain Development?
Biological Forces
Life-cycle Forces
Psychological Forces
Sociocultural Forces
Basic Forces in Human Developmentt