Development-Random Facts

Focus is on positive things/affirmations, things that actively make you focus on the positive things...ie gratitude activities such as writing three things to be thankful for nightly.

Emphasizes the interaction of genes & the enviornment on development. The gene pool is a determining factor of development. Explores if there is a genetic predisposition that has left them prone to that behavior. And the direct, systematic influence that enviornmental forces have, over time on genes.

• I. Microsystem: The person in individual setting (ie child at home, child at school)
• II. Mesosystem: The ability to discern the difference betwn 2 microsystems w/n a system
• III. Ecosystem: The system that is directly related to child (ie work impacts how they live which impacts the child)
• IV. Macrosystem: Is the larger system that holds all the other systems