Flashcards on Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory and Educational Support
Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory & Educational Support
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Bronfenbrenner
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Card 1
Question: Who was Urie Bronfenbrenner and when was he born?
Answer: Urie Bronfenbrenner was a psychologist born in April 1917 in Russia.
Card 2
Question: At what age and in what year did Bronfenbrenner's family move to the USA?
Answer: They moved to the USA in 1922 when Urie was 6 years old.
Card 3
Question: What profession did Bronfenbrenner's father have and where did he work after moving to New York?
Answer: His father was a neuropathologist who worked at a facility for people with physical and cognitive disabilities.
Card 4
Question: What childhood observation influenced Bronfenbrenner's ideas about development?
Answer: He observed that people labeled 'cognitively disabled' seemed to improve their IQs over time when interacting with his family and others, suggesting e
Card 5
Question: What educational degrees did Bronfenbrenner complete and when did he finish his initial psychology degree?
Answer: He completed a psychology degree in 1938, which led to a Master's degree and a PhD.
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Question: What was the subject of Bronfenbrenner's dissertation and why is it significant?
Answer: His dissertation studied the development of children within their peer group, marking the beginning of his ecological systems theory.
Card 7
Question: What role did Bronfenbrenner serve in during World War II and when?
Answer: He served as a field psychologist from 1942 to 1946.
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Question: When did Bronfenbrenner become a professor of psychology and human development?
Answer: He became a professor in 1948.
Card 9
Question: What major early childhood program did Bronfenbrenner help establish and in what year?
Answer: He helped establish the Head Start program in 1965, an early childhood education program for children from low-income families.
Card 10
Question: Why was Bronfenbrenner dissatisfied with child research conducted in the 1940s?
Answer: He felt studying children in labs or clinical environments produced invalid data because children reacted strangely in unfamiliar settings and researc