Give examples of the following: microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem

What will be an ideal response?


Microsystem: parents, peers, teachers; Mesosystem: relations among Microsystems, such as parent-teacher conferences, school-community interactions on field trips; Exosystem: parents' work places, poverty and unemployment of parents, school board; Macrosystem: cultural values, such as expectations for independence of children, belief in co-sleeping of parents and children, importance of mother staying at home with children; Chronosystem: time since divorce for family, historical events such as Depression.

Psychology

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A. interpreting information and underlying meaning B. recalling many details C. memorizing long lists of words D. perceptual speed

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a. each new object must possess all the necessary features to be considered acceptable members of a category b. category membership is determined by the particular set of core features an object possesses c. each new object is compared to the existing members of the category d. each new object is compared to the best or most representative member of the category

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