Vocabulary 3

3. Physical and psychological changes in the individual over a lifetime
8. The use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature.
9. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, the environment provided by the interrelationships among the various settings of the microsystem
10. importance of cultural tools, symbols, and ways of thinking that the child acquires from more knowledgeable members of the community
12. An essential support for a basic structure underlying a system, concept, or text.
13. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, the immediate environment provided in such settings as the home, school, workplace, and neighborhood

1. versus nurture- Historically, the theoretical controversy over whether development is the result of the child's genetic endowment or environmental influences
2. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, the constantly changing temporal component of the environment that can influence development
4. Sets of ideas or propositions that help to organize or explain observable phenomena
5. The act of interfering with the outcome
6. The action or state of including or of being included within a group or structure
7. policies- Programs and plans established by local, regional, or national public and private organizations and agencies designed to achieve a particular social purpose or goal
11. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, major historical events and the broad values, practices, and customs shared by a culture