GRT 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ecological Systems Theory, Social Forces, Environmental Design
20 Aug 2016
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September 25th 2015 (continued from last class you weren"t there i don"t think) Structure of the environment and reciprocity in development. The environment includes those contexts and conditions which occur outside individuals and have the probability of in uencing the individual and eliciting responses from them. We do not live in a bubble; other people in uence us and we in uence other people. The environment is a multilevel, multidimensional hierarchical system which ranges from physical features to speci c proximal transactions. Context is always shifting; the abilities a person needs to navigate their environment change. People fall way more in the winter. The environment operates not only in space (objective environment) and within the individual (subjective environment), but also across time (temporal environment) Adults both shape and are shaped by their environment. Components of the environment which in uence physical aging: Physical (architecture, natural environment, products and technology) Transactional approach: assumes an interdependence of the person and the environment.
