There are 4 key systems influencing human development: 
- microsystem- individual, parents, teachers, peers
- mesosystem- relationships between multiple microsystems (e.g. parent-teacher differing expectations)
- exosystem- systems that affect but do not contain an individual (e.g. SES, parental employment and networks, public policy and education, the media)
- macrosystem- overarching sociocultural values and beliefs

Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory of Child Development

Ethology is the study of behavior from an evolutionary context. In particular, studying behavior in terms of adaption and survival value. In these theories, researchers believe physical characteristics and patterns of behavior are shaped by evolutionary adaptions.

Ethological Theories in Child Development

Main points that encompass evolutionary theories in child development:
- natural selection 
-  adaptation (genes, brain size, etc.)
- the concept of "play" being evolutionary

Evolutionary Theories in Child Development

- Ethological Theories
- Evolutionary Theories
- The Bioecological Model

Haverford College in Pennsylvania

Ecological theories of development involves taking an evolutionary approach to a child's social development as well as looking at the impact  various environmental  levels have on development over time.

Ecological Theories of Development

Siegler, R., Saffran, J. R., Eisenberg, N., Deloache, J., &amp; Gershoff, E. (2017). How Children Develop (5th ed.). Worth Publishers, Inc.

Learn Before

Related

Learn After