We learned in our text that, according to Bandura, children have an active role in their own development by means of reciprocal determinism (Siegler, DeLoache, Eisenberg & Saffran, 2014, p. 354). The main idea behind reciprocal determinism is that each person has their own individual traits that effect the way they behave and interact with the world, this in turn influences how the surrounding worlds treats them.
In the world of bioecological theory, our environment consists of a series of structures that are all connected or encapsulated (Siegler et al., 2014, p. 366). These structures known as the microsystem, mesosystem, ecosystems, and macrosystem, and chronosystsm, all influence our development (Siegler et al., 2014, p. 220).…