When students have studied the material in the chapter, they will be able to answer the following:

• Introduction
1. What is known about the effects of environmental deprivation on children's development?
2. What aspects of the contexts provided by the Williams, Gordon, and Polonius families seem likely to be especially significant for their children's development?
3. How have the contexts in which you grew up influenced your development?
• An overview of developmental contexts
4. Describe Bronfenbrenner's model of developmental contexts and explain what is included at each level in the model.
• The child's biological makeup
5. Explain the three basic components of the child's biological makeup and how they interact.
• The child's immediate environment
6. Explain how the family, day care, peers, neighborhoods, and schools influence children's development.
• The social and economic context
7. Summarize the ways American families have changed in recent decades and how these changes have affected children's development.
8. Explain how socioeconomic status influences children's development.
• The cultural context
9. What is the same about child rearing across all cultures? What varies?
10. Summarize the impacts of culture on children's development.
• Development as context
11. Explain two ways in which development itself provides a context for further development.
12. Contexts in interaction
13. Explain how contexts interact to influence children's development.