Question

A child who lives in a stressful home environment is fearful when interacting with other children in kindergarten, despite the teacher's efforts to encourage her. She is increasingly ignored by her peers and as a result does not develop skills in initiating play. Her family moves, she starts first grade at a new school, and she is ignored by peers and picked on by a bully, who is easily able to make her fearful and upset. The best term to describe this developmental pattern is __________.

Answer 1

a developmental cascade

Step-by-step explanation:

Developmental cascade: It refers to the increasing consequences for many interactions and transaction development that occurs in a developing system and results in a lay-out effect across different levels, among the realm at the same level, and across various generations and systems.

The transactions and interactions that occur in developmental cascade exist within and between macroscopic i.e cultural and microscopic i.e biological factors constituting the system.

According to the question, the child is being affected by both microscopic and macroscopic factors.