Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Model is partly made up of Proximal and Distal processes, as well as Demand characteristics. Proximal processes are interactions between a person and their immediate external environment, all developments are a function of these processes. Distal processes are anything outside the immediate environment that modifies proximal processes. Demand characteristics are personality traits, which every child is born with, could be considered introvert or extrovert. There are also many levels of environment included in this theory that influence a person's development, such as, microsystems, mesosystems, exosystems and macrosystems. The microsystem is considered the immediate environment where all the proximal processes occur, for example, family, school, peer groups or workplaces. The mesosystem are relationships among the microsystems, such as, relations between home and school, school and workplace, etc. The Exosystem is setting or people that affect items in the microsystem, for example, for a child it would be the relation between the home and the parent’s workplace. Lastly is the macrosystem, which is the culture, law and government, such as, Obamacare. For this paper I am going to talk about how Bronfenbrenner’s theory has been used in my life, specifically when deciding on a career choice. This paper is made up of Bronfenbrenner’s theory, my opinions and how it applies to myself. My current major at Pittsburg State University is Mathematics with a minor in Early Childhood Development. I know that the two seem to be completely different, but I love math and I love children. To begin, math has always been a strong suit for myself. Ever since I was younger, even in elementary school, I would be enrolled in a higher level of math. Once middle school hit I started to level out with everyone else, and then continued to be ahead as I entered high school. I have many family member that have been math teachers, grade school teachers or some kind of job environment that had something to do with math at some point in time. I also had many family members who were just naturally good at mathematics, which helped make things easier on myself. I never had much interest in working in math until I got older and realized I probably wouldn’t like to do much else. I definitely didn’t think that I would be working with math and children at the same time, but as of right now that looks about where I’m headed. To begin, let’s start with the proximal processes of my life. Basically, everything in my life has brought me to having the proximal processes that I do today, coming from the persons, objects and symbols in my immediate environment. This could be described as my family, movies, school, books, whatever. I would say that family and math itself would be the biggest part of my proximal processes. Next, the distal processes, which proximal processes are modified by. The distal processes in my life could be considered as the genes that I inherit from family. If it weren’t for the family I have and the abundance of math excellers, I may not like math. If not for growing up the way that I had, who knows what else I could be interested in today. Last