Ch.12 - Social Development: Family Influences

Question 1

The most important in maintaining marital satisfaction after a birth is

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Higher levels of parental involvement

Question 2

Social development begins

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Before birth; babies turn their heads towards human speech

Question 3

Who coined the ecological theory of contextual relationships?

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Bronfenbrenner

Question 4

Babies’ attachment patterns can be inferred by

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Signaling and approach behaviours

Question 5

Examples of signaling behaviour are

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Crying, cooing, babbling

Question 6

Examples of ‘approach’ behaviour are

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Smiling, clinging, gazing

Question 7

Ainsworth identified four stages of attachment:

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Secure, ambivalent, avoidant, disorganised

Question 8

Can attachment styles be passed on?

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Attachment is significantly inter generational. 50% of grandmothers’ attachment styles are evident in their grandchildren

Question 9

Security of attachment with one parent is inferred by

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Attachment to the other parent

Question 10

How can culture impact on attachment?

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Individualistic cultures leave it to the parents to form their own parenting style

Question 11

Individualists are reluctant to

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Reprimand others’ children

Question 12

What four factors determine parenting types?

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Control, clarity of communication, maturity demands, nurturance

Question 13

What are the four parenting styles?

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Authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, uninvolved

Question 14

Authoritative parents are

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Firm but flexible, rewarding, clear and child centered

Question 15

Authoritarian parents are

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Inflexible, controlling, cold and demand obedience, unclear and psychologically controlling

Question 16

Permissive parents…

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Lack willingness to control, put children in control of their own development despite their lack of developmental ability

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Uninvolved parents are

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Like permissive parents but emotionally detached

Question 18

Cultural studies have investigated authoritarian parenting style and found

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It is damaging no matter what

Question 19

Authoritative parents practice

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Behaviour control

Question 20

Authoritarian parents practice

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Psychological control

Question 21

Social convoy refers to

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Lifelong social networks