Final Flashcards
1
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What are the three purposes of this class?
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- Prepare us professionally
- Personal/familial relations
- Church/community callings
2
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Holland and Warner page 4, “This church…is always one generation away from ________
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Extinction
3
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In the Warner article: Karl Maeser – “Have the teachers do nothing that… the students can do for themselves”. What does that have to do with 336?
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Opportunities to teach
4
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What is the principle of ‘lived invitation’? Invitation to do so…our behavior.
- “Our behavior is permission to others to behave similarly, but it is more than that, it is an invite to do so” (Dollahite)
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“Our behavior is permission to others to behave similarly, but it is more than that, it is an invite to do so” (Dollahite)
5
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President Packer: What % of tithe goes to tuition?
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70% + (tuition and buildings, etc.)
6
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What are the first 4 of the 17 criteria for theory? (pg. 5 Smith and Hamon)
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- Richness of Ideas
- Clarity of Concepts
- Coherence of connections among concepts
- Simplicity or parsimony
7
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The 3 central features of theory are…
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“Assumptions, concepts, propositions” -empirically testable (pg. 1)
8
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Inductive vs deductive reasoning.
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- Deductive = deduce – reduce (big to small)
- Inductive = induce
9
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Social Science Standpoint: Propositions should be ___
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Testable
10
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What is a paradigm shift?
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An example would be how your perspective of someone can change based on learning more.
11
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The Generalized other is what?
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you think people are noticing you when they aren’t. Especially prominent in teenagers.
12
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Cooley’s Looking Glass Self is what?
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You tend to see yourself the way you think that others see you.
13
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Cortell Corollary:
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“Don’t be surprised if your child puts something before pleasing you if you don’t put your child first.” How does this quote relate to symbolic interactionism? The most important symbol is your behavior.
14
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Page 15: Thomas’ “definition of the situation”
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“If we define out situations as real, they are real in their consequences.”
15
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In structural functionalism, what are the male/female roles?
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(Instrumental and expressive)
Parent’s should have both characteristics
16
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The family has four major functions (in structural functionalism) list them.
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- Sexual
- Reproduction
- Socialization
- Economic
17
Q
Maxwell, “Discipleship”: How do we know if something is true?
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John 7:17–Live the doctrine -
18
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Maxwell scholarship is a form of ______
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worship
19
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Parent’s Log: What does James consider the greatest gift to his children?
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A good mother
20
Q
David Elkind- “The best things in life are _____
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slow
21
Q
What is the only theoretical perspective to actively acknowledge human agency?
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Life course perspective
22
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Who developed life course theory?
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Glen Elder and Tamara Haraven
23
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How many stages are there in developmental theory?
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8 stages. What is 1 potential problem? -Families can be in multiple stages.
24
Q
Know the 8 stages (page 76).
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Married couple Childrearing Preschool Age School Age Teenage Launching Center Middle Age Parents Aging family members
25
Development is reciprocal. In the parent/child context explain this.
You teach your child; they teach you.
26
How does ‘the letters to my daughter’ section in Parent’s Log relate to Family Developmental theory?
(8 stages, pages 22-25 in Parent’s Log).The theory helps us look ahead, prepare before you transition.
27
Stress is highest during _____
Transitions
| Transitions are tough, but help for growth
28
What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
Our thoughts affect our actions.
29
Family Stress theory and the ABC-X model.
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A = Stressors
B = Resources
C = Perceptions
X = Crisis
(Can be positive [bonadaption] or negative [maladaptation])
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30
What are the percentages of marital satisfaction with a new child?
4/6 = decline in marital satisfaction with new baby.
1/6 = Stay about the same in satisfaction
1/6 = Some couples’ satisfaction increases
(20 minutes of face time makes the difference)
31
Theories do 2 things
1. Urge us to pay attention to certain things
| 2. Implicitly invite us to ignore other things
32
Who developed family development theory and family stress theory?
Reuben Hill
33
Define maladaptation and bonadapation. (pg 122)
- maladaptation: coming out of a stress situation worse than before
- bonadaptation: coming out better than you were before
34
What is the most important resources we can have?
Social support (Family Stress chapter)
35
What is the breakdown of the 50% divorce statistic?
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40% first marriage for both
60% first marriage for one
75% have child 10-16 in re-marriage
20% LDS temple marriage
75+% Marriage started because of an affair
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36
Two persons are credited with developing attachment theory, who are they?
Bowlby and Ainsworth
37
What are the three major attachment styles? And describe each one of them.
secure-solid base, avoidant-clingy, and anxious-afraid of commitment)
38
The attachment chemical?
Oxytocin (The stress chemical? Cortisol)
39
Explain how an attachment theorist would respond to the statement: “There is nothing so beautiful as a love that can be taken for granted”.
They would say that’s a secure attachment.
40
Maslow pinnacle – self transcendence (highest point you can reach) v self actualization?
Achieving self-actualization means resting comfortably inside the boundaries of human psychology — accomplishing what is knowable and testable — while self-transcendence means pushing beyond them.
41
One idea all major theories agree on?
The first 6 years are salient-most important.
42
Family systems (3)?
Open (lots of family discussion, democratic, interaction with outsiders is permitted), closed (traditional, non-permeable close family, enmeshed), and random family systems (do what you want, not a lot of structure, disengaged). (pg 152)
43
The whole is...
greater than the sum of its parts. (family systems theory)
44
“The person is not the problem _____
the family is” - family systems thinking pg.147
45
Parent’s log Bulbs vs Blooms
Bulbs (values, deep, have character)
| Blooms (surface characteristics)-
46
Who developed ‘Human ecological theory?
Urie Brofenbrenner
47
Therapist’s Circle that represents family boundaries.
Triangulation between God, and spouses is healthy, between anyone else is unhealthy.
48
Humans are_____ (conflict theory)
self-oriented. (conflict theory assumption)
49
Resources are ____ (Conflict theory)
scarce. (conflict theory assumption)
50
Premarital sex and bar graph (might be an exception to the Hegalian Dialetic)
1967- 85%
1979-45%
2010-20%
51
View of most conflict theorists is that conflict is_____
beneficial
52
Pendulum swing or Hegelian Dialectic (Marx) is what? -
across history we tend to swing back and forth like a pendulum (see question 45)
53
What is something social exchange theory does not consider?
Love, charity, emotions
54
List 2 take home messages from “worlds apart” (Marks)
Personal experience doesn’t negate empirical data.
| Empirical data do not negate personal experience.
55
Two groups featured in conflict theory
(Haves and have not)
56
List 3 assumptions of social exchange theory.
- Humans are rational beings
- we are motivated by self-interest
- individuals are constrained by their choices
57
What is a major flaw of social exchange theory?
Doesn’t account for human feelings.
58
Norm of reciprocity is what?
- we give to others about the same we are given
59
(Granquist) God as an ____
God as an attachment figure
60
54) Several different levels of systems in human ecological theory. Name 3, give brief example of each (for example micro/macro).
-microsystem - nuclear family
(family, friends, classmates, teachers, neighbors and other people who have a direct contact with you)
-Mesosytem - work place (The mesosytem involves the relationships between the microsystems in one's life, like school)
-Exosystem - political system (The exosystem is the setting in which there is a link between the context where in the person does not have any active role, and the context where in is actively participating.)
-Macrosystem - (The macrosystem setting is the actual culture of an individual. The cultural contexts involve the socioeconomic status of the person and/or his family, his ethnicity or race and living in a still developing or a third world country)
61
Parent’s Log: “Kite analogy” in relation to attachment theory. (pg 69)
Page 69
62
You marry 3 people:
The person you think you’re marrying
The person you’re actually marrying
The person who whomever you are marrying will become
63
How many studies have shown (according to the APA brief) that children of gay and lesbian parents are at a disadvantage compared to children of heterosexual parents?
Zero.
64
What do scientists do with outliers in quantitative data? What principle does that decision reinforce?
Get rid of 'em
| Reductionism
65
What does James emphasize we should teach our kids?
Reading
66
“What is a positive aspect of reductionism? What is a potentially negative aspect of reductionism?”
- Positive - helps us to find the basic and fundamental truths buried underneath (simplifying)
- Negative - “Whom has history primarily address and discussed? Rich white guys - everyone else is reduced or eliminated out of the picture”... reductionism doesn’t take into account the people on each side of the bell curve.
67
Teleology- why we do what we do-motivations
Teleology- why we do what we do-motivations
68
If many theories don't account for agency then why do we study them as members of the church? What is the value in that? (TLAS Question)
We need to be able to understand the way that others think that aren't members, we need
to take the good from theories, and learn to speak the language of others scholars.
69
List something you learned form “We see what we seek”.
List something you learned form “We see what we seek”.
70
‘Zzt” part 2.
Increase of hormones with attraction can last 60 to 70 days, and then decrease.
71
Critique of article on gay parenting. Abstract contains 7 critiques. List 3.
Lack of APA statistical power
Lack of diverse samples
There was contradictory data
Absence of comparison groups
72
APA brief: How many studies suggest that children of lesbian or gay parents are at a disadvantage?
-zero
73
Frankl- what is the meaning of life?
- the meanings of life (i.e. depends) varies from person to person, moment to moment
“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
74
"If there is a meaning in life at all then there must be a meaning in suffering." Why?
Because so much of life is suffering.
Neil A. Maxwell that endured 3 diff. Forms of cancer said, "If life is the ultimate university then we must pass all the courses including and especially the courses in suffering.
75
Three important things learned from Frankl’s book?
1.
2.
3.
76
Frankl and statue of liberty quote: "I recommend that the statue of liberty on the east coast be supplemented by a statue of responsibility on the west coast." What does it mean?
They need to be connected so that we preserve the liberties of those that come after us
and so that we don't hurt others.
77
Parent’s Log, page 112. 3 things
If anything is to have any lasting value, it is worth the effort required to obtain it
The most important things we can give our children cannot be bought
By lavishing our children everything money can buy, we run the risk of communicating to them that they are entitled to the finer things for no other reason than they happen to be ours.
78
If objectivity is lost, why continue to research?
Pursuit of a perfect ideal can produce great results.
79
Which epistemology does the gospel add?
Revelation
80
Epistemology?
-How we know what we claim to know.
81
3 views of the world:
Empiricism, rationalism, and social constructionism.
| Which of these is most prevalent in social sciences today = social constructionism
82
Rationalism uses only what?
the mind thought experiments, thoughts. Descartes.
83
What important element does the gospel add to the nature vs. nurture debate?
Agency
84
Briefly define/describe ‘empiricism’:
only real experience is sensory. Egyptians 7 gates of the head. (Egyptians believed the gates were the various senses, eg. sight, hearing…)
85
Parent’s Log and Quality time.
Quality time is a function of quantity time. What does this mean? (future relationships).
86
Pick 3 individual level theories. List 1 major flaw for each.
Brent and Rich ch. 2
87
TLAS: Why are there 10 family theories?
No theory explains everything an individual does. No theory applies to everyone.
88
TLAS Philosopher Jasper (p. 9). Philosophy and theory.
“Neither philosophy nor theory are escapable"
89
TLAS Question: The facts of science themselves are theory laden. Page 5 Slife and Williams: What does this mean to you?
Page 5
90
4 branches of Feminism in the 60s*
- Liberal (work/place focus)
- Marxist (Housework/reproduction)
- Radical (Men are the problem)
- Cultural (valuing the feminine)
91
3 waves of feminism
The first wave (1830’s – early 1900’s): Women’s fight for equal contract and property rights
The second wave (1960’s-1980’s): Broadening the debate. Coming off the heels of World War II, the second wave of feminism focused on the workplace, sexuality, family and reproductive rights.
The third wave (1990’s – present): The “micropolitics” of gender equality. Today and unlike the former movements, the term ‘feminist’ is received less critically by the female population due to the varying feminist outlooks.
(Suffragette feminism - women pursuing the right to vote
60s: woodstock, hippies, abortion rights
1990s-Today- talking primarily about class, race, sexual orientation, anti-religion, gender is a social construction)
