Friendships Flashcards
(27 cards)
As children enter ________, their relationship and interactions with their parents shift.
middle childhood
In middle childhood, parents and adolescents are less likely to:
show one another overt affection.
Children are also less likely to use ______ behaviors to get what they want. Instead, they use _______.
coercive behaviors, language
Coercive behaviors include:
whining, yelling, or hitting
Parents are ______ severe with older children and are ______ critical of the mistakes they make. This is because the parents believe that children should now be __________.
more, more, more capable and responsible.
Common concerns of parents of children in middle childhood are:
their children’s academic achievement, how much they should be involved in their child’s school, how much the child should be expected to participate in family chores, and how much influence they should have in their child’s social life.
In middle childhood, parents influence their children’s behavior by______, _________, ______, or ______. __________ is less common.
reasoning with them, appealing to their self-esteem, appealing to their sense of humor, arousing guilt,
physical punishment
The process of negotiating and balancing the levels of control between the parent and the child in different areas of the child’s life is called:
coregulation
Coregulation is:
the process of negotiating and balancing the levels of control in different areas of the child’s life
Parents also influence their child’s social lives in an indirect manner by:
providing working models for how people should interact with one another.
An example of parental influence on children’s social life through a working model is:
coercive family interaction patterns.
________ (year) conducted a study where he collected information on the social behavior and social environments of over 200 boys aged 9 and 10 through interviews with their teachers, classmates, and families. _______ found that boys who were exposed to more coercive family experiences at home were the boys who were most likely to be rejected by their peers at school, show more aggression towards their peers, and behave badly in the classroom.
Thomas Dishion (1990)
Thomas Dishion (1990) conducted a study where:
he collected information on the social behavior and social environments of over 200 boys aged 9 and 10 through interviews with their teachers, classmates, and families. Dishion found that boys who were exposed to more coercive family experiences at home were the boys who were most likely to be rejected by their peers at school, show more aggression towards their peers, and behave badly in the classroom.
Maltreated children are at _____ risk for becoming aggressive.
greater
Alan Sroufe argues that:
children’s relationships with their families have a cascade effect on their relationships with their peers, and vice versa. Each provides the child with support to make the other relationship deeper and stronger. For example, a supportive family helps a child have the energy and skills needed to develop successful friendships.
Who argues that Alan Sroufe argues that children’s relationships with their families have a cascade effect on their relationships with their peers, and vice versa?
Alan Sroufe
Children whose parents have divorced are twice as likely to have:
academic, psychological, and social problems.
One reason why children are so strongly affected by divorce is that divorce is usually followed by:
a change in the children’s economical status
Developmentalists view divorce through a couple different lenses:
The crisis model, the chronic strain model, and the divorce-stress-adustment perspective.
A slightly different perspective is the selection perspective.
It is also possible there is a genetic component.
The crisis model is:
views divorce as a specific disturbance to which parents and children adjust over time
The chronic strain model is:
recognizes that ongoing hardships caused by the divorce may affect the children’s lives and adjustments for years to come
The divorce-stress-adjustment perspective is:
views marital dissolution not as a discrete event, but as a complex process that varies depending on the circumstances.
The selection perspective is:
A slightly different perspective of divorce which posits that the adjustment problems children have is not caused by the divorce itself so much as by the toxic family environment the children grew up in before the divorce
It is also possible there is a genetic component to divorce. What does this mean?
Children from divorced families might be more troubled because they have inherited predispositions from their troubled parents that place them at greater risk for a variety of problems. Again, here, the divorce itself is not believed to be the root of the problem.
