3/9 Lecture Flashcards

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Authoritative parenting

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warm, involved, considers child’s wishes&opinions, set clear standards, in firm, confronts disobedience, high expectations

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Authoritarian parenting

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little warmth, does not ask for child’s opinions, enforces rules, but doesn’t explain, shows displeasure, punitive discipline, views child as “wild”

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Permissive

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moderately warm, glorifies free expressions of impulses and desires, does not set or enforce clear rules, ignore bad behavior, yields to coercion

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Uninvolved

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self-centered, unresponsive, tries to minimize interactions with the child, doesn’t monitor where the child is or whether he/she is safe, may be depressed and needy

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Child of Authoritative

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  • Preschool: energetic and friendly, socially competent
  • Childhood: high cognitive & social competence
  • Adolescence: high self-esteem & academic competence
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Child of Authoritarian

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  • Preschool: conflicted & irritable; fearful & moody
  • Childhood: average cognitive & social competence
  • Adolescence: average academic, more conforming
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Child of Permissive

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Preschool: impulsive & aggressive

  • Childhood: low cognitive & social competence
  • Adolescence: poor self-control, more drug use
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Child of Uninvolved

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  • Preschool: aggressive, noncompliant, moody
  • Childhood: disruptive, poor, classroom performance
  • Adolescence: hostile, selfish, rebellious
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Sources of variation in parenting styles

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  • Quality marriage
  • Parent personality
  • Parent mental health
  • Parent’s own experiences as children
  • Parent genetics
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Child themselves in parenting style

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  • Parent effects model: parent -> child
  • Child effects model: child-> parent
  • Transactional model: child parent
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Low socioeconomic status

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On average:

  • Stress obedience and respect for authority
  • Be more restrictive and authoritarian
  • Reason with their children less frequently
  • Show less warmth
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Why low socioeconomic status

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  • Working more our hours, being more strict
  • Stress for child care qualities
  • Stress for marriage
  • Focus on this strategies with less work
  • Pushing their kids hard to get them have better outcome
  • Kinds of job those SES people have, usually respecting authority; tendency to believe that your kids will have the similar jobs, it is important for your kids to understand how to respect the boss
  • Possibly adaptive: want the kids to stay safe
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Asian and Asian-American Parents

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Chinese parents reported:

  • lower warmth and acceptance
  • more use of physical coercion
  • This kids have more cultural influence believing that’s a form of love so they do well socially and academically
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African-American Parents

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African-American youth

  • Spanking & other power-assertive tactics do not lead to heightened aggression & antisocial conduct
  • “No nonsense” and signs of concern leads to good outcomes
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Better childcare is associated with…

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  • Higher levels of compliance
  • Better sociability and peer relations
  • Better attention regulation
  • Lower rates of negative affect and behavior problems
  • Enhances children’s language, reading and math skills
  • Tend to be attended by middle and upper class kids
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Parental vs nonparental care depends on….

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  • Did parent want to be a caregiver
  • Is the parent a good caregiver
  • Is the nonparental caregiver a good caregiver
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Abercedarian Project

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  • In North Carolina
  • Randomly assigned them into high quality child care from age 0-5 years old
  • 18 months: higher scores on mental tests
  • Ages 12-15, the intervention group had higher average scores on mental tests including reading and math from primary grades through middle adolescence
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Results at 21 years old

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  • Longer in schooling
  • Graduated from college or university
  • Have first child after high school at 19 years old compared to 17 years old in control group
  • Higher employment
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Donor Insemination Families

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DI children vs children with 2 bio parents equal in:

  • Behavioral problems
  • Emotional development
  • Scholastic achievement
  • Peer relations
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Gay & Lesbian Families

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Do not support these:

  • No more likely to be homosexual
  • They are as mature and well-adjusted
  • No differences in cognition, emotion, or morality
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Parents in Divorce

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  • Custodial mothers can sometimes become edgy, impatient, and insensitive to child’s needs; coercive parenting
  • Noncustodial fathers can be permissive and indulgent
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Children in Divorce

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  • In general, tough on kids at all ages
  • In long term, most kids do OK
  • Stable 1-parent home>conflict-ridden 2-parent home
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Adoption

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  • Much higher rates of psychological problems
  • externalizing and learning disorders (ADHD, Conduct, Substance)
  • Suicidal behavior, lower cognitive, poorer school performance
  • Depends on country of origin (Korean adoptees in Sweden)
  • Searching for birth parents between 1/3 and 2/3 search for parents; often female search; searchers have more adjustment issues
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Individualistic cultures

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  • Encourage influence
  • Influence requires immediate action & increases in arousal
  • Should value high positive arousal states
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Collectivist cultures

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  • Encourage adjustment
  • Adjustment requires suspended action & decreases in arousal
  • Should value low positive arousal states
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Do cultural differences in ideal affect emerge early in life?

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  • Saw pictures and heard about a child behaving in an excited manner and child behaving in a calm way
  • European American most likely to pick excited activity while Taiwanese children are more likely to pick calm activity
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Are differences in ideal affect culturally transmitted?

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  • Identified top storybooks for kids in the U.S. and Taiwan
  • Coded for calm/excited expressions, smile size, and arousal level of activities
  • American have more excited expressions, higher level of arousal, and higher smile width than Taiwanese children
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Can exposure to storybook content alter ideal affect?

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  • EA, AA and TC
  • Random assignment to a calm or exciting story condition
  • Show me your ideal playground
  • Which culture group does not matter but which kinds of book that you have read
  • Reading excited content-> Prefer excited activities
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Self-Concept

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EA and Chinese

  • Tell us about four personal events
  • # of other vs self recollections
  • European American (Individualistic) are more likely to talk about themselves while Chinese children (Collectivist) are more likely to talk about themselves and others
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Early Social Cognition

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1-2 years old

  • Middle class, rural Canada: parents go to work, child care
  • Traditional small-scale community in rural Peru: stay with mum during days
  • Traditional small-scale community in rural India: stay with mum during days
  • No differences in imitation, helping, gaze-following, collaboration, and joint attention