CH.'S 6 & 7

Question 1

What is responsiveness?

Answer 1

Degree to which parents are sensitive to needs, and express love and warmth.

Question 2

What is demandingness?

Answer 2

Degree to which parents set rules and expectations and require children to comply with them.

Question 3

Define self esteem.

Answer 3

A person’s overall sense of worth and well being.

Question 4

Define social comparison.

Answer 4

How persons view themselves in relation to others, regarding status, abilities, or achievements.

Question 5

Define self concept.

Answer 5

Peoples view and evaluation of themselves.

Question 6

Define seriation.

Answer 6

Ability to arrange things in a logical order, such as shortest to longest, thinnest to thickest, or lightest to darkest.

Question 7

What is concrete operational stage?

Answer 7

(In Piaget’s theory) The cognitive stage in which children become capable of using mental operations.

Question 8

Define media multitasking.

Answer 8

Simultaneous use of more than one media form, such as playing an electronic game while watching tv.

Question 9

What is divorce mediation?

Answer 9

Arrangement in which a professional mediator meets with divorcing people to help them negotiate an agreement.

Question 10

Define coercive cycle.

Answer 10

Pattern in relations between parents and children in which child’s disobedient behavior evokes harsh responses from parents, which in turn makes child more resistant to parental control, evoking even harsher responses.

Question 11

Define family process.

Answer 11

Quality of the relationships between family members.

Question 12

Define coregulation.

Answer 12

Relationship between parents and children in which parents provide broad guidelines for behavior but children are capable of an amount of independent, self directed behavior.

Question 13

Define ambivalence.

Answer 13

Emotional state of experiencing two contradictory emotions at once.

Question 14

What is experience sampling method? (ESM)

Answer 14

Research method that involves having people wear beepers, they are beeped at random times during the day and record characteristics of their experience at that moment.

Question 15

Define selective attention.

Answer 15

Ability to focus attention on relevant information and disregard what is irrelevant.

Question 16

Define instrumental aggression.

Answer 16

Type of aggression when a child wants something and uses aggressive behavior or words to get it.

Question 17

Define conservation. Think water cups

Answer 17

Mental ability to understand that the quantity of a substance remains the same even if its appearance changes.

Question 18

Define overcontrol.

Answer 18

Trait of having excessive emotional self regulation.

Question 19

Define reciprocal/ bidirectional effects.

Answer 19

In relations between two persons, the principle that each of them effects the other.

Question 20

Define undercontrol.

Answer 20

Trait of having inadequate emotional self regulation.

Question 21

What is theory of mind?

Answer 21

Ability to understand thinking processes in oneself and in others.

Question 22

Define gender schema.

Answer 22

Gender based cognitive structure for organizing and processing information, comprising expectations for males and females appearance and behavior.

Question 23

Define classification.

Answer 23

Ability to understand that objects can be part of more than one cognitive group.

Question 24

Define externalizing problems?

Answer 24

Problems that involve others, such as aggression.

Question 25

Define bullying.

Answer 25

Pattern of maltreatment of peers, including aggression, repetition, and power imbalance.

Question 26

Define social information processing. (SIP)

Answer 26

In social encounters, evaluations of others intentions, motivations, and behavior.

Question 27

Define selective association.

Answer 27

The principle that people tend to prefer being around others who are like themselves.