CH.'S 6 & 7 Flashcards
What is responsiveness?
Degree to which parents are sensitive to needs, and express love and warmth.
What is demandingness?
Degree to which parents set rules and expectations and require children to comply with them.
Define self esteem.
A person’s overall sense of worth and well being.
Define social comparison.
How persons view themselves in relation to others, regarding status, abilities, or achievements.
Define self concept.
Peoples view and evaluation of themselves.
Define seriation.
Ability to arrange things in a logical order, such as shortest to longest, thinnest to thickest, or lightest to darkest.
What is concrete operational stage?
(In Piaget’s theory) The cognitive stage in which children become capable of using mental operations.
Define media multitasking.
Simultaneous use of more than one media form, such as playing an electronic game while watching tv.
What is divorce mediation?
Arrangement in which a professional mediator meets with divorcing people to help them negotiate an agreement.
Define coercive cycle.
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.
Define family process.
Quality of the relationships between family members.
Define coregulation.
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.
Define ambivalence.
Emotional state of experiencing two contradictory emotions at once.
What is experience sampling method? (ESM)
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.
Define selective attention.
Ability to focus attention on relevant information and disregard what is irrelevant.
Define instrumental aggression.
Type of aggression when a child wants something and uses aggressive behavior or words to get it.
Define conservation. Think water cups
Mental ability to understand that the quantity of a substance remains the same even if its appearance changes.
Define overcontrol.
Trait of having excessive emotional self regulation.
Define reciprocal/ bidirectional effects.
In relations between two persons, the principle that each of them effects the other.
Define undercontrol.
Trait of having inadequate emotional self regulation.
What is theory of mind?
Ability to understand thinking processes in oneself and in others.
Define gender schema.
Gender based cognitive structure for organizing and processing information, comprising expectations for males and females appearance and behavior.
Define classification.
Ability to understand that objects can be part of more than one cognitive group.
Define externalizing problems?
Problems that involve others, such as aggression.
