Chapter 10: Family, Home, and Society Throughout the Life Span Flashcards
Bronfenbrenner constructed a model depicting the ____ of develoment and their interrelationships as a series of embedded, concentric circles.
systems
The innermost circles is the ______, in which the child directly participates. i.e. family, day care, or school
microsystem
A child’s experience in one microsystem affects his or her experinces in another microsystem through the ______.
meosystem
i.e. a child whose parents are divorcing may start doing poorly in school
The ____ is where interrelationsips between events in contexts in which the child does not directly participate affect the child.
exosystem
i.e. a parent who is experiencing stress at work may interact less with his or her child at home
The _____ affects each of the other systems. It is the outermost area that encircles all of the other systems in the model.
macrosystem
The macrosytem is the ______ context and it contains the values and attitudes shared by the members of teh culture.
sociolcultural
i.e. parenting customs vary across different cultures. these customs affect the child’s experinces in the microsystem of the family
_____ theory is the theorectical perspective that views the family as an organized, whole unit with integrated parts.
family systems theory
Members of the family ____ roles that are reciprocally determined interrelationsips like mother-child, father-child, and mother-father.
adopt
The behavior of each family member affects the whole system, and relationships between two or more members of the family _____ the whole family.
affect
There are different family structures other than the traditional _____ family.
nuclear
The ____ family is a household that consists of multiple generations of the same family as in when grandparents live in the home.
beanpole family
The _____ or reconstituted family is a family strucutre that is the result of remarriage.
blended
More households are non traditional today due to the high rate of _____ and remarriage, and the increasing numbers of same sex parent households, and ______ households.
divorce
single parent
Today many households are headed by _____ working parents raising concern regarding the degree of supervision children have after school and the amount of time parents spend with their children.
dual
_____ children are children who go home to an empty house after school. Many of these children suffer no ill effects, but these are the children whose parents monitor them through cell phone calls and who establish rules for what the child can and cannot do.
latchkey children
Research clearly shows that it is the quality of the time parents spend with their children that affects their development, not the _____ of time.
quantity
Fathers in dual working households participate more in child care than those in household with _____ mothers.
stay at home mothers
Family systems theory also describes a family _____.
life cycle
Theorists in this perspective view the family unit as moving through a sequence of phases analogous to a _____ in a developing individual.
stage model
Family roles are affected by the phase of the family and ______ satifsfactin changes across the phases.
marital
Marital satisfaction is at a peak before the ____, decreases thereafter until the launching phase, where is begins to increase again.
first child
The ____ phase is when young adult children leave the home. It used to be called the empty nest stage.
launching phase
Recent research indicates that most parents enjoy a renewal in their relationship and are very _____ during the launching phase.
satisfied
Baumrind conducted a longitudinal study of parenting and developed a system of classifying _____ styles.
parenting