chapter 14 - becoming part of the family Flashcards

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parenting style

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the behaviors and attitudes that parents have toward their children, which together create a particular parenting environment or climate

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authoritarian parents

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a parent who adopts a stern, coercive mode of child rearing

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permissive parent

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a parent who adopts a style of child rearing that is warm but set few if any guidelines for the child’s behavior

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authoritative parent

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a parent who adopts a warm mode of child rearing with clear limits and guidelines for the child’s behavior

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ecological systems approach

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an approach to the study of families that emphasizes the various contexts in which children develop and how children fit into those contexts

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child effect

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a genetically determined behavior in a child that evokes a particular kind of behavioral response in the parent

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gender schema

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a cognitive structure for interpreting gender-related activities and roles

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resource theory

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the idea that the more children there are in a family, the fewer resources there are for each child

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confluence theory

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the theory that as family size grows, there is a corresponding drop in the overall intellectual climate in the family because many conversations and interactions would be between children rather than between adults and children

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sibling differentiation

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a phenomenon in which siblings strive to occupy contrasting social and skill niches as a way of developing their own distinctive identities in a family. This is in contrast to the case where younger siblings imitate older ones

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nuclear families

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a family typically consisting of the mother and father as heads of the household, along with their children

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extended families

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a family whose members reach across generations and sometimes incorporates aunts, uncles, and cousins

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internalizing problem

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a problem that is largely within the individual, such as depression

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externalizing problem

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a problem that is expressed externally by a child, such as aggression or sexual promiscuity

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blended family

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a family consisting of the parents and all children from their current relationship as well as children from prior relationships

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cycle of abuse

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the patterns in which abused children grow up to be abusing parents, whose abused children then grow up to abuse their children