chapter 4 Flashcards
Primary group
Close personal relationships who share expectations on behaviour and often interact with each other
Single parent family
One parent and children
Step family
One of both parents reside with children from prior unions
Blended familyl
Non traditional assumed families that live together, are committed to each other or perform functions traditionally assumed by families
Socialisation
the process through which individuals learn proper ways of acting in a society.
Changes from traditional family patterns
Marrying later or not at all, living together, together but living separate, births to single mothers, mothers working
Positive family functioning
needs communication
Macro system effect
positive and negative
families require resources
Systems
A set of elements that form an orderly, interrelated, and functional whole
Life Cycle
- Separating an unattached young adult from his or her family of origin
- Marrying and establishing an identity as part of a couple, rather than as an individual
- Having and raising young children
- Dealing with adolescent children striving for independence, and refocusing on the couple relationship as adolescents gain that independence
- Sending children forth into their own new relationships, addressing midlife crises, and coping with the growing disabilities of aging parents
- Adjusting to aging and addressing the inevitability of one’s own death
Things that effect the life cycle
class culture disability ethnicity gender immigration status race religion sexual orientation
Behavior modification
the therapeutic application of learning theory principles
Respondent conditioning
occurs when a person learns to respond to a new stimulus that does not naturally elicit a response
Modelling
the learning of behavior by observing another individual engaging in that behavior
Operant Conditioning
behaviors are influenced primarily by the consequences that follow them
