Chapter 7

Question 1

Affective Functions

Answer 1

Emotional functions of the family, pertaining to love, nurturance, and attachment.

Question 2

authoritarian parents

Answer 2

Parenting style in which parents are high in demandingness but low in responsiveness

Question 3

authoritative parents

Answer 3

A parenting style in which parents are high in demandingness and high in responsiveness

Question 4

autonomy

Answer 4

The quality of being independent and self-sufficient, capable of thinking for one’s self.

Question 5

buddy relationship

Answer 5

Between siblings, a relationship in which they treat each other as friends.

Question 6

caregiver relationship

Answer 6

Between siblings, a relationship in which one sibling serves parental functions for the other.

Question 7

casual relationship

Answer 7

Between siblings, a relationship that is not emotionally intense, in which they have little to do with one another.

Question 8

critical relationship

Answer 8

Between siblings, a relationship characterized by a high level of conflict and teasing.

Question 9

custodial parent

Answer 9

The parent who lives in the same household as the children following a divorce.

Question 10

differential parenting

Answer 10

When parents’ behavior differs toward siblings within the same family.

Question 11

____is a principle of the family systems approach that explains why, for instance, the advent of puberty can result in poorer relationship quality between adolescents and their parents.

Answer 11

Disequilibrium