Exam 3 Flashcards
Adolescents rate having the (closest or farthest?) attachment to their parents (than even peers, friends, and siblings)
Closest
The beginning of sexual maturity is a key change that may affect the equilibrium (balance) of a family when a child enters puberty
Disequilibrium & Puberty
Most Americans’ _____ is marked by feeling that one is in the prime of their life
midlife
What refers to the adjustments that parents must make in midlife when their youngest child leaves home?
Empty Nest Syndrome
Do most parents adjust easily to their children’s departure?
Yes
True or False: An adolescent’s relationship with their siblings presents the highest level of conflict out of all other relationships
True
As adolescents get older, they spend (less or more?) time with their family, which is completely normal
Less
What are the two dimensions of parenting?
Demandingness (Also referred to as “Control”)
Responsiveness (Also referred to as “Warmth”)
Degree to which parents set rules and expectations for behavior and require their children to comply with them is called…
Demandingness (Also referred to as “Control”)
Degree to which parents are sensitive to their children’s needs and express love, warmth, and concern is called…
Responsiveness (Also referred to as “Warmth”)
What are the four parenting styles?
Authoritative, Authoritarian, Permissive, and Disengaged
What parenting style am I?
High Demandingness And High Responsiveness
Set clear rules and expectations and explain why they exist
Make clear what the consequences will be if children do not comply
Promote autonomy through encouraging discussion
Top Parenting Style for U.S. Majority Culture
American parents highly value independence as a quality they want in their children
Children from these households tend to be more independent, self-assured, creative, and socially skilled
Authoritative
High Demandingness And High Responsiveness is what parenting style?
Authoritative
What parenting style am I?
High Demandingness, Low Responsiveness
Require obedience from children
Punish disobedience without compromise or conversation
Children from these households tend to be more passive and conforming
Authoritarian
High Demandingness, Low Responsiveness
Authoritarian
What parenting style am I?
Low Demandinigness, High Responsiveness
Few expectations for behavior, Rarely discipline children
Focus on “unconditional love” and give children a large amount of freedom
Permissive
Low Demandinigness, High Responsiveness
Permissive
What parenting style am I?
Low Demandingness And Low Responsiveness
Minimize time and emotion devoted to parenting
Require little of their children and rarely bother to correct behavior
Also express little amount of love and concern (little emotional attachment to children)
Disengaged
Parents influence their Children
AND
Children influence their Parents in return
is called?
Reciprocal or Bidirectional Effects
While conflict with parents remains at (high or low?) levels through early and middle adolescence.
High
Examples of Parent-Adolescent Conflict
Curfews or Choice of Music, etc.
Is parent-child conflict universal or typical in all cultures?
No
Parents in (traditional or western?) cultures are more likely to be concerned with adolescents’ conformity to cultural beliefs.
Traditional
True or False: Parents in traditional cultures tend to emphasize cultural beliefs about parental authority and interdependence.
True
True or False:
After leaving home, Emerging Adults:
Feel a greater closeness with their parents
Have fewer negative feelings toward their parents
Value their parents’ opinions
True
One implication that follows from increased rates of divorce in the U.S. is that mothers are (more or less?) likely to work.
More
As it pertains to divorce… Researchers studying psychological effects of divorce focus on a child’s exposure to conflict between their parents. True or false?
True
Effects of Mother’s Remarriage After Divorce:
Adolescent problems increase or decrease?
Increase
Parents remain important figures in the lives of adolescents, however the time spent with family through adolescence (declines or increases?) steeply
Declines
Time spent with same-gender friends remains ____?
Stable or the same
Time spent with other-gender friends (increases or decreases?)
Increases
When seeking advice, adolescents turn to _____ for issues related to education and future occupation, but prefer turning to _____ for more personal issues.
Parents; Friends
Primary Sources of Emotional Support:
Children prefer who?
Parents
True or False: Early Adolescents had an equal preference for Parents and Same-Gender Friends?
True
Mid & Late Adolescents prefer ___ for their primary sources of emotional support.
Same gender friends
Emerging Adults prefer _____ for their primary sources of emotional support.
Romantic Partners
Are these correct? Parents Influence their Adolescents’ Peer Relationships by:
Location of the Family Home
Choice of School
Religious Practices
Yes
True or False? Early adolescents become cognitively capable of greater perspective taking and empathy. This new capacity enables them to form friendships in which they truly care about their friends as individuals rather than simply as play partners.
True
The degree which two people share personal knowledge, thoughts, and feelings is known as?
Intimacy
Adolescents rate trust and loyalty as (more or less?) important to friendship than younger children do
More
True or False:
Adolescents tend to make Friends with people who are Similar to them in:
Age
Gender
Ethnicity
Educational Orientation (e.g., both work hard at school)
Media & Leisure Preferences (e.g., both like playing video games)
Participation in Risk Behavior (e.g., both engage in under-age drinking)
True
As children enter adolescence, friendships become (more or less?) interethnic, and by late adolescence they are generally ethnically segregated.
Less
Young people become (increasingly or decreasingly?) aware of society’s interethnic tensions and conflict, and this awareness fosters mutual mistrust.
Increasingly
True or False: Similarly, as adolescents begin to form an ethnic identity, they may begin to see the divisions between ethnic groups as sharper than they had perceived them before. These challenges continue in college and throughout adulthood, during which interethnic friendships are fairly uncommon.
True
For most people, friends’ influence is (strongest or weakest?) during middle adolescence.
Strongest
True or False:
Adolescents are Influenced by their Friends in:
Encouragement of Positive Behavior
Encouragement of Risk Behavior
Discouragement of Risk Behavior
True
The principle that most people tend to choose friends who are similar to themselves is known as
Selective Association
Types of Friendship Support. The principle that most people tend to choose friends who are similar to themselves is what?
Informational Support
What type of Friendship Support is this? Jack always asks his friend Toby when Jack needs help on his homework.
Instrumental Support
What type of Friendship Support is this? Jack and Toby always walk to school together, sit together at lunch, and go together to watch football games on Friday nights.
Companionship Support
What type of Friendship Support is this? Jack always turns to his friend Toby to celebrate his successes and make him feel better when he is feeling low.
Esteem Support
Small groups of friends, Who:
know each other well, do things together, and form a regular social group is a
Clique