Final Flashcards
The rate of infant mortality in the US is ____ than the rates in most of the developed world:
Higher
The ____ months or so following childbirth constitute the postpartum period.
3
Parents who are repressive, controlling and often unreasonably strict are called:
Authoritarian
Effective child rearing strategies include the following except:
One way communication
Which of the following is NOT one of the parenting approaches discussed by the text:
Non contemporary
A latchkey child refers to a school age child who regularly spends part of the day unsupervised at home while their parents are at work. T/F?
T
Pregnancy and childbirth involves both physical and psychological adjustments. T/F?
T
Teen pregnancy has been on the rise since the 1990’s. T/F?
F
The US has the lowest child poverty rate among developed nations. T/F?
F
The 3 styles of grandparenting according to the text are remote, involved and companionate. T/F?
T
Before the Industrialization of society the family household was the major economic unit. T/F?
T
In the study of social class and stratification sociologist distinguish between income and wealth. T/F?
T
In the US, 10% of the wealthiest people control 86% of the wealth. T/F?
T
The poverty line is officially defined as the minimum level of income the US gov considers for individual and family subsistence. T/F?
T
Poverty rates are significantly greater among non whites, women and children. T/F?
T
Role conflict occurs when the expectations of 2 or more roles are incompatible. T/F?
T
Dual earner marriages refer to families where both spouses are employed outside the home. T/F?
T
The glass ceiling refers to an invisible barrier preventing women and other minorities from being promoted to top executive jobs. T/F?
T
Wealth is the monetary value of everything one actually owns. T/F?
T
According to the text is the reaction of our minds and bodies to an unusual or substantial demand made on them:
Stress
Which of the following is not 1 of the 5 types of drugs listed by the text:
Alcohol
_____ is the threat of or infliction of physical or emotional harm on another:
Violence
The types of forcible rape include all but which of the following:
Gay rape
_____ is a defense mechanism where one’s feelings are redirected from the true target to a less threatening substitute:
Displacement
About 1/3 of people who survive a suicide attempt eventually do kill themselves. T/F?
T
According to the text it is impossible to have an affair w/o sexual intercourse being involved. T/F?
F
Anorexia and bulimia refer to eating disorders. T/F?
T
All states have laws making marital rape illegal. T/F?
T
Child neglect refers to acts of aggression by an adult against a child. T/F?
F
Annulment is a pronouncement that declares that a couple never had a valid marriage. T/F?
T
According to the text the catholic church does not recognize divorce. T/F?
T
Divorce is defined as the legal dissolution of a valid marriage. T/F?
T
Among industrialized nations the US has the lowest divorce rate. T/F?
F
In general, the higher a couple’s educational level and income, the higher is the likelihood of divorce. T/F?
F
People who marry as teenagers are more likely to divorce than are older people. T/F?
T
Cohabitators who marry have higher rates or separation and divorce than people who do not live together before marriage. T/F?
T
African Americans have a higher divorce rate than caucasians. T/F?
T
Divorce is a one time event. T/F?
F
There is only one type of child custody. T/F?
F
Which of the following is a function of the family:
Reproduction
Maintaining a household would be a fulfillment of which function of the family:
Common Residence
Which of the following is a function of the family:
Common Residence
The rearing of children would fulfill which of the family:
Nurture and Socialization
The most common method for learning about families is to:
Ask them questions
Most research studies of families are:
Cross-sectional
In-depth study of individuals or small groups who have sought counseling for family problems is called ____ research.
Clinical
When researchers obtain info date by watching people in their usual surrounding, it is called _____ research.
Observational
The family theory that looks at the family as a social institution is:
Structural functional theory
The family theory that divides the family experience into phases over the life span and describes changes in family structure and roles at each phase is _____.
Family development
The family theory that describes the family as a unity of interacting personalities is:
Symbolic interaction theory
Looking at a family from an exchange theory point of view means:
Looking at how each member gets their needs met
Love defined as profoundly tender or passionate affection for another person is termed:
Romantic Love
Another term for sexual, sensuous love is ____:
Erotic Love
Altruistic love is different from all other types of love because of it’s emphasis on:
Lack of concern for one’s own needs.
Individuals who fall in love with people who manifest the characteristics of their ego ideal are said to experience:
Narcissistic love
Which theory is discussed in relation to implications of social influences on boys and girls in developing gender identity and gender roles:
Social Learning Theory
Which theory suggests that gender cannot be learned until a child reaches a certain stage of intellectual development:
Cognitive Development Theory
Cultural theorists argue that males and females:
Are actually equally powerful
According to the evolutionary theory of functionalism, females’ ‘maternal instinct is a result of the:
Genetic desire to have children
Someone who believes that one sex is superior to the other sex is called a:
Sexist
Which of the following is not one of the stages of love as presented by the text:
Self sacrifice
The text defines ______ as the ability or potential to impose one’s will on other people to get them to think, feel, or do something they would not ordinarily have done spontaneously.
Power
Which of the following is not a type of nonverbal communication:
Kind words
Which of the following is not one of Dr. Gray’s stages of dating:
Rapport
Dating patterns today in the US differ from those of previous generations. T/F
T
Arranged marriages are still common through out much of the world. T/F
T
Most people today ask the parents of the one they desire to date permission to do so. T/F
F
One of the functions of dating is for companionship. T/F
T
Sometimes people may not be aware of why they find another person attractive. T/F
T
There is only on theory to explain gender roles. T/F
F
Peer influence has little influence on gender development. T/F
F
Gender refers to one’s biological identity as male of female. T/F
F
TV promotes traditional gender role development. T/F
T
Men usually do their share of housework. T/F
F
Conflict in a relationship is inevitable. T/F
T
Whoever has the least interest in the relationship has the most power. T/F
T
Conflict in a relationship can be negative or positive. T/F
T
Communication can be verbal and nonverbal. T/F
T
There are gender based differences in communication. T/F
T
Your “family of origin” is the one you were bon into. T/F
T
One function of the family is to produce and socialize children. T/F
T
Women got the right to vote in the US in 1920. T/F
T
The 3 components of love a passion, intimacy, and commitment. T/F
T
Homogamy refers to selecting a mate similar to oneself. T/F
T
One possible problem during dating is jealousness. T/F
T
Men are more verbal than women. T/F
F
Women tend to send clearer messages than men. T/F
T
Successful communication patterns in marriages lead to less frequent conflict. T/F
T
Exogamy refers to selecting a mate outside of one’s group. T/F
T
Abstinence is defined as the voluntary avoidance of sexual intercourse. T/F
T
Religion can have direct and indirect influences of sexual behavior. T/F
T
A sexual script is a set of expectations as to how one should behave in sexual situations. T/F
T
Voyeurism is behavior in which one becomes sexually aroused by looking a people, often strangers, undressing or having sex without their knowledge. T/F
T
A decline in the frequency of intercourse almost always indicates problems in the marital relationship. T/F
F
Masturbation refers to sexual stimulation of self. T/F
T
Males and females have been found to have equal rates of masturbation. T/F
F
Cunnilingus and fellatio both refer to types of oral sex. T/F
T
Sexual addiction makes having a satisfying sexual relationship with just one lover difficult. T/F
T
About 2/3 of sexually transmitted diseases occur among people under age 25. T/F
T
Marriage is defined by the text as a legal union between a man and a woman. T/F
T
Utilitarian marriages are marriages based on convenience. T/F
T
Having children generally increases a couple’s marital satisfaction. T/F
F
The vast majority of long term (enduring) marriages involve couples who are blissful and happily in love. T/F
F
Negative reasons for marrying according to the text include physical attractiveness. T/F
T
The single way of life includes the never married, widowed, and divorced. T/F
T
“Adultescents” refers to adult children usually in there 20’s, who have moved back in with their parents. T/F
T
More than one in four households now consist of people living alone. T/F
T
The number of single parent homes have increased significantly since 1970. T/F
T
Bisexuality is the sexual inclination toward both sexes. T/F
T
Prejudice is an attitude of prejudging, usually negative, of an individual or group. T/F
T
Civil unions are similar to marriage, typically created for the purposes of allowing gay couples access to the benefits enjoyed by married heterosexuals. T/F
T
In “group marriage”, each member of the group is married to all other group members of the opposite sex. T/F
T
“Swinging” is an arrangement in which committed couples exchange partners to engage in purely recreational sex. T/F
T
Women are more apt to become widowed than men. T/F
T
Fertility rates vary for different ethnic groups w/ Hispanics having the highest rates. T/F
T
Barrier methods of contraception include diaphragms, cervical caps, condoms, and the contraceptive sponge. T/F
T
A spontaneous abortion refers to a miscarriage that occurs w/in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. T/F
T
Endometriosis refers to the total inability to conceive. T/F
F
Child free marriages involves a choice on the couples part not to have children. T/F
T
Most studies of marital satisfaction agree that couples experience their greatest satisfaction in:
Beginning families
Marital satisfaction reaches its low point during which of the following stages of the family life cycle:
Child rearing phase
Which of the following is not on the the “right” reasons to marry as discussed but he text:
Sexual Relationship
All of the following are among important factors affecting middle aged and oder couples except:
Religious differences
The period following the “launching” of grown children from the home is known as the _____ syndrome:
Empty nest
_____ refers to both the ability to reproduce biologically and a person’s actual reproductive performance:
Fertility
Which of the following is the least effective birth control method:
Breast feeding
_____ Refers to the failure to conceive after one year of regular sexual intercourse w/o contraception or the inability to carry a pregnancy to live birth:
Infertility
According the the text which of the following social and economic factor does not influence one’s decision on having children or not:
Relationship to parents
Which of the following is a pregnancy protection approach that usually doesn’t work:
Douching
Premarital factors which researchers have found to predict later marital happiness and satisfaction include all of the following except:
of previous relationships
Marital adjustment tasks include all of the following exempt:
Learning to seek emotional support from friends
Why don’t condoms offer complete protection against AIDS:
All of the above
On the average women tend to live ____ years longer than men.
8
A marriage in which the couples agree that each may have sexual relationships outside the marriage while keeping the marriage the primary relationship is referred to as:
Open marriage
The fastest growing family form in the US is the:
Single Family
An example of a type of single that is single permanently by choice would be:
Nun
An example of a type of single that is single temporarily by choice would be:
Student
Which of the following would NOT be a characteristic of a successful marriage:
No communication
Which of the following would be the most reliable source for info concerning sex:
Education Institutions
The most common form of family violence is sibling violence. T/F
T
Courtship patterns are the same for the first and second marriages. T/F
F
Around 40% of all marriages are remarriages. T/F
T
As a general rule, second and third marriages don’t last as long as first marriages. T/F
T
Remarried couples tend to have less social support from their families. T/F
T
The probability of divorce in remarriage is greater than first marriages. T/F
T
Having children present increases the chance of a successful remarriage. T/F
F
Learned behavior, frustration/aggression and nature as animals are three theories of violence. T/F
T
Two types of dual earner families are shift couples and peer marriages. T/F
T
TV has been found not to contribute to violence. T/F
F
The 3 types of poor are the working poor, chronic poor and those who receive public assistance. T/F
T
