Friendships

Question 1

As children enter ________, their relationship and interactions with their parents shift.

Answer 1

middle childhood

Question 2

In middle childhood, parents and adolescents are less likely to:

Answer 2

show one another overt affection.

Question 3

Children are also less likely to use ______ behaviors to get what they want. Instead, they use _______.

Answer 3

coercive behaviors, language

Question 4

Coercive behaviors include:

Answer 4

whining, yelling, or hitting

Question 5

Parents are ______ severe with older children and are ______ critical of the mistakes they make. This is because the parents believe that children should now be __________.

Answer 5

more, more, more capable and responsible.

Question 6

Common concerns of parents of children in middle childhood are:

Answer 6

their children’s academic achievement, how much they should be involved in their child’s school, how much the child should be expected to participate in family chores, and how much influence they should have in their child’s social life.

Question 7

In middle childhood, parents influence their children’s behavior by______, _________, ______, or ______. __________ is less common.

Answer 7

reasoning with them, appealing to their self-esteem, appealing to their sense of humor, arousing guilt,
physical punishment

Question 8

The process of negotiating and balancing the levels of control between the parent and the child in different areas of the child’s life is called:

Answer 8

coregulation

Question 9

Coregulation is:

Answer 9

the process of negotiating and balancing the levels of control in different areas of the child’s life

Question 10

Parents also influence their child’s social lives in an indirect manner by:

Answer 10

providing working models for how people should interact with one another.

Question 11

An example of parental influence on children’s social life through a working model is:

Answer 11

coercive family interaction patterns.

Question 12

________ (year) conducted a study where he collected information on the social behavior and social environments of over 200 boys aged 9 and 10 through interviews with their teachers, classmates, and families. _______ found that boys who were exposed to more coercive family experiences at home were the boys who were most likely to be rejected by their peers at school, show more aggression towards their peers, and behave badly in the classroom.

Answer 12

Thomas Dishion (1990)

Question 13

Thomas Dishion (1990) conducted a study where:

Answer 13

he collected information on the social behavior and social environments of over 200 boys aged 9 and 10 through interviews with their teachers, classmates, and families. Dishion found that boys who were exposed to more coercive family experiences at home were the boys who were most likely to be rejected by their peers at school, show more aggression towards their peers, and behave badly in the classroom.

Question 14

Maltreated children are at _____ risk for becoming aggressive.

Answer 14

greater

Question 15

Alan Sroufe argues that:

Answer 15

children’s relationships with their families have a cascade effect on their relationships with their peers, and vice versa. Each provides the child with support to make the other relationship deeper and stronger. For example, a supportive family helps a child have the energy and skills needed to develop successful friendships.

Question 16

Who argues that Alan Sroufe argues that children’s relationships with their families have a cascade effect on their relationships with their peers, and vice versa?

Answer 16

Alan Sroufe

Question 17

Children whose parents have divorced are twice as likely to have:

Answer 17

academic, psychological, and social problems.

Question 18

One reason why children are so strongly affected by divorce is that divorce is usually followed by:

Answer 18

a change in the children’s economical status

Question 19

Developmentalists view divorce through a couple different lenses:

Answer 19

The crisis model, the chronic strain model, and the divorce-stress-adustment perspective.
A slightly different perspective is the selection perspective.
It is also possible there is a genetic component.

Question 20

The crisis model is:

Answer 20

views divorce as a specific disturbance to which parents and children adjust over time

Question 21

The chronic strain model is:

Answer 21

recognizes that ongoing hardships caused by the divorce may affect the children’s lives and adjustments for years to come

Question 22

The divorce-stress-adjustment perspective is:

Answer 22

views marital dissolution not as a discrete event, but as a complex process that varies depending on the circumstances.

Question 23

The selection perspective is:

Answer 23

A slightly different perspective of divorce which posits that the adjustment problems children have is not caused by the divorce itself so much as by the toxic family environment the children grew up in before the divorce

Question 24

It is also possible there is a genetic component to divorce. What does this mean?

Answer 24

Children from divorced families might be more troubled because they have inherited predispositions from their troubled parents that place them at greater risk for a variety of problems. Again, here, the divorce itself is not believed to be the root of the problem.

Question 25

Who noted that children that respond best after a divorce seek social support, access to therapeutic interventions, avoid self-blame, and feel in control?

Answer 25

Paul Amato

Question 26

What is Paul Amato known for?

Answer 26

He noted that children that respond best after a divorce seek social support, access to therapeutic interventions, avoid self-blame, and feel in control.

Question 27

Children that respond best after a divorce seek:

Answer 27

social support, access to therapeutic interventions, avoid self-blame, and feel in control.