Lecture 11a Parenting Styles Flashcards

1
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Temperament, attachment style and _________ are all related. ______ and ______ affect secure attachment. Parenting and temperament can affect each other.

A

parenting

temperament and parenting

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Define warmth:

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A warm parent cares about the kid will place there needs first and is empathetic.

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Define hostile:

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rejecting of the kid in a way that makes the kid think they hate them

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Kids from high warmth families are :

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  • more securely attached
  • have higher self esteem
  • more altruistic
  • empathetic
  • higher IQ
  • do better in school
  • are less aggressive
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Kids from low warmth families are more likely to have _________ and ___________

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mental health problems and suicidal thoughts

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What determines the emotional tone of the family?

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Warmth vs Hostility and Parental responsiveness

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T or F: Children with high warmth moms were less hostile and delinquent than those with low warmth moms

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True

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Responsiveness ( ________ ) has both ________ and ___________ benefits for the child.

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Synchrony

cognitive and socio-emotional

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What are the cognitive and socio emotional benefits for a child with responsive parents:

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  • pick up language faster
  • faster cognitive development
  • higher IQ
  • socially competent probably b/c they are securely attached
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What are three methods of control?

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1) clear and consistent rules
2) parental expectations
3) use of punishments

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T or F: It is good to control your kids

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True

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In the study in which Jr. High kids were asked questions about whether someone keeps and eye on them, knows where they are etc. what were the results?

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If kids had someone controlling them they had higher self-esteem, self-efficacy and were more psychologically competent and better in school.

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Why is it important that kids have clear and consistent rules?

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It is very stressful not knowing the rules or the consequences of breaking them.

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Kids who are expected to be mature understand ______ and have _______ self esteem, get along better with others, are ____ altruistic and less aggressive. With ________they will reach to achieve them.

A

responsibility
increased
more
achievable goals

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15
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How should punishment be:

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  • right way
  • calm
  • warm
  • involve communication
    mild -take away small priviledges
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Punishments that are _______ and ________ are ineffective and lead to bad outcomes and result in well behaved kids.

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extreme and emotional

17
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What are the four types of parents?

A

1) authoritative
2) authoritarian
3) permissive
4) neglecting

18
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What type of parent is high in control and high in acceptance.

A

Authoritative

19
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What type of parent is low in acceptance and low in control?

A

Neglecting

20
Q

What type of parent is low in acceptance and high in control?

A

Authoritarian

21
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What type of parent is high in acceptance and low in control?

A

Permissive

22
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What type of parents does a child that has these traits have:

  • high self esteem
  • high self control
  • better in school
  • achievement oriented
  • independent
  • compliant
  • altruistic
A

Authoritative (the good kind :))

23
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What type of parents does a child that has these traits have:

  • poor social skills
  • less well in school
  • subdued
  • lower SE
  • more aggressive
  • lacks self control/ self regulation
A

Authoritarian Parents - very demanding unresponsive, emphasize obedience, respect and order “ do as I say or else”

24
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What type of parents does a child that has these traits have:

  • less well in school
  • aggressive when they don’t get what they want
  • immature
  • irresponsible
  • lack self control
A

Permissive - outcome is almost as bad as authoritarian

25
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What type of parents does a child that has these traits have:

  • bad relationships
  • impulsive
  • not achievement oriented
A

neglecting

26
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Even in the group of children with neglecting parents ________ predicts success

A

contol

27
Q

Describe the longitudinal study on 11000 teens at time 1 and 7000 at time 2. (some attrition but it wasn’t selective). What were the 6 outcome measures they were tested on?

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Subjects rated the accuracy of statements such as “someone knows where I am” and families were classified on parental style. Subjects were tested on several outcome measures including resilience, social competence, school performance, mental health and delinquency.

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The results of this longitudinal study showed that authoritative parents kids had ________ and _______. Authoritorian parents have the lowest _______ and _________. Neglecting parents kids were _______.

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  • more positives (resilience, social competence and school performance) and less negatives ( more stable mental health and lower delinquency.
  • social competence and self reliance
  • worse on everything else
29
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What did Steinberg and Dornbush find about school performance (GPA) and different parenting types?

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Authoritative kids had the highest performance
In the middle, no difference between authoritarian and permissive.
Neglecting parents kids have the lowest GPA

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What did Steinberg and Dornbush find about delinquency and different parenting types?

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Neglecting kids were most delinquent followed by permissive, followed by authoritarian, followed by authoritative.

31
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The interaction of temperament, attachment and parenting style can have consequences on many aspects of life including_________, _________________, ___________.

A

social, emotional, cognitive etc.

32
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What is the best combination of temperament, attachment and parenting?

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Easy baby, secure attachment and authoritative parent.

33
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What is the worst combination of temperament, attachment and parenting?

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Difficult baby, insecure attachment, neglecting parents