quiz 5 Flashcards
Parents may directly teach their children skills, rules, and strategies and explicitly inform or advise them on various issues
Direct Instructors
Parents provide indirect socialization in their course of their day-to-day interactions with their children
Indirect Socializers
Parents manage children’s experiences and social lives
- the exposure to positive or negative experiences
- the opportunities to play with certain toys and children
- the exposure to various kinds of information
Providers and Controllers of Opportunities
What are the two general dimensions of parental behavior?
The degree of warmth and responsiveness and the amount of control
Parents’ efforts to supervise and monitor their children’s behavior
Parental Control
- Setting standards that are appropriate for the child’s age
- Showing the child how to meet the standards
- Rewarding the child for complying to these standards
- Also based on good communication
Effective Control
(T or F) Children are more compliant when parents are consistent with enforcing rules
True
A process of learning and education and a means by which socialization takes place
- Purpose is to instruct in proper conduct, rather than to punish
- Goal is to sensitize child’s conscience so they develop self control that enables them to live according to rules and standards established by group
Discipline
Key factor in influencing effectiveness
Consistency
Important since discipline is more effective when it is applied as soon as possible after offense
Timing
High parental control with little warmth
Authoritarian Parenting
A fair degree of parental control with being warm and responsive to children
Authoritative Parenting
Warmth and caring but little parental control
Indulgent-Permissive Parenting
Neither warmth nor control
Indifferent-Uninvolved Parenting
Telling a child what to do, when and why
Direct Instruction
Learning what to and what not to do by watching and counterimitation
Learning by Observing (modeling)
Parents indicate whether a behavior is appropriate and should continue or should stop
Feedback
Any action that increases the likelihood of the response that it follows
Reinforcement
Any action that discourages the recurrence of the response that it follows
Punishment
There is an attachment of a child to positive images of desired loving behavior
- They seek to duplicate family of origin relationships
- Can become problematic when the spouse is not like that “beloved parent”
Positive Identification
The avoidance of undesired behaviors
- The differences that the spouse demonstrates, is what influences the spouse selection
- Ex: if the person had parent who drank excessively, they specifically select someone who doesn’t enjoy drinking
Negative Identification
- Can complicate the child-parent relationship as they can cause confusion regarding the identity of the primary parent
- Can result in child undermining the authority of existing parent and feeling uncertain about the environment
Complex Relationships
Extending families often value the wider kin group more than individual relationships
- Leading to loyalty issues within the family
- Can cause difficulties in a couple’s relationship where a close marriage may be seen as a threat to wider kin group
Conflicting Loyalties
What are some protective factors?
Increased resources, strong kinship bonds, flexibility in roles, relies on cultural values to sustain family..
What are some grandparent roles?
Family historian, mentor, nurturer, role model, confidante, advisor, advocate, playmate…
