Relationships in middle childhood and adolescence

Question 1

What is Promotion of Volitional Functioning (PVF)?

Answer 1

a strategy whereby parents guide or scaffold adolescents decision making (rather than imposing a solution or ceding control) for autonomy and self-determination

Question 2

Until age 6 what relationship is central for providing tender care and nurturance

Answer 2

parent-child

Question 3

What are small friendship groups (particularly same-sex) called?

Answer 3

cliques

Question 4

What is a collection of several mixed-sex cliques called?

Answer 4

a crowd

Question 5

What function does a crowd have?

Answer 5

brings boys and girls together - relationships

Question 6

What are the functions of friendship: middle childhood and adolescence?

Answer 6

• fosters social competence
• gives ego support
• provides emotional security
• is a source of: intimacy/affection, guidance/assistance, companionship/stimulation
• is a basis for reliable alliance

Question 7

What are Castells three modes of communication that coexist in the social media context?

Answer 7

1. interpersonal communication (designated sender/recievers - email)
2. mass communication (one-directional sent from one source to many - youtube)
3. mass self-communication (self-generated message, combines features of mass communication and interpersonal communication)

Question 8

What are the three opportunities for action on social media (Facebook)?

Answer 8

1. maintain close and distant social contacts and follow their activities
2. Choose whether to broadcast self-expressions to everyone in the network at once or to exchange private digital communications
3. Manicure a digital representation of the self to others

Question 9

True or false? Extraverted adolescents have been found to self-disclose and communicate more frequently

Answer 9

True

Question 10

True or false? Introverted adolescents are more strongly motivated to communicate online to compensate for lacking social skills

Answer 10

True

Question 11

What are the characteristics of romantic relationships in adolescence?

Answer 11

recreational, fun

based on gender roles

Question 12

What is the Initiation phase of Brown (1999)?

Answer 12

in early adolescence, the focus is on the self: to see oneself as a person capable of relating to members of the other sex in a romantic way

Question 13

What is the Status phase of Brown (1999)?

Answer 13

in mid-adolescence, having a romantic relationship with the “right kind” of partner is important for the status it brings in the larger peer group

Question 14

What is the Affection phase of Brown (1999)?

Answer 14

in late adolescence, the focus is on the relationship: romantic relationships become more personal, caring relationships

Question 15

What is the Bonding phase of Brown (1999)?

Answer 15

in the transition to early adulthood, the emotional intimacy achieved in the affection phase is connected to a long term commitment to create a lasting attachment bond