sfl 336 final Flashcards
carl g. maeser - BYU should have the teachers do nothing that…
the students can do for themselves
elder holland - this church is always one generation away from…
extinction
president packer - what percentage of your BYU tuition is covered by sacred tithing funds?
75%+
principle of lived invitation
our behavior is permission to others to behave similarly. but it is more than that, it is an invitation to do so.
three levels of application for this class
- personal/familial
- community/faith community
- professional/academic
smith & hamon - 3 central features of theory
- assumptions
- concepts
- propositions
from a social scientific standpoint, propositions should be…
testable
what is a paradigm shift
TLAS - when you encounter new information that changes the way you view things (ex. finding out tamara was in a concentration camp)
what is the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning
TLAS - inductive is building something small to big, deductive is working backwards from big to small
cooley’s “looking glass self”
we incorporate our judgments of how others perceive us into our sense of self
elder maxwell - scholarship is a form of…
worship/discipleship
the only family theoretical perspective to explicity embrace human agency
life course
how many stages are there in family development theory
8 stages
TLAS - briefly name a related problem
what does it mean that development is reciprocal according to FDT?
children help their parents develop too
thomas theorem
if people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences
elder maxwell / Jesus - how do we really know something is true (the Lord’s epistemology)?
john 7:17
we must ACT to know if something is true
what scholar was integral in the development of both FDT and stress theory
reuben hill
what percentage of couples decrease in marital satisfaction after the birth of their first child? what makes those who increase in satisfaction different?
4/6 decreased satisfaction
1/6 increased satisfaction have love maps - awareness of your partner’s emotional world
what are the 4 epistemologies
HERS
- hermeneutics: story telling and meaning making
- empiricism: sensory experiences
- rationalism: reasoning and logic
- social construction: learn from others around you
define bonadaptation and maladaption in family stress theory
TLAS
alma 62:41 - whether you become softened or hardened by stress
2 key takeaways from the worlds apart reading
- empirical data does not negate personal experience
- personal experience does not negate empirical data
systems theory - the whole is greater than…
the sum of its parts
systems theory - the person is not the problem, it’s the…
system. what does that imply?
strong relationship pyramid
TRUST
respect
love
friendship
***trust and respect are different because they must be earned, they cannot be given as a gift
bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory - examples of micro, exo, and macrosystems
micro: family, school, peers
exo: parent’s workplace
macrosystem: societal norms, goverment
what is the hegalian dialectic?
a pendulum swing of ideologies
- ex: premarital sex is morally wrong swung from 85% yes in 1967 to 85% no in 2000
2 basic assumptions of conflict theory
- conflict is inevitable
- resources are scarce
2 different groups of people in conflict theory
- the “haves”
- the “have-nots”
what do most conflict theorists believe?
conflict is beneficial
3 attachment types from bowlby and ainsworth
- secure
- anxious
- avoidant
attachment - granqvist et al. portrays God as…
an attachment figure
2 assumptions of social exchange theory
- people are motivated by self interest
- the goal is to maximize gains and minimize losses
2 research findings from “doing what she thinks is best”
- it is not whether or not a mother works that influences her mental well being postpartum, but rather how closely her work situation resembles her desired situation
- 71% of mothers did not achieve their desired work situation, which significantly predicts depression 3 years postpartum
on what 2 points do leading human development theorists agress?
- theory matters and it matters a lot
- the 0-6 age range is when the template for later life is set down
what is ZZZT and how long does it last?
little shot of hormones that indicate a spark of physical attraction
- lasts 60-70 days
- TLAS: why does this matter?
- after the ZZZT wears off, you need to make sure you choose someone with meat and potatoes
briefly summarize propositions 1 & 2 from sacred theory
the sacred matters and it matters a lot
briefly summarize propositions 3 & 4 from sacred theory
how you act on your beliefs matters much more than what you say you belief
what do the van lang studies teach about sacrifice?
the best marriages are made up of two partners both sacrificing for each other
what did abraham maslow see as the pinnacle of human development in his early career?
what about 30 yrs later?
- self-actualization
- self-transcendence
- TLAS: so what? why does that matter?