unit 4 test

Question 1

Factors that make people at risk for spousal abuse?

Answer 1

• children under the age of six
• poverty or low income family
• mental illness
• lack of parenting skills
• lack of attachment
• intergenerational cycle of violence
• addiction
• parents can’t cope

Question 2

Factors used to gain power and control in a abusive relationship

Answer 2

• intimidation
• emotional abuse
• isolation
• minimizing, denying, blaming
• using children and pets as guilt trip
• using privilege
• economic abuse
• coercion and threats

Question 3

Parenting styles?

Answer 3

• Authoritative: warmth, support, acceptance & indirect positive control
• Authoritarian: more parental control and use of punishment
• Permissive: Typified by few rules and by the children controlling family situations

Question 4

3 myths about past families

Answer 4

1. nuclear family is a unique form to the industrialized world
2. for most of the history, family was merely an economic unit until the west invented romantic love
3. until the 20th century, family grouping consisted of large extended families without at least 3 generations in one home. In reality, there were exception not the norm

Question 5

Harlows experiment

Answer 5

• took infant monkeys away from their mothers at birth
• introduced to 2 artificial mothers (one wired mother with a feeding device and other made out of cloth)
• babies rarely stayed with the wire monkey after feeding, babies preferred the mother made out of cloth

Question 6

Eriksons theory?

Answer 6

trust vs mistrust

• If the care the infant receives is consistent, predictable and reliable they will develop a sense of trust which will carry with them to other relationships, and they will be able to feel secure even when threatened
• if the care has been harsh or inconsistent, unpredictable and unreliable then the infant will develop a sense of mistrust and will not have confidence in the world around them or in their abilities to influence events

Question 7

Why do people have kids?

Answer 7

• cultural
• social
• economic
• familial
• emotional
• personal satisfaction

Question 8

Types of child abuse?

Answer 8

Physical, emotional/verbal, neglect and sexual abuse.

Question 9

Factors permittedfor Assisted reproductive technologies?

Answer 9

• surrogate mothers
• donating sperm, eggs and other reproductive material
• using embryos, sperm, eggs, etc to assist conception
• using human embryos and stem cells in research

Question 10

Factors banned for Assisted reproductive technologies?

Answer 10

• making clones of people
• cloning stem cells
• growing human embryos for research
• sex selection
• making changes to human DNA that would pass from one generation to the next
• creating people who have animal DNA
• buying or selling embryos, sperms, eggs or other human reproductive material