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Week 4 - Families Flashcards

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1
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What is the most important function for adolescents in terms of family?

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SOCIALIZATION!!!

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What is socialization?

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where children acquire the beliefs, motives, values, and behaviours deemed significant by a culture or subculture

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Families are NOT dynamic systems. True or False?

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False! They are!

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What sort of relationships exist in the dynamic system of the family?

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reciprocal relationships!
- parents influence the children and the children influence the parents

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What can cause a disequilibrium in a family system?

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“significant change in a family member of in a relationship between family members”
- puberty
- divorce
-death

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What are “phase transitions” in family dynamics?

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when old patterns are breaking down and new patterns are emerging

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Are family dynamics always changing?

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YES!
- children become more AUTONOMOUS and want more FREEDOM –> lead to conflict
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What are the two dimensions of parenting?

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1.Acceptance/Responsiveness
2. Demanding/control

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What makes a parent “accepting/responsive”?

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  • warmth
  • affectionate
  • receptive
  • supporting
  • smile, praise and encourage children
  • can be critical if child misbehaving
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What makes parents “demanding/controlling”?

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  • surpervising
  • regulating
  • setting limits
  • actively monitoring to ensure rules are being followed
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What are the 4 different types of parenting styles?

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  1. Authoritarian
  2. Authoritative
  3. Permissive
  4. Uninvolved
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What does “authoritarian” parenting focus on and provide an example?

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  • obedience
  • punishment over discipline
    -high demand, low warmth
  • ex: the mother in tangled
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What does “authoritative” parenting focus on and provide an example?

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  • creates a positive relationship
  • enforce rules rationally
  • low demand, high warmth
  • “gold standard”
  • consider child’s point of view and acknowledges that
  • tailors demands to child’s ability to regulate
    -demands are realistic and allows autonomy
  • ex: Phill from modern family or Danny from Full House
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What does “permissive” parenting focus on and provide an example?

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  • Don’t enforce rules
  • mentality that “kids will be kids”
    -more flexible
  • ex: mom from Mean Girls
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What does “uninvolved” parenting focus on and provide an example?

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  • provide little guidance, nurture, or attention
    -not responsive, not warm, no rules
  • ex: Schidt’s Creek parents
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What are the child’s outcomes like from “Authoritarian” parenting?

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  • passive
    -dependent
    -weaker self-esteem
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What are the child’s outcomes like from “Authoritative” parenting?

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  • independent
  • self-assured
  • less likely to get involved in problem behaviours
  • positive social, emotional, and intellectual abilities
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What are the child’s outcomes like from “Permissive” parenting?

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  • immature
  • easily influenced by peer pressure
  • self-centered
    -lack self control
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What are the child’s outcomes like from “Uninvolved” parenting?

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  • most negative outcomes:(
  • little interest in school
  • get into risky activity early (sex, drugs, alcohol)
20
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Can parenting styles mix or be dependent on the situation?

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YEs!

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What is the difference between emotional autonomy and behavioural autonomy?

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Behavioural = ability to make own decisions

Emotional = inner sources of emotional security

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What is the difference between “behavioural control” and “Psychological control” ?

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  • behavioural = parental rules, restriction’s, and limits
  • psychological = inducing guilt, love withdrawl (manipulation of the child)
23
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What are lower levels of behavioural control linked to?

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  • drug use
  • antisocial
    -not going to school
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What are high levels of psychological control linked to?

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  • anxiety
    -depression
  • rejection by peers
25
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What do kids argue with their parents about?

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  1. whether some choices should be made by parents or by the adolescence
    - has to do with the adolescent
    ex: curfews, clothing, chores
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What do kids and parents tend to continue to agree on?

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  • important issues!
    ex: values, religion, morals, respect
27
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When is conflict between parents and kids the highest and lowest?

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highest = early adolescence
lowest=late adolescence

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What is an example on a “non-shared environmental influence” and how does it impact the adolescent?

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  • experiences unique to the individual and not shared by other members of the family in same environment
  • ex: siblings go to different schools
  • could end up having the parent treating one sibling better than the other
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What is an example of a “shared environmental influence” and how does it have an impact on the adolescent?

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  • experiences common to all the family in same environments
  • ex: both siblings play soccer
  • could be competition between the siblings, parents treat them equally or put more pressure on one than the other?
30
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What are the 3 genotype-environment correlations?

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  1. Passive
  2. Evocative
  3. Active
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What is a “passive” genotype-environment?

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  • parents contribute genes to child
  • parents expressive their genes in the environment they create
    ex: mom played piano so creates an environment of music for child
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What is a “evocative” genotype-environment?

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  • genetic traits displayed by children
  • elicit behaviour from others that enhances those traits
  • “evoking the behaviour”
  • ex: child is extroverted and hangs out with other extroverts to “pull the extrovert” out of them
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What is a “Active” genotype-environment?

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  • child’s traits result in them seeking out the “niches” that support the trait
    -actively seeking out their environment
    ex: extroverted child seeking out social situations
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Are siblings vital to the family life of adolescents?

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Yes!

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What do siblings help with for development of adolescents?

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  • serve as models, teachers, critics, and companions
  • influence each other indirectly through parents
  • provide socializing experiences (friendship skills and gender roles)
36
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what is a “complementary role” in the sibling relationship?

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older sibling = mentor
younger siblings = mentee

37
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What is a reciprocal role in siblings?

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mutual and equal support

38
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What is “deidentification”?

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defining oneself as different from siblings

39
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What is “sibling collusion”?

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when your sibling has your back (promotes deviance)

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