Psych 303 Midterm – Flashcards

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To counter the self-absorption of adolescence, Mary Pipher recommends that early adolescent girls should spend more time
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in altruistic activities (pg 311)
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Marcia describes four paths to arriving at as sense of identity. These include all of the following EXCEPT
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Identity suppression
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Parent's marital satisfaction and their parenting skills
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are most often positively related to each other
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In emotion coaching, parents use scaffolding, define as
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giving children information and assistance to start the problem-solving process
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Time diaries from 1965-2000 reveal that in 2000 parents spent
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more time at work and more time with children
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All of the following qualities were included in children's descriptions of the good parent EXCEPT
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Providing accurate criticism
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An I-messages includes all the following EXCEPT
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the punishment that will follow (pg118)
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Giving babies massages
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Increased depressed mother's alertness in face to face interactions with babies (pg113)
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When parents punish their children for becoming upset and negative
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A friend tells you she wants to promote more family rituals. Which of the following would you not advise her to do?
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Let activities unfold spontaneously (pg 120 box)
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When children are distressed at parents' arguing and respond by yelling and uncontrolled behavior, parents
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Increase their arguing over time (pg124)
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In comparison with those African American teens who identified with both their ethnic group and broader American culture, those Africa American teens who separate themselves from the majority group because they felt rejected by it
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did not differ on measures of self-esteem and grades
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Dr. Karp's five-step program for helping newborns settle into their new world include all of the following EXCEPT:
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silencing
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Toddlers are most successful in avoiding forbidden activities when
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concentrate on the activity they wish to do
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In the first year of a child's life, parents are in what Ellen Galinsky terms stage?
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Nurturing
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In looking at ethnic and social status differences in child rearing, Annette Lareau used the term "accomplishment of natural growth" to refer to parents' efforts to
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In looking at ethnic and social status differences in child rearing, Annette Lareau used the term "accomplishment of natural growth" to refer to parents' efforts to
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Parental action to decrease children's aggression should include
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Avoiding harsh punishment
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. Preschoolers that have mastery motivation have all of the following qualities EXCEPT
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Insist that they be the first to tackle the problem
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In comparison to girls, preschool boys
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Show no significant differences in behavior
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A mother worries that she and her husband were so stressed with money problems after the birth of their daughter, now a preschooler, that her daughter will not have a secure attachment to her. You tell her
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The quality of the current relationship of the mother and child determines the attachment
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Mothers of inhibited 2 year olds were more likely to be overprotected and in the preschool years they
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Shifted and became more harsh and directive with children
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A father says he is worried because his 3 year old daughter is very upset about the birth of her baby sister, and he wants them to be close as they grow up. What would you tell him
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Even though they have some negative feelings at the time of birth, by the end of the first year, most children have positive feelings and would like another sibling
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Factors accounting for the negative interactions that occur in the families of James McHale's sample were all of the following EXCEPT:
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Parents had given up on achieving agreement
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Engaging in sociodramatic play helps children develop in many ways including:
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Father's play with boys and girls, as observed in laboratory sessions
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Elicited more male stereotyped behavior in son's play but not in daughter's play
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Mothers and fathers of highly active children are more likely to be
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Directive and authoritarian
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When children are afraid to go to bed, Dr. Feber advises parents
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Search carefully under the bed for monsters to reassure children
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According to Ellen Galinsky, parents of preschool children are in
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Interpretive Stage
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Expected parents who felt rejected by their own parents, were able to anticipate positive relationships with their own babies when they
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Came to a broader understanding of their parents
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Parents who were having difficulties in their marriages were able to form positive co-parenting relationships when they
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Coordinated their own care giving with the feelings and desires of the other parent
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A positive marital relationship that helps parents in the transition to parenting includes all of the following EXCEPT:
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Keeping what bothers you to yourself
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Woman in their early twenties who have many person social resources
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Postpone families
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A father's feelings about the pregnancy
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Influence father's involvement in care of the baby after birth
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The concept of cognitive readiness for parenthood includes all of the following EXCEPT:
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Focusing on the circumstances of the conception
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Transitions to parenthood is less difficult when husbands and wife share work based on
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A similar ideology
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Tim Murphy believes that in a family that has experienced losses and parents' psychological problems, anger is often an expression of
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Pain
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Parents can help their aggressive children when they
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Teach positive social skills
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A successful program for dealing with bullying includes all of the following EXCEPT
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Ignores negative behaviors
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Ellen Galinsky believes that, in the elementary school years, parents are in the stage where they
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Interpret the world to children
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Parent's promote children's school success when they do all of the following EXCEPT:
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Leave education to the experts at school
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Blake Taylor described all of the following as ways he used to deal with his ADHD EXCEPT:
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Not mentioning his diagnosis to other people
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A social skills autopsy involves all of the following steps EXCEPT:
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Telling the child how to fix the problem
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Parents who home school children report their primary reason for doing so is concerns about all of the following EXCEPT:
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Extended family pressure
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28. Children whose mothers consistently encouraged autonomy from the preschool years through the early school years were described as
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Spontaneous and independent
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30. A mother of a 6 year old complains her son is not doing well in first grade because he is not getting enough recess and play time. Based on your knowledge, you tell her
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Developmentally he is old enough to sit in the classroom and does not need recess
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31. To understand a child's frighten cries at the sight of a barking dog, a learning theorist
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would want to know what frightened stimulus had been paired with a barking dog in the child's pastexperience
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Erik Erikson differs from other theorist in specifying
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strengths that develop from having a positive balance of experiences
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A social learning theorist would explain why a minister's child lies after hearing the minster tell a white lie as
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Doing what the parent does,no what the parents says
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Interventions with children who have the DRD4 7 repeat allele
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Children differ not in whether they are attached to parents, but in
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Quality of attachement
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According to Cynthia Garcia Coll and Laura Szalacha, outsider status trigger a series of processes in which outsiders status triggers
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discrimination that leads to inadequate resources that inhibit a families functioning and children's development
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In poor and affluent families alike, children's school competence is predicted by
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Closeness to parents
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Parents who follow the interdependent model do all of the following EXCEPT
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Give frequent commands to the child
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Immigrants coming to this country go through a process of
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Acculturation
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An enhanced visitation program that reduced the rate of child abuse for mothers at risk for abuse involved:
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Anger management training
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Development niche is a concept that describes all of the following except:
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the historical time they live in
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Canadian researchers studying how culture shapes the view of the self and in tun behavior found all of the following EXCEPT:
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Even hospitalized teens with a sense of continuity and ties to the fuutre showed suicidal behavior
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