Exam 14: Becoming Part of the Family

Joanna is always asking her teenage daughter where she is going on the weekends and who she will be with.This behavior suggests that Joanna is high on:

Siblings who are close in age tend to have a more advanced understanding of ________ because they have practice thinking and talking about mental states of others.

What parenting style is associated with the best developmental outcomes?

Which type of parents is more likely to use psychological control?

One study examined three groups of poor children: children who entered foster care because of child maltreatment, children who endured maltreatment but remained at home, and those who were not maltreated or put into foster care.This study found:

Jack and Diane are parents of a son and a daughter.Which of the following is LEAST likely to occur?

Who originally proposed the three parenting styles: authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive?

In the United States, recent changes in family structure include all the following EXCEPT:

Family size varies as a function of race.In the United States, which ethnicity is associated with the largest average household size?

Which of the following statements is true about toy preferences in the vervet monkey?

Parents respond more positively to attractive as compared to unattractive infants.This illustrates a(n):

Describe the relation between birth order and intelligence and discuss two potential causes for the birth order effect on intelligence.

Jim commonly discusses science problems with his teenage son and daughter.Which of the following is most likely in the context of these conversations?

Which parenting style is characterized by high warmth and high control?

Bao is a 10-year-old boy growing up in China and Bradley is a 10-year-old boy growing up in the United States.Both boys have mothers who demonstrate what would be considered an authoritarian parenting style.What is the most likely outcome?

________ refers to the ways in which parents engage in behaviors and have attitudes toward their children that create a particular parenting environment or climate.

What type of parent would say: "Do it because I say so!"?

Describe the child behaviors and traits typically associated with each parenting style.

Older siblings influence younger siblings' gender role qualities:

Jaxon is a 3-year-old boy whose parents are getting divorced.Marcela is a 3-year-old girl whose parents are also getting divorced.What is the most likely outcome?