Exam 3: Approaches to Parenting Research

Twins Brooke and LouAnn are being used in an adoption study. Brooke lives with her biological parents, while LouAnn lives with her adoptive parents. Despite the fact that LouAnn happens to share similar characteristics with her adoptive parents, it is safe to assume that the correlation is not significant enough to include in statistical modeling.

After 3-year-old Tim whined for a candy bar for several minutes, his mother gave up and gave in to his demands. Based on a Social Learning Theory perspective, Tim's mother ______.

Researchers who adopt a Social Learning approach to understanding parents and their child-rearing behaviors might focus on ______.

According to the Child Effects Approach, physical or personal attributes that influence parenting include all of the following EXCEPT ______.

Which of the following approaches takes the most specificity into account?

Diana and her daughter have a healthy, interdependent relationship. They take turns in conversation and Diana is attuned to her daughter's exchanges and vice versa. Which of the following best describes this so-called, "dance" between parent and infant?

Baumrind's Child-Rearing Traits theory focused on how much ______ parents exhibited.

Which of the following statements is most TRUE regarding the Parenting Traits approach to child-rearing research?

The ______ approach was a reaction to the unidirectional view of influence embodied in the Parental Traits approach.

According to the text, the Social Address approach is a good first step in documenting differences between groups of parents. However, the author warns that ______ may be ignored when researchers employ this approach.

Margaret Mead's study on inhabitants of the island of Samoa laid the groundwork for other investigations utilizing the Social Address approach.

Parents characterized by their intrusive and general over-involvement in their children's lives are known as ______ parents.

The Parenting Traits approach summarizes parent's behavior using ______.

Delia was determined to parent in a more thoughtful way than she had been parented. She planned ahead to reduce conflict, reflected on what worked and what did not, and effectively solved problems if they occurred. By anticipating, reflecting, and problem-solving, Delia was ______.

During their interactions, Joanna and her toddler show very brief (0.3-1.0 s) variations in their looking, head movements, and pauses. According to the Ecological Momentary Process approach, through these actions, they ______.

In comparison to approaches such as the Social Address Approach, the Behavioral Genetics Approach provides a more balanced approach by assessing the role of genetic inheritance in behavioral outcomes.

A ______ is a variable that affects the strength or direction of a relation between an independent variable and a dependent variable.

Discuss the pros and cons of co-sleeping with infants. Do you think it is a healthy practice to engage in with infants?

In which of the following pairs does the approach NOT relate to the topics that follow?

Which of the following approaches acknowledges bidirectional influences?