Exam 3: Approaches to Parenting Research

Dr. Dix conducts studies about different types of parenting goals. His research focus would follow the ______ approach.

A human Behavioral Genetics approach to parenting research relies strictly on twin studies.

The Child Effects approach focuses on how children ______.

Does Baumrind's trait approach to child-rearing (authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive) capture your own parent(s) style? Give at least three examples to support your view. Give an example of how the approach provides only a limited description of your parent(s).

Two-year old twins Michael and Mitchell suffer from delayed development due to their birth mother's poor nutrition during pregnancy. In using these twins as part of an adoption study, the apparent ______ between the twins could be attributed to this ______ factor.

Albert was a harsh taskmaster with his children. He often barked at his children, "It will be my way or the highway!" Baumrind's ______ parenting trait best fits Albert's behavior.

It has been found that safety of one's neighborhood can mediate the relationship between emotional support and nurturance. Which of the following demonstrates a strengthening of the two variables when a mother receives support from her neighbor if a neighbor not deemed to be dangerous?

List four ways that different approaches to parenting research can be compared.

A criticism of the Parenting Traits approach is that it does not reveal the ______.

Approaches to studying parenting that are both global and aggregated include Child Effects, Social Address, and Behavioral Genetics.

Dr. Sing Lau conducted research on how parenting affects academic performance in children. His participants were located in Hong Kong, the United States, and Australia. He was interested in finding out the differences between these groups of parents. His type of research would most likely be labeled the ______ approach.

Based on previous research, one could assume that about two thirds of a population of delinquent boys have fathers with a criminal record.

From a social learning perspective, it is more effective to administer punishment than to promote desired behavior in a child.

Discuss why a polarized nature versus nurture view of behavior is ill-advised.

In the case of parenting research and behavioral genetics, the central question is: ______.

According to the Social Learning approach, the best way for parents to teach children how to behave is to ______.

In a parent-child relationship, parents and children learn from their interactions, and their subsequent interactions reflect that learning. This idea has been labeled ______.

Dr. Jones explored the effects of children's temperament and parents' personality over time. She found that due to their ongoing interactions, children's temperament affected parents' personalities and parents' personalities affected the children's temperament. This affect is best described as ______.

Research approaches that utilize ______ allow researchers to find relationships between many related variables.

The ______ approach requires careful, microanalytic observations.