Exam 3: Approaches to Parenting Research

Which of the following approaches provides the most flexibility for studying determinants of parental behavior and direction of influence?

The Social Address Approach has which time frame for causal relations?

Patterson's research revealed that the mothers were inadvertently reinforcing coercive behaviors when they "gave up" at attempts to discipline their sons. The boys learned that by escalating their coercive behavior, they would "win" the battle, a dynamic revealed using the Parent Cognition Approach.

A father deciding to become his son's basketball coach in response to the child's interest in playing the sport is an example of which parenting approach?

A moderator is a variable that affects the strength or direction of a relation between two other variables. A mediator, on the other hand, typically refers to variables that change how or why two other variables are associated.

Angelina's adopted children were born in poverty. She wonders if her knowledge of their challenging early beginnings will affect her parenting behaviors. To investigate whether her thoughts will affect her behaviors, Angelina should consult a researcher who takes a ______ approach

Dr. Probst examined data from the National Survey of Children's Health for European American (Caucasian) families and Native American Indian families. She was interested in finding out if there were differences between these two cultures in parenting behaviors. Her research follows the Social ______ approach.

Dr. Jones prefers to use an integrated approach for studying parent-child relationships. Using the Person-Process-Context model of development, she recognizes the dynamic interactions between variables and context by merging which approaches?

The ______ approach seeks to understand what parents are thinking about their children and child-rearing.

In a study published in 2014, 33 mothers were audio-recorded for up to six nights, documenting their home interactions with their preschool-age children. This provided invaluable data on incidents of spanking or slapping, which were captured due to the method's ______.

When Max started to throw a tantrum at home, his mother turned and left the room. According to the Social Learning perspective, his mother was ______ by ignoring his bad behavior.

Christine was an authoritative parent. When her children were growing up, she gave them many opportunities to make age-appropriate choices. By doing this, she likely encouraged the development of their ______.

According to the Social Address approach to understanding parents and their children, ______ is the variable that determines how parents rear their children.

A parent asking the question, "Why does my child act in a certain way?", in an attempt to establish causality, is an example of which of the following type of parental cognition?

Dr. Belsky proposed that parenting and other environmental influences do not affect all children equally. This differential susceptibility effect fits best with the ______ approach.

Brandon and Jackson are dizygotic twins. This means they ______.

Identify six types of child characteristics that can influence parenting. For three of those characteristics, discuss how they can affect child-rearing.

Placing a pink or a blue hat on a newborn can cause the descriptions about the same baby to change from "delicate" and "tiny" to "big" and "strong." This is an example of how ______ can affect a parent's interactions with a child.

Parenting behaviors are negatively affected by marital conflict and, like a link in a causal chain, the change in parenting quality then affects teenager's adjustment. That means that at least part of adverse effects on teens is due to the way conflict alters the quality of parenting. This is an example of a ______ effect.

The "direction of effects" issue related to the Parental Traits approach to parenting research is best described as which of the following?