Exam 11: Parenting Life Now

During this stage of his Psychoanalytic Theory, Freud believed that the sensual energies subsided for a time.

________ promoted his theory of classical conditioning. According to this theory, people make associations between two events. For example, babies open their mouths and smack their lips when their parent puts them in a highchair, or when their parent opens the jar of baby food.

Despite the efforts in the 20th and 21st centuries to more actively involve fathers in childcare and childrearing, we cannot escape the ways in which we have been socialized.

________ is known as "the grandfather of psychology."

A woman's relationship with her mother does not influence Maternal Role Attainment.

In the Risk and Protector Factor Model of single parent families, the weaknesses in the family system that can have a potentially negative impact on families and children are referred to as _____.

At this age, children become aware of and begin to absorb socially prevailing stereotypes, feelings, and ideas about people, including themselves.

With the majority of mothers today working at least 30 hours per week outside the home, the expectation that they are still responsible for the lion's share of running the household and performing household tasks can become a source of resentment for working mothers. Hochschild referred to this burden of taking on the duel responsibilities of wage-earner and housekeeper as ________.

Parent educator and author Chris Theisen notes that there are eight essential parenting responsibilities. Which of the following is NOT one of Theisen's resposibilities?

The social construction of fatherhood changes over time.

Compare and contrast "routine housework" with "residual task" in the household.

Sometimes fathers perceive that their parental involvement is higher than mothers report. This difference is referred to as _____.

Children and adolescents of permissive parents experience higher levels of depression, poorer school performance, poorer psychological adjustment and well-being, and greater use of substances.

Fathering has little bearing on a child's financial future.

One of the base goals of parenting is to meet the ________ needs of infants, which include the provision of food, shelter, safety, security, and love.

Research seems to indicate that the division of labor along traditional gender roles is slowly giving way to changing roles of men and women in contemporary society.

Several bodies of research that investigated the division of family work and parental responsibilities showed that women's socialization-and the inherent cultural notion that she will always be the better parent-creates in the mother a difficulty in relinquishing her traditional role. This is described as _____.

What is "mothering"?

According to Coltrane, what factors contribute to the division of household chores?

Sometimes grandparents assume the role of parents to make sure their grandchildren are in a safe, stable environment in the absence of their biological parents. This exhibits which category of "grandparents as parents"?