Family Studies: Terms, Definitions, and Parenting Styles, Quizzes of Developmental Psychology

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Family

any two or more individuals living together who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption TERM 2

Nuclear Family

DEFINITION 2 a family consisting of a husband, a wife, and their biological and/or adopted children TERM 3

Emotional Parentification

DEFINITION 3 a situation in which children become more concerned about their parent's emotional needs than their own TERM 4

Extended Family

DEFINITION 4 a family that includes both nuclear family members and other relatives TERM 5

Constructive Conflict

DEFINITION 5 family conflict that is resolved in a positive way using affection, problem solving, and emotional support

Externalizing Behavior Problems

behaviors in which the child or adolescent "acts out" on the environment such as aggressive or destructive behavior TERM 7

Internalizing Behavior Problems

DEFINITION 7 negative or aggressive behaviors that are directed inward at oneself, such as anxiety or depression TERM 8

Stepfamilies

DEFINITION 8 families in which there are two adults and at least one child from a previous relationship of on of the adults; there also may be biological children of the couple TERM 9

Open Adoption

DEFINITION 9 adoptions in which the children hand their biological and adoptive families have access to each other TERM 10

Foster Care

DEFINITION 10 the temporary placement of children in a family that is not their own because of unhealthy y situations within their birth family

Parent Effects Model

a model of parenting effects that assumes that parents cause the characteristics that we see in their children TERM 12

Child Effects Model

DEFINITION 12 a modle of parenting effects that assumes that it is the characteristics of the child that determine the parenting style that the parents use TERM 13

Transactional Model

DEFINITION 13 a model of parenting effects that assumes that influence moves from parent to child but also from child to parent in a reciprocal process TERM 14

Acceptance/Responsiveness

DEFINITION 14 a dimension of parenting that measure the amount of warmth and affection in the parent-child relationship TERM 15

Demandingness/Control

DEFINITION 15 a dimension of parenting that measure the amount of restrictiveness and structure that parents place on their children

Authoritative Parents

A parenting style that combines high levels of control with a good deal of warmth and encouragement, marked with reasonable expectation of the parents' rules TERM 17

Authoritarian Parents

DEFINITION 17 a parenting style that combines high levels of control and low levels of warmth, marked by an expectation of compliance from the child TERM 18

Permissive Parents

DEFINITION 18 a parenting style that provides a great deal of warmth and acceptance but few, if any, rules or restrictions TERM 19

Uninvolved or Neglectful Parents

DEFINITION 19 a parenting style that is low both on the dimension of warmth and on the dimension of control; parents may be disinterested in parent ion or actively reject their children TERM 20

Parenting Styles

DEFINITION 20 Fairly regular and consistent patterns of interacting with children

External Locus of Control

the belief that events are outside of one's own control TERM 22

Nonshared

Environment

DEFINITION 22 the environmental experiences that are different for each child in a family, including the differential impact of family events that occur at different ages for siblings TERM 23

Wraparound Program

DEFINITION 23 a comprehensive set of services offered to families to strengthen them or reunite them