Exam 2: Exploring Relationships and Families

Collecting data over a period of years using documented materials would reflect a(n)

Briefly distinguish between the interactionist and the attachment theoretical perspectives of families.

The conflict and feminist theories call attention to within groups-including families-and within the larger society.

The text observes that most people grow up in some form of family and know something about what marriages and families are. But while personal experience provides us with information, it can also act as

Exchange theory stresses the importance of in family relationships.

Discuss the role of the institutional review board (IRB) in family studies.

When using the research method, a researcher lives with a family, spends extensive time with them, and carefully records their activities, conversations, gestures, and everyday behaviors.

Family systems theory emphasizes that family systems seek , or stable balance and symmetry.

Although we "know" about the family because we have lived in one, our may not tell the whole story.

promote recognition of women's unpaid work and the greater involvement of men in childcare and housework.

Researchers conducting surveys want their samples to be

Science can be defined as a logical system that bases knowledge on systematic observations.

The family ecology perspective stresses the interdependence of all the world's families-not only with one another but also with the physical environment.

According to the family life course development framework, the stage of the family life cycle comes to an end with the arrival of the first child.

When conducting , researchers ask a series of structured, or closed-ended questions.

A photograph in the text depicts individuals waiting patiently for medical attention in a neighborhood clinic. Which group of scholars might remark on the quality of the facilities or speculate about the home that these people live in?

Theoretical perspectives or theories can increase our families and family life.

In an experiment, the group receives no special intervention.

Exploring the discrimination against women, inside the family and in the broader culture, is the focus of the __________ perspective.

A researcher using naturalistic observation must assign people to an experimental group and a control group.