Exam 2: Exploring Relationships and Families

The interaction-constructionist perspective looks only at the interaction between the family and the family's external environment.

The perspective explores how a family influences and is influenced by the environments that surround it.

The informed consent of human subjects is only necessary in dangerous research.

In the researcher spends extensive time with respondents and carefully records their activities, conversations, gestures, and other aspects of everyday life.

Evolutionary psychology is an alternate term for which perspective?

The aim of qualitative research is to gain in-depth understandings of people's experiences.

Think of a family-related topic and consider how you might study it. What theoretical perspective would you use to help frame your research questions? What research methods and data gathering techniques would you use?

According to the family life course development framework, each developmental task has a certain order in which major transitions to adult roles take place, called .

Today's family ecologists stress the interdependence of all the world's families, not only with one another but also with our planet's environment.

A central focus of the feminist theory is on issues.

Closed-ended survey questions allow respondents to write in their own answer.

According to attachment theory, if an individual is able to recognize a problematic attachment style they may be able to change it.

Empirical evidence includes things we know intuitively, that cannot be verified with our senses.

Theories help us understand a situation or event from a particular viewpoint. Analyze your transition to college from the viewpoint of structure-functional theory. Describe the various functions your family performed in order for you to make it to college. What would you identify as having been the most important functions your family performed? Why?

A photograph in the text depicts individuals waiting patiently for medical attention in a neighborhood clinic. Which group of scholars might point out that, typically, it is mothers and not fathers who are primarily responsible for their children's health-and ask why?

Andre is a family therapist who is interested in how husbands cope when they are the victims of physical abuse suffered at the hands of their wives. He makes an intensive study of the five husbands who are currently his clients for therapy sessions because they suffer physical abuse from this source. Andre is using which type of research method?

The climate, soil, plants, and animals are all part of the environment.

Studying social change in the family can be best understood through data.

A significant disadvantage of using case studies is that

The conflict perspective is the opposite of the ; it assumes that not all family behaviors and practices contribute to family well-being.