Exam 2: Exploring Relationships and Families

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

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

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.

Suzanne and Paul obtained a complete list of all 500 students in their marriage and family class. Starting with the first student on the list, each student was assigned a number ranging from 1 to 500. Then, Paul and Suzanne selected for their study every 10^th number on the list. Clearly, they were trying to ensure that their research

The __________ perspective sees the family as a social institution that performs certain essential functions for a society.

The ______ perspective calls attention to unequal power within the family.

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?

A strength of the __________ perspective is that it challenges the idea that family success depends solely on individual effort.

The process by which family identity, traditions, and commitment emerge through interaction within a particular family, is an important part of which perspective?

A significant disadvantage of using case studies is that

Briefly distinguish between the family ecology perspective and the family systems perspective.

Though there is no "typical" American family today, advocates supporting the __________ perspective frequently argue that the heterosexual nuclear family is the norm, while their opponents refuse to view the nuclear family as normal, natural, or best.

The __________ perspective once argued for the functionality of specialized gender roles.

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

The family ecology perspective believes every family is embedded in a set of  _________, which exist outside of the family and influence it.

What marks the end of the family life cycle, according to the text?

According to the text, a national random sample of approximately __________ persons can validly represent the U.S. population.

You have been trying to encourage a classmate to enroll in the marriage and family course you are presently taking. Your friend states that he does not need to learn about families because he knows all he needs to know from his own "experience." Using scientific investigation, present an argument against personal experience as a means to adequately understand marriage and families.

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?

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