Exam 12: Section 2: The Family

Rex and Paul are both young children who attend high-quality centre-based child care. Rex is from a low-income family and Paul is from a working-class family. What are the likely effects on their behaviour if they are in child care for extensive hours?

Children of which type of parents tend to have disturbed attachment relationships as infants and a wide range of problems in adolescence, including promiscuous sexual behaviour, substance abuse, and depression?

Which statement about children's characteristics and behaviour and the parenting process is true?

Which statement about cultural differences in the effect of parenting style on child outcome is true?

For parents who have been separated for a while, which pattern is the LEAST common?

Which factor is associated with a decreased likelihood of children experiencing negative consequences from their parents' divorce?

Which child is probably LEAST likely to exhibit adjustment problems?

Which statement about sibling relationships is true?

Compared to children whose parents do not divorce, children of divorce are:

Children of which type of parents tend to be low in social and academic competence, unhappy and unfriendly, and low in self-confidence, but do not tend to be particularly low in self-control or to be particularly high in impulsivity?

Authoritative parents are those who:

Research has demonstrated that which parental practice is associated with less hostility in sibling relationships?

The large-scale study of the effects of child care that was funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Development demonstrated which finding about the effects of child care on children's cognitive development?

The MOST accurate statement about the effects of divorce on children is that divorce has effects on:

What conclusion have researchers interested in family dynamics come to in regard to development?

For Chinese-American and Chinese children, which parenting practice(s) is(are) related to negative outcomes?

Differential treatment of siblings by parents is less detrimental to children when:

The divorce rate was between _____ in 2013.

The process through which children acquire the values, standards, skills, knowledge, and behaviours that are necessary for their role in their culture is referred to as:

Which factor is NOT associated with better integration of a stepparent into a family?