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child development 2
exam 2
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
04/15/2010

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survival of offspring
Definition
Families help to ensure that children survive to maturity by attending to physical needs, health and safety.
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economic function
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Families help to ensure that children survive to maturity by attending to physical needs, health and safety.
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cultural training
Definition
Families teach children the basic values of their culture.
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family dynamics
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The way in which the family operates as a whole
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socialization
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The process through which children acquire the values, standards, skills, knowledge, and behaviors that are regarded as appropriate for their present and future role in their particular culture.
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parenting styles
Definition
Parenting behaviors and attitudes that set the emotional climate in regard to parent-child interactions, such as parental responsiveness and demandingness
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authoritative parents
Definition
Are demanding but not warm in responsive. They are usually cold and unresponsive to their children's needs.
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permissive parents
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Are responsive but quite lenient (they are not very demanding) and do not require their children to regulate themselves or act in appropriate ways.
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authoritarian parents
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Are demanding but not warm in responsive. They are usually cold and unresponsive to their children's needs.
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rejecting-neglecting parents
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Are low in demandingness and responsiveness, as they do not ask anything of their children because they simply do not pay attention to them. They are not supportive of them at all.
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bidirectionality of parent-child interactions
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the idea that parents and their children are mutually afffected by each other's characteristics and behaviors
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