Theorists & Theories
This ecological theory includes microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem.
What is Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory?
This type of family includes two parents and their biological children.
What is a nuclear family?
This parenting style is strict and expects obedience.
What is authoritarian parenting?
This term refers to people of the same age or maturity level.
What are peers?
This type of adoption allows contact between biological and adoptive parents.
What is open adoption?
This theorist developed the stages of moral development, including preconventional and postconventional reasoning.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
This term describes beliefs about what is important and how people should act.
What are values?
This parenting style encourages independence but sets clear limits.
What is authoritative parenting?
This type of peer group is small and closely connected.
What is a clique?
This is when peer pressure to antisocial behavior peaks.
When is around 8th and 9th grade?
In Freud’s theory, this is the “moral part” of personality.
What is the superego?
This refers to when a person’s moral beliefs are central to their identity.
What is moral identity?
This discipline technique involves taking away love or approval.
What is love withdrawal?
This occurs when behavior and peer rejection influence each other. When X influences Y and Y influences X.
What is a bidirectional effect?
This is one positive outcome of romantic breakups.
What is self-reported personal growth?
This theorist emphasized self-regulation in moral development.
Who is Albert Bandura?
This Austrian psychotherapist was the primary developer of birth order theory.
Who is Alfred Adler?
This process describes how parents and children influence each other.
What is reciprocal socialization?
This term describes how liked or disliked someone is in a peer group.
What is sociometric status?
This family type forms when two people with children from previous relationships marry.
What is a blended family?
This concept explains how people justify bad behavior so they don’t feel guilty.
What is moral disengagement?
This term describes the ability to let go of childlike dependence on parents and gain independence.
What is emotional autonomy?
This term describes confusion about roles and responsibilities in a family.
What is boundary ambiguity?
Name 1 of the functions of friendship.
What are...
Companionship
Stimulation
Physical support
Ego support
Social comparison
Intimacy/affection
This group tends to live the longest and healthiest lives.
Who are happily married individuals?