HDFS & History
HDFS Research
HDFS Theories I
HDFS Theories II
Family Life Education, Professional Development, & Ethics
100

This is a group of people united by blood, marriage, or law.

What is a family?

100

This method of research relies on collecting data in an organized manner to uncover answers to a specific set of questions.

What is Empirical research?

100

This is a set of interconnected ideas that logically explain a particular pattern of behaviors and events.

What is a theory?

100

This theory suggests that individuals attach different meanings to things and events.

What is symbolic interaction theory?

100

These provide general guidelines for behavior in professional settings.

What are Ethical codes?

200

HDFS has commonly been called this type of major.

What is a discovery major?

200

Research addressing the problem of cyberbullying among middle school students might be considered this type of research.

What is applied research?

200

This cognitive developmental theorist argued that children pass through four stages of cognitive development.

Who is Jean Piaget?

200

This is the idea that behavior is learned through a process of reinforcement.

What is operant conditioning?

200

"CFLE" stands for this title.

What is Certified Family Life Educator?

300

This is the field in which HDFS has its historical roots.

What is Home Economics?

300

This research methodology might involve the collection of data prior to and after the intervention is given. 

What is longitudinal research?

300

This attachment theorist developed the “Strange Situation” paradigm to assess children’s attachment style.

Who is Mary Ainsworth?

300

In Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model, this system highlights that time is an essential component to human development.

What is the chronosystem?

300

This formatting style is used in HDFS to credit sources in our written work.

Whats is American Psychological Association (APA)?

400

This term referred to places Home Economics students could experience and apply the principles they learned in classes.

What are living labs?

400

This part of the research process involves sharing research findings in a wide-spread manner at professional meetings/conferences, in peer-reviewed journals, or to the general public in formats that are easily understood such as a fact sheet.

What is dissemination? 

400

This theory argues that people learn through personal experience, direct communication, and modelling.

What is social learning theory?

400

This theory posits that tensions, stressors and divergent interests are an integral and normal part of family life

What is conflict theory?

400

These are shared attitudes, values, beliefs, and behaviors in any given profession.

What are professional dispositions? 

500

This is the most prominent lab school that continues to exist on many campuses today and provides an opportunity for students to observe and interact with young children and families.

What is a Child Development Laboratory?

500

This is the type of sampling that allows the results of the study to be generalized to a great degree.

What is probability sampling?

500

This theory proposes that development occurs within a number of nested and interactive environmental systems.

What is Bioecological systems theory?

500

This theory examines families with the idea that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts"

What is family systems theory?
500

This occurs when a decision has to be made on how to weigh competing morals.

What is an ethical dilemma? 

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