Chapter 11 Theory
The theory of personality development in children developed by Sigmund Freud.
Psychoanalytic theory
socially sanctioned actions to legally terminate marriage.
Divorce
Child psychologists and family therapists recommend that, if possible, spouses should be together when they tell their children about their divorce. What is one of the topics she recommends parents discuss?
Parents should reaffirm their love and commitment to their children, and assure them they will always take care of them.
Parents should assure children that they are not responsible for the divorce.
Parents should speak honestly and simply, but they should leave out all the ugly details.
Anything that elicits a physiological and/or psychological response to any stimuli.
Stressor
Based on statistical averages, the age at which adults are expected to die is anywhere from 68 to 80, depending on a person’s race and gender.
Life expectancy
B. F. Skinner’s theory that children learn behaviors as a result of a series of rewards and punishments.
Operant Conditioning
Money typically paid monthly by one spouse to the other during and after the divorce proceedings.
Alimony
How ex-spouses act toward each other and toward the children impacts children's adjustment. What are some things parents should keep in mind?
Children should never be forced to side with one parent over the other; they are not pawns or weapons to be used to hurt the other parent,
Children should never be used as messengers, and parents should never speak badly about the other parent to the children.
Child support issues should never be talked about in front of children.
A stressor that is “good stress,” “positive stress,” or “productive stress.”
Eustressor
Scientists who study aging.
Gerontologists
Theories that focus on how children think and how they understand their world.
Cognitive Theories
Money, typically paid monthly, by a spouse for the costs associated with raising children under 18 years old.
Child Support
True or False
Angry, hurting, vengeful ex-spouses can make angry, hurting, vengeful parents. Even though it is understandable that ex-spouses want little interaction with each other, parents need to make co-parenting work for the sake of the children.
True
A stressor that is “bad stress,” “negative stress,” or “harmful stress.”
Distressor
Basic biological processes that are genetically programmed to occur over time.
Primary Aging
Theories maintaining that children’s development does not occur by stages but through direct interaction with culture, which shapes their values, goals, and expectations.
Sociocultural theories
An arrangement in which both parents have an equal say in a child’s upbringing.
Legal shared custody
alternative term for stepfamilies.
Blended Families
Stress that lasts a relatively short time.
Acute Stress
Physiological declines that are the result of environmental and behavioral influences, which significantly affect how we age.
Secondary Aging
Promotes the idea that single-parent households were negative experiences for children for the sole reason that the family structure was not nuclear.
Family Deficit Model:
Such things as ’personality, attitudes, and skills. For example, some people handle stress differently than others, and some people exhibit extreme anger while others hold their feelings inside.
Individual Traits
When adults remarry, they inherit new responsibilities and obligations to their new family. These additional responsibilities may cause added strain, and may include what?
Financial difficulties.
Adjusting to new parenting roles.
Establishing discipline
Bonding as a couple
Grieving past losses
Long-lasting stress
Chronic
Stereotypical attitudes toward the aging and elderly.
Ageism