The Family Life Cycle
Families with preschoolers is which stage of the family life cycle?
2
What rules in the family guides action
Regulatory Rules
Name a network a part of the interaction structure
The wheel network: A highly centralized network found in families that communicate through one key figure
The chain network: Family members relay messages to one another via a series of other family members
The all channel network: The most decentralized network of all, it is characteristic of families that spend a lot of time together as a unit in separate dyads
Realizing things will go wrong and will have an impact on your family
Anticipating Change
Some members of an organized unit are affected by changes in one or more parts of the system, this is a definition of what term?
Family as a system
Families with school age children is which stage of the family life cycle
3
True or False, Siblings have the most important relationship in the family subsystems?
False
Name 1 of the 3 decision making structures
Accommodation decision making style: Less articulate or less dominating members of the family five in to those who hold the power or are most persistent
Consensus decision making style: When its members try to make a unanimous decision, seeking input from all members, negotiating differences of opinions or values, and finding a solution that everyone feels is satisfactory
De facto decision making style: A decision in which a single member of the family acts alone or the matter is decided by events, usually after a period of unproductive discussion
What is one way to improve forecasting ability?
Read extensively about individual and family life cycles.
Power within the family is usually based on who has the most authority. In most scenarios, parents have the most power while the kids have less. What kind of family structure is this?
Families with adolescents is which stage of the family life cycle?
4
Recurring attitudes, beliefs, or outlooks on life shared by the entire family. This is definition of...
Family themes and identity
Name an internal and external function of the family
Any of the following:
Internal Functions:
Providing Care
Recreation
Emotional Support
Socialization
Intellectual Development
External Functions:
Cultural Transmission
Accommodation
What strategy relies on not being to disengaged as a family?
Encouraging Family Cohesiveness
In a given family structure, members perform different tasks in relation to one another. What is the term for this?
Role Differentiation
What are the 5th and 6th stages of the family life cycle?
Launching families sending young adults into the world. The empty nest life after children.
"Talking to strangers is terrible" is an example of what type of communication rule?
Constitutive Rules
Name 5 characteristics of what a "good family" looks like
Any of the following:
Have a chief or founder
Have a switchboard operator
Are cohesive but not stifling
Are hospitable
Deal directly with their problems
Prize their rituals
Are openly affectionate
Have a sense of place
Build connections to posterity
Honor their elders
What strategy requires you to have contingency plans as a family?
What is arguably the most important internal function of families?
Emotional support
What are the 1st and 7th stages of the family life cycle?
Young married couples without children. Retirement years.
Traditional, separate, and separate/traditional are all characteristics of what family subsystem?
Husbands and Wives
What are the 2 types of communicative rules we use to determine how a family functions with rules and their identity?
Regulative rules: What describes the kinds of actions that family members are expected to follow.
Constitutive rules: Determine meaning rather than action
Even though families are mostly self sufficient in good times and bad, what strategy benefits families in times of stress
Building Social Networks
What is something families must establish and maintain among its members?