A system of fibers that allows signals to travel within the brain.
What is wiring?
100
Form of discipline when parents threaten children or suggest some form of parent/child separation
What is love-withdrawal?
100
A state funded or private agency licensed by the state to handle adoptions
What is an adoption agency?
100
Term used to refer to a person who is unable to conceive after a year of trying
What is infertile?
100
Families with members from two or more cultural groups
What is a multicultural family?
200
Cells in the brain that send and receive electrical impulses
What are neurons?
200
Form of discipline in which parents use or threaten some form of physical punishment
What is power-assertion?
200
An adoption where the adoptive family has no contact with the birth parents
What is a closed adoption?
200
A law that protects the rights of workers to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year for various family-related reasons
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act?
200
Stages that show family changes
What is the family life cycle?
300
Ability of the brain to weed out unused connections
What is pruning?
300
Form of discipline in which parents reason and explain
What is induction?
300
The type of adoption where the birth family and adoptive family keep lines of communication open where the child is concerned
What is an open adoption?
300
The time a man takes off from work for a set period of time after a child's birth or adoption
What is paternity leave?
300
Time when a person can learn a new task because the body is physically ready, caregivers encourage and support, and the child feels a strong desire to learn
What is a teachable moment?
400
The ability of the brain to change or adapt to the evironment.
What is brain plasticity?
400
Type of parenting style where parents give children almost no guidelines or rules
What is permissive?
400
An adoption where a child is bought or sold
What is an illegal market adoption? (Black Market Adoption)
400
Decisions couples make about the desired number and spacing of children
What is family planning?
400
Results of studies that describe how humans are alike
What are the principles of growth and development?
500
Prime period in a child's life for developing a particular skill
What is a window of opportunity?
500
Words or actions parents use to influence their child's behavior
What is guidance?
500
A type of adoption arranged by the birthparents, adoptive family, and usually one other person
What is an independent adoption?
500
Methods infertile couples can use to help them concieve
What are assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs)?
500
Medical evaluation that seeks to determine the reasons for fertility problems and explore available treatment options