DEP Exam 3 Questions With Correct
Answers
Authoritarian Parenting - answer✔✔Attempts to shape, control and evaluate a childs behavior.
Obedience is stressed, verbal give and take is discouraged
Behavioral outcome (authoritarian parenting) - answer✔✔Children tend to be disconnected,
withdrawn, and distrustful
Authoritative parenting - answer✔✔Provides firm but nurturing direction for a child's overall
activities. Freedom is given with reasonable limits. The parent provides reasons for given
policies
Behavioral outcome (authoritative parenting) - answer✔✔Child has a healthy sense of autonomy
and positive attitudes toward work. Child tends to be self reliant, self-controlled, explorative and
contented
Permissive parenting - answer✔✔Parents seek to provide a no punitive accepting and affirmative
environment in which the children regulate their own behavior as much as possible. Parents
make few demands
Behavioral outcome (permissive parenting) - answer✔✔Child lacks sense of inner control, may
have diffused values and may engage in counter-productive, antisocial behavior as a result of a
lack of self crew
Harmonious parenting - answer✔✔Parenting seldom exercise direct control over their children.
The child is not placed in a power disadvantage. Major objective is to maintain a tranquil
relationship with the child
Behavioral outcome (harmonious parenting) - answer✔✔Females are extraordinarily competent,
independent, friendly, achievement oriented and intelligent. Males are cooperative, but
submissive, aimless dependent, and not achievement oriented
Theories of personality development - answer✔✔Freud, erikson, behavioral, cognitive
perspective, ecological view
Freud Theory - answer✔✔Early childhood experience determine character of adult personality;
fixation occurs if not allowed to suck until child is ready to be weaned
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Erikson theory - answer✔✔Child's essential task is to develop trust; maintained that each stage
of life required its own social crisis resolution
Behavioral theory (Waston) - answer✔✔Rewards and punishment contingencies determine
child's personality
Cognitive perspective (Piaget) - answer✔✔Focused on how children reasoned
Ecological View (Bronfenbrenner) - answer✔✔Variety of environmental influences contribute
to child's social and emotional development
Attachment- First Stage - answer✔✔Birth to 2 months; infants aroused by human and nonhuman
aspects of the environment
Attachment- second stage - answer✔✔3rd to 6th months; responsive to human beings whether
familiar or unfamiliar
Attachment- third stage - answer✔✔7 months; specific attachment; preference for a particular
person
Mary Ainsworth - answer✔✔Specific attachment by 6th month in Ugandan infants
Ethological and Learning perspective - answer✔✔Ways attachments form
Ethologist - answer✔✔Parent as elicitor or releaser
Learning theorists - answer✔✔Parent neutral stimulus; later secondary reinforcer
Functions of attachment - answer✔✔-attachment behavioral system
-fear-wariness system
-Affiliative behavioral system
-Exploratory behavioral system
Spearman - answer✔✔General intellectual ability; g-factor, s-factor
Stern - answer✔✔Mental age divided by chronological age times 100= IQ
Guilford - answer✔✔120 factors in intellectual functioning
Wescheler - answer✔✔Global capacity to understand the world, to think rationally, and to cope
resourcefully with the challenges of life
Content validity - answer✔✔Test measures what it is designed to measure