FAML 400 Theories Exam 1 Verified 2024
3 stages of the cycle of violence and the 3 characteristics of the cycle. - ANSWER-
Anger builds> Violence Occurs>Honeymoon
3 characteristics:
Reinforces violence
Faster each time
More severe each time
Assumptions - ANSWER-Beliefs, or things that we assume are true, accepted as true
without being tested, basic beliefs
Blau's four conditions (know how this relates to domestic violence) - ANSWER-I. The
fewer services people can supply in return for the receipt of particularly valued services,
the more those providing these particularly valued services can extract compliance.
II. The fewer alternative sources of rewards people have, the more those providing
valuable services can extract compliance.
III. The less those receiving valuable services from particular individuals can employ
physical force and coercion, the more those providing the services can extract
compliance.
IV. The less those receiving the valuable services can do without them, the more those
providing the services can extract compliance
Burr's six important aspects of general theories - ANSWER-Perspective: theories helps
us have a lens to look through.
Concepts: terms and ideas in a theory are operationalized-they are given specific
definitions so everyone using them understands exactly what they are talking about
Assumptions: "the starting point for our reasoning" the underlying beliefs that are in the
background of the theory
History: Theories grow and evolve people add to it or do spin offs and so on.
Generality: Highly general theories are more valuable than specific theories, the more
people the theory applies to the better
Explanations: the whole point of a theory, explanations are the truths that we can find
through a theory people refer to them as laws, postulates, propositions etc
Comparison Level - ANSWER-Comparing us to someone that's in the same situation as
us, a similar situation to us, or comparing ourselves to what we expected for ourselves.
, Comparison Level for Alternatives - ANSWER-Comparing our situation to alternative
options to our situation. (example: If I was married to someone else then...)
Concepts - ANSWER-Building Blocks of a theory, different variables
Conflict Paradigm - ANSWER-Oppressor wants to keep things the same, the oppressed
want to change things ex: Feminist Theory (have and have not)
Cost - ANSWER-Anything disliked by an individual
ex: punishment or lack of rewards.
Critiques of Family Development Theory - ANSWER-- Assumes all families are the
same
- Families are unpredictable due to non-developmental tasks ( Divorced families or step
families)
- Doesn't generate research
It describes too much
Critiques of Social Exchange theory - ANSWER-- It is too simplistic
- It does not explain how the love and other emotional elements are possible in the
family life
- It does not explain altruistic behavior
- It assumes that everyone is looking out of their own self interest
Deductive Reasoning - ANSWER-Theories inform our research
THEORY>HYPOTHESIS>OBSERVATION>CONFIRMATION
Broad to specific
Equity - ANSWER-Norm of reciprocity. Central to maintaining social relationships.
People should give to those that give.
Homans' Exchange Propositions (do not need to memorize all points, just have general
idea) - ANSWER-I. Success Proposition: For all actions taken by persons, the more
often a particular action of a person is rewarded, the most likely the person is to perform
that action.
II. Stimulus Proposition: If in the past the occurrence of a particular stimulus or set of
stimuli has been the occasion on which a person's action has been rewarded, then, the
most similar the present stimuli are to the past ones, the more likely the person is to
perform the action or some similar action now.
III. Value Proposition: The more valuable to a person is the result of his action, the most
likely he is to perform the action.
IV. Deprivation/Satiation Proposition: The more often in the recent past a person has
received a particular reward, the less valuable any further unit of that reward becomes
for him.
V. Aggression/Approval Propositions: a. When a person's action does not receive the
reward he expected or receives punishment he did not expect, he will be angry and
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