FAML 400 Family Theories Exam 1 Questions and Answers
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FAML 400
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FAML 400
Positivism - Answer-Very objective world view/ scientific paradigm. There is only one truth and it does not depend on beliefs or opinions.
Example: Social Exchange Theory
Interpretive - Answer-There is no real one truth, it depends because everyone sees it in their own perspective ex: Symbolic...
FAML 400 Family Theories Exam 1
Questions and Answers
Positivism - Answer-Very objective world view/ scientific paradigm. There is only one
truth and it does not depend on beliefs or opinions.
Example: Social Exchange Theory
Interpretive - Answer-There is no real one truth, it depends because everyone sees it in
their own perspective ex: Symbolic Interactionism
Conflict Paradigm - Answer-Oppressor wants to keep things the same, the oppressed
want to change things ex: Feminist Theory (have and have not)
What do theories do for us? - Answer-They help us predict, describe, and explain
behavior.
What is the purpose of theory? - Answer-To increase knowledge, accumulate research,
guidance, connectedness, interpretation, prediction, and explanation
What makes up a theory? - Answer-Assumptions, Concepts,
Propositions
Assumptions - Answer-Beliefs, or things that we assume are true, accepted as true
without being tested, basic beliefs
Concepts - Answer-Building Blocks of a theory, different variables
Propositions - Answer-How the concepts relate together
Negative Correlation - Answer-As variable x goes up, variable y goes down.
OR As variable x goes down, variable y goes up.
Positive Correlation - Answer-As variable x goes up, variable y goes up.
OR As variable x goes down, variable y goes down.
Which is broader, scientific paradigms or theories? - Answer-Scientific Paradigms-
because theories fit into specific paradigms.
Deductive Reasoning - Answer-Theories inform our research
THEORY>HYPOTHESIS>OBSERVATION>CONFIRMATION
Broad to specific
Inductive Reasoning - Answer-Research can form our theories.
INFORMATION>PATTERN>TENTATIVE HYPOTHESIS>THEORY
, Specific to Broad
Ways in which families differ from other social groups - Answer-- Length of association
- Intergenerational
- Biological/affinal (affectionate) ties
- Large Kinship Organization
Know what the Assumption of Universality means (from Family
Development Theory) - Answer-- FDT assumes all families go through the stages in the
same way.
What are the benefits/advantages of Family Development Theory? - Answer-- Can help
us see what the family is struggling with
ex: Failure to complete a task within a stage.
- It is useful in explaining patterned change, the dynamic nature of the family and how
change occurs in the family cycle
- Helps us see that family development affects individual development and vice versa.
Stages of FDT. What tasks need to be accomplished in what
Stage? - Answer--Married Couple Task: Establish mutually satisfying relationship
-Childbearing Task: Having, adjusting to, and encouraging the dev. of infants
-Preschool Age Task: Coping with energy and depletion and lack of privacy
-School Age Task: Encouraging child educational achievement
-Teenage Task: Balancing freedom and responsibility
-Launching Center Task: Maintaining supportive home base
-Middle-Age Parents Task: Refocus on marriage/ Maintain kin ties
-Aging Family Members Task: Cope w/ bereavement/ Adjust to retirement
What is the main point of the article about Reason and Revelation by Elder
Oaks? - Answer-We need both reason and revelation. If they disagree we go with
Revelation.
Norm of Reciprocity - Answer-People should help those who have helped them.
Rule of Distributive Justice - Answer-Rewards to each person in a relationship will be
proportional to the respective costs of each and that the net result for each person will
be proportional to the investment of each in the relationship.
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