Test 5 Recall Terms

Maintenance model (MM): What is (claimed to be) maintained?

• The Maintenance Model of marriage rests on the doctrine that God has ordained, and requires Christians to maintain, a hierarchy in which the father is the head of the family, the mother is second in command, and the children hold the lowest status in the home

How does the MM interpret the Greek word Kephale?

• The Greek work kephale has been translated "head" in English and is often thought to imply authority (like the head of a corporation)

• Paul states that man is the “kephale” of woman

Restoration model (RM): What is (claimed to be) restored?

• It rests on the premise that hierarchical gender relationships are the result of the Fall, not God's design at creation

How does the RM interpret the Greek word Kephale?

• It explains that kephale has many meanings, one of which is “source” or “beginning” and that the word rarely connoted authority in Greek literature of the period

How does the RM interpret the Hebrew phrase Ezer Kenegdo (recall/contrast with MM interpretation)

• In Genesis 2, God declares "I wilI make (the man) a helper as his partner" (or I will make him a ‘ezer kenegdo’)

• Christians who ascribe to the partnership position do not assume a subservient 'ezer kenegdo because kenegdo has many meanings including "a power equal to," and 'ezer usually refers to God or a powerful human assisting someone of lower social status. With respect to creation order, Restoration-Model Christians point out that it is difficult to defend the argument that a prior-created being is superior to a subsequently created being when man is created prior to the animals and woman

What analogy does the author use to demonstrate that social institutions CAN function with more than one “head.” (VanderStoep)

• “Some contend that a marriage lacking a single head cannot work and even that anything with two heads is a monster”

  • As single vs 2-headed monster?

Why are psychologists particularly concerned about the emphasis placed on female obedience in the MM?

• They’re concerned because the human compulsion to obey legitimate authority figures is typically stronger than our propensity to act morally and responsibly (Hofling study of nurses)

Hofling study of nurses (recall/apply)

• 22 hospital nurses received a phone call from an unknown doctor who instructed them to give an obvious overdose of medication to one of the patients in their care. Despite hospital policies that prohibit nurses from dispensing medication without a written order, and other nurses' predictions that the unsuspecting research participants would not, 21 of the 22 nurses in the study obeyed without delay. In other words, competent, caring, moral professionals in a situation defined by hierarchical roles simply followed the script (doctor orders; nurse obeys) even when a higher authority (hospital policy) dictated that they do otherwise.

  • If nurses who have been specifically trained not to do so, obey their "next-higher-ups" without balking, how much more so are wives likely to defer unthinkingly to husbands when they conceive of husbands' authority as ordained by God?

Name of the love hormone

• Oxytocin

#1 topic of conflict post-baby

• Division of labor (who’s doing what)

Mental yardsticks to measure childcare: his & hers

• Her yardstick: what I’m doing (shows that he’s doing a lot less)

• His yardstick: what my dad did (shows I’m doing a lot more)

Erikson’s stage 7 (recall name of stage)

• generativity vs. stagnation

Three reasons that Europe/Industrialized Asia have lower teen employment (recall 2)

• Go to school for more hours

• Have vocational-oriented internships

• A stigma for parents

Maximum hours per week that students should work (recall the “danger point”)

• 20 hours

Risks associated with unemployment in midlife (recall 2)

• Poor health

• Marital conflict

• Higher rates of suicide

Process of divorce: not me behaviors, renegotiations of power (which one is more difficult/recall why)

• Second renegotiation of power and roles

  • Worse than the first because stepparent often tries to push the child in the opposite direction of development

#1 BEST predictor of children’s adjustment post-divorce

• Whether or not parents keep the child out of the conflict

Recall two blue state policies & one red state policy associated with higher life expectancy

• Blue states:

  • Stricter gun control

  • More generous with their poor

  • More restrictive with businesses (higher minimum wage, higher corporate taxes, cleaner environmental laws)

  • Higher tobacco taxes

• Red states:

  • Stricter marijuana laws

Major concern/focus/investment from age 25-34, 35-84, 85+

• 25-34: work

• 35-84: family

• 85+: health

Individual differences: Five factors that protect against mental health difficulties (recall three)

• Close relationships

  • Extended family

  • Marriages

• Enough money

• Health/exercise

• Religiosity

• Purpose

Erikson’s Stage 8 (recall name)

• Integrity vs Despair

Three aspects of integrity that Erikson emphasized that many textbooks neglect (recall two)

• Accepting God’s providence (or fate)

• Accountability

• Comradeship with global humanity

Kubler-Ross stages (recall at least 4)

• 5 stages: DABDA

  • Denial

  • Anger

  • Bargaining (gaining psychological control by making “sense” of it; if-then thinking)

  • Depression

  • Acceptance (moving forward, not “moving on;” may include social withdrawal by the dying)