parenting final multiple choice

Resilience

Best conceptualized as a process rather than a trait.

Cycle of Poverty

Education can act as a tool to end this cycle in families.

Parents

Individuals who nourish, protect, and guide new life to maturity.

Authoritative Parenting

A style that focuses on the inherent strengths of the child.

Authoritarian Parenting

A style characterized by high structure and low nurture.

Permissive Parenting

A style that does not enforce obedience to externally defined standards.

Most favored parenting style based on research

Authoritative.

Discipline

The purpose is to train children for correction and maturity.

Guidance

The purpose is to lead or influence, not to promote guilt or punish.

Modeling behavior

The most effective way to teach new behaviors.

Egocentrism

Young children focus on their own viewpoint and cannot see another person's view.

Vital resources for parents

Includes family, friends, and church.

Secure Attachment

Formed when parents are sensitive, responsive, and loving figures.

Lev Vygotsky

Theorized that children learn new cognitive skills through guided assistance, coining the 'zone of proximal development'.

Social Media Risks

Include exposure to inappropriate content, marketing influences, and cyberbullying, but not lack of access to friends.

Parents' tasks during middle childhood

To be faithful, available, and the child's advocate.

Natural consequences

Direct results of a physical act, such as getting burned by a hot stove.

Self-concept of school-aged children

Often based on social comparisons.

Responsiveness

A powerful parenting process that encourages resilience by creating a stress-free environment.

Quantity time

Necessary to achieve quality time with children.

Family Stability

More family transitions lead to a higher likelihood of behavior problems in children.

Adverse Childhood Experiences

Can increase the risk for later negative outcomes.

Stable and nurturing relationships

Can mediate the cycle of negative experiences outlined in the Adverse Childhood Experiences study.

Constructive coping strategy

Seeking assistance from peers and professionals after a stressor.

Neglect

The most frequently reported type of maltreatment of children.

Protective factors

Contribute to positive outcomes despite adversity.

Buffers against adversity

Protective factors reduce the risk of negative outcomes.

Family connectedness during transitions

Typically fluctuates as families search for a 'new normal'.