Family Studies test #1

Families study Notes:

Test #1: https://knowt.com/flashcards/18e88ef3-8580-49b6-b58b-7567fd1ae81a

Thursday march 21, 2024 :0 

• definitions: 

  • Psychology

    • The systematic study of people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. These are largely determined by personality.

    • Covers topics such as: treatment of violent offenders, similarities and differences in twins separated at birth, role of emotional factors in medical conditions like anorexia and depression, and psychological health among Aboriginal peoples.

    • Can be used to study: individual behavior (micro studies), and group behavior (macro studies).

  • Sociology

    • The systematic study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society. It is the science that explains the behaviour of individuals in social groups, families, and societies.

    • Covers topics such as: communication patterns between males and females, values, hopes, fears, and lifestyles of youth, impact of early life experiences on child development, the district ways boys and girls are socialized.

    • Sociology is concerned with patterns and trends in behavior observed in large numbers of people, rather than individual behavior.

  • Anthropology

    • The systematic study of the cultures and customs of human beings.

  • Cultural anthropology

    • Studies the arts, beliefs, habits, and institutions of living peoples and examines and compares them.

    • Might study: the Netsilik people of the Arctic, and the mountain people of Thailand

  • Social anthropology

    • Studies the social organization of living peoples and examines them to find the root of social problems.

    • Might study: domestic violence, poverty

    • Has a lot in common with sociology.

  • Bias

    • The tendency to stand with or against someone or something.

    • Leaning in a certain direction in an argument.

    • It is sneaky and dangerous since it influences what is asked in a research method and how resources are interpreted

    • Often stems from personal life experiences.

  • Prejudice

    • Making a judgement about something or someone based on ignorance and/or lack of information.

    • Emotional and firmly held

    • Often intolerant, hateful etc. (race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability etc.)

  • Ethnocentrism

    • The belief that one’s own ethnic or cultural background or experience is superior to others.

    • A judgement of superiority over other ethnic or cultural groups.

• How can Psychology, sociology, as well as cultural and social anthropology be sciences? 

  • They are sciences because they all attempt to investigate human thought and behavior in a scientific way (using the scientific method). They follow an inquiry process.

• Steps to the Inquiry Model:

  • Identify a problem or question

  • Develop a hypothesis

  • Gather data

  • Analyze the data

  • Draw conclusions

• social science:

  • research methods 

    • Experiments:

    • Surveys:

    • Interviews:

    • Observations:

• Experiments

  • the Milgram experiment

  • the Stanford Prison Experiment 

• how to write interview questions for research purposes:

  • Determine the purpose of the interview.

  • Develop a clear hypothesis

  • Write open-ended questions (yes and no questions lead to dead ends)

  • Write questions without hidden assumptions

  • Plan secondary/follow-up questions

  • Address only one concept/idea per question

  • Avoid hypothetical questions

  • Don’t ask irrelevant questions (must relate to purpose)

• family systems theory - all terminology

  • Wholeness

  • Hierarchy

  • Homeostasis

  • Causality

  • Boundaries

  • Rules

• family development theory - all terminology

  • Stages:

    • Young single

    • Newly married couple

    • Family with young children

    • Family with teens

    • Launching

    • Later life

  • Development tasks

    • Success vs. failure in tasks

    • Individual vs Family tasks

    • biological/psychological requirements

    • cultural/social expectation

    • Personal aspirations and values

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• symbolic interactionism theory

• Family life spiral

• System oscillation

• “All the World’s a Stage”

• “I am what I think you think I am”

• Critical transitions

• Multi-generational perspective

• Roles

  
  

• The test will be a mix of styles of questions:

• True and false -- if false, correct the statement to make it true

• multiple choice

• fill in the blanks with or without a word bank 

• Identify

• compare and contrast

• complete the chart

• short answer

• long/essay answer

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