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| 3 Components of Triangular Theory |
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| Work Responsibilities, Personal Needs and Others' Needs |
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| Positive sense of well-being people feel when they are regularly meeting their own needs and the needs of others |
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| Benefits to children of parents being married or in a long-term relationship |
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| Better health, increased liklihood that fathers will have good relationships with their children |
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| List the steps to the change process |
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1. Information
2. Crisis
3. Insight
4. Committment to change
5. Experimental Action
6. Shared Growth |
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| Ignorance; Incompetence; Resistence to conscience |
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| Feel safe and secure; develop a positive self picture; develop close real-love relationships; feel like they belong; receive the respect of others and themselves; feel worthwhile by developing a healthy self-esteem; feel competent; experience growth |
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| What is the need associated with living according to what we value and believe? |
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| What is the need according to how we see ourselves? |
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| What is the need associated with how we feel about how we see ourselves? |
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| physical or mental effort to do something |
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| Hunting and Gathering; Agriculture; Industrialization; Technology |
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| Why have marriage and family been established across cultures? |
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| It's a way for people to meet both individual and collective phsyiological and socio-economic needs |
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| psychological aspect of being male or female |
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| "one of the groups into which the world's populations can be divided on the basis of physical characteristics such as skin or hair color" |
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| the way people define themselves as part ofa group through similarities in common ancestry and cultural heritage (race, religion, language, or national origin) |
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| gender, ethnic, and socioeconomic variety in a group, society or institution |
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| the beliefs, customs, practices, and social behavior of a particular nation or people |
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| When a group has less privelages, resources, and power than another group |
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| Circumstances or events that form the environment in which something exists or takes place is called? |
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| Context x Perception/Expectation = |
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| A prediction derived from a theory or from speculation about how 2 or more measured variables will be related to each other |
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| A logical process used by researchers to discover information about.. |
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| skills and abilities of both genders, male and female |
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| Perceptions of individuals from majority and minority groups about themselves, others, and their environments are formed through two primary processes: |
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| Assimilation and accommodation |
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| Maximizes benefits and minimizes costs |
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| prediction that no relationship exists between 2 variables |
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| Group of ideas and assumptions |
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| How humans act-interact via communication symbols, language, gestures |
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| Theory that looks at age and stages of human development across the lifespan |
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| Theory that suggests family members can "choose, design, or modify resources and environment to improve life and well-being" |
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| Primary unit of focus in the ecological theory |
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| Entities that directly affect the individual (family, neighborhood, teacher, peers) |
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| Interrelationships and interactions b/t two or more microsystems and INDIRECTLY influences the individual |
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| Mesosystem (a church on the family) |
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| External systems or entities "where policies are made" |
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| Overarching [societal] cultural values, [norms] and beliefs that affect individual development by establishing either implicit or explicit rules about what is or is not acceptable behavior |
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| Developmental changes that occur across time |
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| Occupational factors that impact job satisfaction, parenting, and child outcomes |
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| Job status; Job autonomy; Job complexity |
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| the acceptance of the differing views of other people, in religious or political matters, and fairness toward the people who hold these different views |
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| the unfair treatment of one person or group, usually because of prejudice about race, ethnicity, age, religion, or gender |
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| Characteristics of Hispanic Families |
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speak with affect, high eye contact, head nods, nonverbal cues, turns, quick/quicker , affective, emotional, interpersonal
Authoriarian; high warmth and connectedness; obediance- high monitoring; physical punishment; collectivistic - loyalty, support, respect |
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| Characteristics of Asian Families |
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speak softly, avoidance of eye contact/ high status people, similar rules, mild delay, low key, indirect
Authoritarian; high control and demandingness; obedience (high monitoring), physical punishment; collectivistic (loyalty, support respect |
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| Characteristics of Black Families |
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Speak with affect; direct eye contact when speaking, less when listening; interrupt and turn taking; quicker responses; affective, emotional, interpersonal
Authoritative, high warmth and connectedness (Egalitarian), Creativity and self-direction - moderate monitoring; psychological reinforcement; individualistic independent, self-determined |
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| Characteristics of Native American Families |
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speak softly and slower, indirect gaze when listening or speaking, interject less, less encouraging communication, delayed auditory (silence), low key expressions, indirect
Permissive, high warmth and connectedness, high exploration and self-regulation(low monitoring), natural consequences, collectivistic (loyalty, support, respect) |
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| Communication; Conflict Resolution; Commitment |
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| Of the 3 C's, which is primarily a socialized phenomenon? |
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| What are the marriage myths? |
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1. If my spouse loves me, he should know what I want and need to be happy
2. No matter how I behave, my spouse should love me simply because she is my spouse
3. I can change my spouse by pointing out his inadequacies, errors, and other flaws
4. I must feel better about my partner before I can change my behavior toward him
5. Maintaining romantic love is the key to marital happiness over the lifespan for most couples
6. Marriage should always be 50/50
7. Marriage can fulfill all my needs |
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| What is the greatest prediction of marital satisfaction? |
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| To avoid overfocusing on your spouse's negatives, you can train your mind to focus on the 80% positives |
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| Define change yourself first |
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1. Change your behavior
2. Change your attitude
3. Change your heart |
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| One of the best ways to strengthen a marriage |
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| Bringing up a concern falls under which skill? |
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| Which of the 9 skills is refusing to take responsibility? |
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| What are the 10 Rules for Constructive Conflict? |
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| 1. Refuse to use destructive conflict tactis; 2. Choose to gain skills to conflict constructively; 3. Focus on feelings first, then move to the specific issue; 4. Focus on one issue at a time; 5. Identify the patterns of behavior that reveal the root cause; 6. Think win/win; 7. Learn to calm yourself; 8. Learn to calm your partner; 9. Be congruent in your communication; 10. Seek closure and seek to resolve the specific issue ASAP |
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| Ways that men and women are the same |
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| 11 Ways that men and women are different (It can be difficult for Women to:) |
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| 1. appreciate; 2. accept; 3. trust; 4. not keep score and resent; 5. communicate their needs; 6. not mind read; 7. not be too openly aware; 8. not blame themselves first; 9. not be critical and controlling; 10. not negative self-talk; 11. not be overwhelmed, overreact, and become exhausted during stress |
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| Healthy co-parenting strategies |
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| 1. Avoid putting down the ex-partner in front of your child; 2. Being mature and controlling anger if the ex-partner says negative things about you to your child; 3. Becoming aware of unintentionally putting your child in the middle of the conflict; 4. Trying to keep the child's best interests in mind; 5. Encouraging your child to have a healthy relationship with your ex-partner; 6. Becoming aware that your children may play ex-partners against you |
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| Suggestions for new healthy rituals in stepfamilies |
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| Ease into doing things together as a whole stepfamily; continue to spend one-on-one time with biological children; spend time doing things with each step-child; understand the development needs of each child; hold family meetings to discuss new rituals; learn to be flexible |
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| 11 Ways Men and Women are Different (It can be difficult for men to:) |
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| 1. Care/Support emotionally; 2. understand; 3. respect; 4. maintain giving; 5. to validate/not solve; 6. communicate effectively; 7. be aware/tunnel vision; 8. not blame others first; 9. not be cold and hurtful; 10. not become defensive; 11. not withdraw, grumble, and shut down during stress |
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