Divorce can impact a child's life for many years following the event. Many factors are involved
in how children can be influenced by divorce.
Indicate how child development is impacted by
divorce in the following contexts: economic, schoolperformance, and social behaviors. Provide
two examples in each context.
What will be an ideal response?
Economic – income drops, if with mother, perhaps 40 – 50%; worries about financing college; risk of
malnutrition.
School performance – declines; lower grades than intactfamilies; demonstrate behavioral problems at
school such as defiance; 2x as likely to drop out of high school.
Social behaviors - aggression; depression; more likely to engage in delinquent behaviors; fears of
intimacy in relationships; mental health concerns.
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A. humanistic B. cognitive C. evolutionary D. biological
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a. Thorazine b. Prozac c. Lithium d. Librium e. Cylert
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a. a sudden loss of memory and intelligence. b. an inevitable, normal change in the brain with age. c. a progressive loss of neural functioning. d. a one-time period of significant disorientation.
In the original learned helplessness model, people were said to experience learned helplessness when they
A. encountered obstacles they could not overcome. B. encountered aversive events. C. generalized their inability to control one aversive event to a situation they might be able to control. D. gave up trying after they realized they could not do anything about an aversive situation.