When parents lose a child to death, or when they have a baby born with birth defects, they experience a cycle of grief and loss. During this part of the cycle, the parent takes the intense emotions and begins to resolve them in positive ways
He/she integrates the hoped-for child with the real child—seeing the child's assets along with the disability.
A) searching
B) recovery
C) maintenance
D) shock and panic
B
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The Detroit syndrome is a term the media has used to refer to the
a. obsolescence of the knowledge and skills of the older worker. b. older American’s preferences for big cars. c. reluctance of older Americans to give up driving their own car. d. willingness of American industry to retrain, rather than replace, older workers.
Carl, a white American, is doing a school presentation for his history class after which he is asked to share his own ethnic heritage. He is stumped. He has heard offhand that he has ancestors from Germany and Ireland, and that he might even have a little Native American blood, but has never seen proof of such. Lieberson and Waters (1988) would call Carl a(n):
a. homogenous white. b. unhyphenated white. c. undifferentiated white. d. pluralistic white.
From the functionalist perspective, the media can be dysfunctional in what way?
a. they enforce social norms b. they confer status c. they desensitize us to events d. they are agents of socialization
With regard to the corporal punishment debate, the text concludes that corporal punishment:
A. is still the most effective form of discipline for children. B. should only be used until the child reaches puberty. C. invariably leads children to become abusive when they grow up. D. should always be a last resort.