What are some of the ways parenting varies across different cultures? Are there any similarities?

What will be an ideal response?


Universal parenting techniques appear to be emphasis on nurturance with infants and toddlers accompanied by a shift towards control and behavior correction until school age when parents begin to focus on training social and cultural values. Cultures vary in the degree to which children must contribute to the familyís subsistence, do chores, and obey their parents. In some cultures, parents demand a very high degree of compliance, whereas in others, the emphasis in parentñchild interactions is sociability.

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believe your classification is correct. What will be an ideal response?

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Emotion comprehension is primarily a task for the __________.

A. right hemisphere B. left hemisphere C. basal ganglia D. cerebellum

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What did a longitudinal study by Stewart, Janicki, and Kamarck (2006 ) find related to increased blood pressure from noise and other situational stimuli?

A) ?Their findings confirmed those in the literature that blood pressure normalizes once the stressor stops. B) ?They found that the duration to normalize blood pressure predicts hypertension over a three-year time. C) ?Their findings refuted those in the literature that blood pressure normalizes once the stressor is stopped. D) ?They found that the duration to normalize blood pressure is longer in people with existing hypertension.

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‘On a hot day people walk less’. This statement expresses what kind of correlation?

a. negative b. zero c. positive d. direct e. misdirected

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