What happens to parent-child relationships during middle childhood?
What will be an ideal response?
In middle childhood, control begins to be transferred from parent to child. This transition period is known as coregulation. As much as 75 percent of African-American children born to married parents will experience being raised in a single-parent family at some point in their lives. Generally, schools and peers take on increased importance in the child's life, yet most children report that parents continue to be an importance source of emotional support. Children who experience divorce are likely to have long-term problems, particularly if the parents do not agree on child-rearing issues. Maternal employment, long feared to have severe negative consequences for children, appears to not have such dramatic negative effects. Some research shows that children whose mothers work outside the home are better adjusted than those whose mothers work in the home.
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a. single cell recording b. transcranial magnetic stimulation c. functional magnetic resonance imaging d. magnetoencephalography
Reactance theory suggests person X will be least likely to go along with person Y when Y states
a. “I think I am going to adopt plan A. What are you going to do?” b. “From my point of view, plan A seems to be the best choice.” c. “I think it is pretty obvious we should both work on plan A.” d. “I like plan A the best.”
Which of the following is something that psychologists examined under the culturally deficient model?
A. racial characteristics B. intelligence test scores C. interpersonal factors D. life satisfaction across cultures
Dissociation is likely to happen
A. after an extremely stressful or a traumatic event. B. when there is potential secondary gain. C. when there is primary gain. D. when a patient is malingering.