FAML 400 Exam 1 2025 Questions
and Answers
Philosophy - ✔✔World view or paradigm
Positivism Paradigm - ✔✔It is assumed that there is an objective reality and that natural
phenomena are regular and orderly. It's very deterministic: cause and effect based. It
doesn't care about values, fact is fact. (This includes the Family Development theory
and the Social Exchange Theory).
Interpretivism Paradigm - ✔✔The "it depends" world view. It looks at facts subjectively,
within their proper context. It's more about how the person interprets the facts than the
facts themselves. (This includes the Symbolic Interactionism Theory.)
Critical/Conflict Paradigm - ✔✔Looks at the world through two classes, those who
"have" and those who "have not". It's about competition for scarce resources. (This
includes the conflict theory and the feminist theory.)
Deductive Reasoning - ✔✔reasoning in which a conclusion is reached by stating a
general principle and then applying that principle to a specific case (The sun rises every
morning; therefore, the sun will rise on Tuesday morning.) Goes from general to
specific. It starts with a hypothesis.
inductive reasoning - ✔✔A type of logic where you take lots of specific observations
and use those to male larger generalizations. Goes from specific to general.
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, Elder Oaks article - ✔✔Reason and revelation should work hand in hand. Revelation
generally has the last word, but it should be accompanied by study.
Purposes of Theories - ✔✔- Help explain observations
- Helps us solve problems through predictions
- Generates knowledge
The Parts of a Theory: - ✔✔- Assumptions
- Concepts: agreed upon terms
- Proposition: predicted relationships if theory is true
List some hedonistic Theories - ✔✔Economic theory, behaviorism, and exchange theory
Assumptions of Hedonistic Theories - ✔✔1. People are influenced by what happens in
their environment
2. humans are rational
3. humans are profit seeking
Hedonistic Theories: concept terms - ✔✔- humans seek pleasure to avoid pain
- reward and loss
- conditioning
- extinction
- discrimination
- values
- marginal
- reciprocity
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and Answers
Philosophy - ✔✔World view or paradigm
Positivism Paradigm - ✔✔It is assumed that there is an objective reality and that natural
phenomena are regular and orderly. It's very deterministic: cause and effect based. It
doesn't care about values, fact is fact. (This includes the Family Development theory
and the Social Exchange Theory).
Interpretivism Paradigm - ✔✔The "it depends" world view. It looks at facts subjectively,
within their proper context. It's more about how the person interprets the facts than the
facts themselves. (This includes the Symbolic Interactionism Theory.)
Critical/Conflict Paradigm - ✔✔Looks at the world through two classes, those who
"have" and those who "have not". It's about competition for scarce resources. (This
includes the conflict theory and the feminist theory.)
Deductive Reasoning - ✔✔reasoning in which a conclusion is reached by stating a
general principle and then applying that principle to a specific case (The sun rises every
morning; therefore, the sun will rise on Tuesday morning.) Goes from general to
specific. It starts with a hypothesis.
inductive reasoning - ✔✔A type of logic where you take lots of specific observations
and use those to male larger generalizations. Goes from specific to general.
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, Elder Oaks article - ✔✔Reason and revelation should work hand in hand. Revelation
generally has the last word, but it should be accompanied by study.
Purposes of Theories - ✔✔- Help explain observations
- Helps us solve problems through predictions
- Generates knowledge
The Parts of a Theory: - ✔✔- Assumptions
- Concepts: agreed upon terms
- Proposition: predicted relationships if theory is true
List some hedonistic Theories - ✔✔Economic theory, behaviorism, and exchange theory
Assumptions of Hedonistic Theories - ✔✔1. People are influenced by what happens in
their environment
2. humans are rational
3. humans are profit seeking
Hedonistic Theories: concept terms - ✔✔- humans seek pleasure to avoid pain
- reward and loss
- conditioning
- extinction
- discrimination
- values
- marginal
- reciprocity
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