HESC 101 Final Exam Study Guide With
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Relationships outside of families - ANSWER Our first relationships outside of the family,
we learn about tolerance, sharing, and trust.
Friendships include these characteristics:
Companionship (relaxed & happy)
Respect (towards feelings & opinions)
Acceptance (of good & bad)
Help (sharing time & energy)
Trust (safe in confiding)
Loyalty (can count on each other)
Mutuality (sharing ups & downs)
Reciprocity (a give & take)
Physical intensity - ANSWER Passion: romance, attraction, sexuality; sex brings this and
excitement, basically all sexual
Jealousy - ANSWER Jealousy (measures insecurity or possessiveness).
Is not an element of love, but insistent demands & attempts to control
Feedback - ANSWER Feedback is a constructive response to self-disclosure
Relationship success - ANSWER Elements of a successful relationship include:
Realistic expectations
Mutual trust
Open communication
,Effective ways to resolve conflict
Ask for and give support
Agreement on religious/ethical values
Equal roles
Balance of individual and joint interests
First attraction - ANSWER First attraction - observable characteristics.
This includes: looks, dress, social status, reciprocated interest
Living together - ANSWER Also known as cohabitation.
By 30 years of age, half of all men and women have cohabited.
Factors of acceptance - acceptance of premarital sex, waiting longer before getting
married, availability of contraceptives, more single and divorced individuals.
Rarely continues indefinitely
Advantages
Liabilities
Predictors of happy marriage - ANSWER Predictors of a happy marriage include:
Realistic expectations
Feels good about the personality of their mate
Communication
Conflict resolution
Agree on religious and ethical values
Egalitarian role (equal)
Good balance of individual and joint interests
Chance of divorce/Process - ANSWER High rates.... Why?
,50-55% chance of divorcing
No longer believe in permanence of marriage and have high expectations
Process of divorce
Emotional separation - First step
Physical separation
Greatest stress-producing event next to the death of a spouse or family member
Recovery from divorce can take 1 - 3 years
Remarriage
About 75% of all divorced people, often within 5 years
Parenting styles - ANSWER Parenting styles:
Authoritarian (high demand, low responsiveness)
Authoritative (high demand & responsiveness - best)
Permissive (low demand, high responsiveness)
Uninvolved (low demand & responsiveness - worst)
Martial satisfaction and family life cycle - ANSWER Best predictor for raising a healthy
child:
Provide a balance of firm limits and clear structure
Marital satisfaction tends to decline when children are young and in school, but
increases once the last child has left home
Each Stage of the Family Life Cycle:
Early stage:
, Ensure the babies well-being
Worry about choices and making serious mistakes
No set hard-and-fast rules
Most important is to promote satisfaction for all family members - including the parents
Later stages:
Balance between giving freedom and setting limits that will keep them safe and secure
Step-families - ANSWER 3 out of 4 women and 4 out of 5 men will remarry.
Almost half of all marriages are remarriages for husband, wife, or both.
Should not be expected to duplicate the emotions and relationships of a primary family.
Healthy stepfamilies are less cohesive and more adaptable than healthy primary
families, allow for more individual differences.
More of a history they have together, the more of a family unit is built.
Greatest stress producing event - ANSWER Greatest stress-producing event next to the
death of a spouse or family member is DIVORCE!
Gonads and sex hormones - ANSWER Gonads - primary reproductive organs, developed
at the eighth week of fetal life, ovaries and testes, produce:
Germ cells:
Ova (eggs) in females
Sperm in males
Sex hormones
Males - testes hormone - testosterone
Females - ovaries hormone - estrogen and progesterone
Scrotum temperature - ANSWER Function (temperature 93.6 F)
Complete Solutions
Relationships outside of families - ANSWER Our first relationships outside of the family,
we learn about tolerance, sharing, and trust.
Friendships include these characteristics:
Companionship (relaxed & happy)
Respect (towards feelings & opinions)
Acceptance (of good & bad)
Help (sharing time & energy)
Trust (safe in confiding)
Loyalty (can count on each other)
Mutuality (sharing ups & downs)
Reciprocity (a give & take)
Physical intensity - ANSWER Passion: romance, attraction, sexuality; sex brings this and
excitement, basically all sexual
Jealousy - ANSWER Jealousy (measures insecurity or possessiveness).
Is not an element of love, but insistent demands & attempts to control
Feedback - ANSWER Feedback is a constructive response to self-disclosure
Relationship success - ANSWER Elements of a successful relationship include:
Realistic expectations
Mutual trust
Open communication
,Effective ways to resolve conflict
Ask for and give support
Agreement on religious/ethical values
Equal roles
Balance of individual and joint interests
First attraction - ANSWER First attraction - observable characteristics.
This includes: looks, dress, social status, reciprocated interest
Living together - ANSWER Also known as cohabitation.
By 30 years of age, half of all men and women have cohabited.
Factors of acceptance - acceptance of premarital sex, waiting longer before getting
married, availability of contraceptives, more single and divorced individuals.
Rarely continues indefinitely
Advantages
Liabilities
Predictors of happy marriage - ANSWER Predictors of a happy marriage include:
Realistic expectations
Feels good about the personality of their mate
Communication
Conflict resolution
Agree on religious and ethical values
Egalitarian role (equal)
Good balance of individual and joint interests
Chance of divorce/Process - ANSWER High rates.... Why?
,50-55% chance of divorcing
No longer believe in permanence of marriage and have high expectations
Process of divorce
Emotional separation - First step
Physical separation
Greatest stress-producing event next to the death of a spouse or family member
Recovery from divorce can take 1 - 3 years
Remarriage
About 75% of all divorced people, often within 5 years
Parenting styles - ANSWER Parenting styles:
Authoritarian (high demand, low responsiveness)
Authoritative (high demand & responsiveness - best)
Permissive (low demand, high responsiveness)
Uninvolved (low demand & responsiveness - worst)
Martial satisfaction and family life cycle - ANSWER Best predictor for raising a healthy
child:
Provide a balance of firm limits and clear structure
Marital satisfaction tends to decline when children are young and in school, but
increases once the last child has left home
Each Stage of the Family Life Cycle:
Early stage:
, Ensure the babies well-being
Worry about choices and making serious mistakes
No set hard-and-fast rules
Most important is to promote satisfaction for all family members - including the parents
Later stages:
Balance between giving freedom and setting limits that will keep them safe and secure
Step-families - ANSWER 3 out of 4 women and 4 out of 5 men will remarry.
Almost half of all marriages are remarriages for husband, wife, or both.
Should not be expected to duplicate the emotions and relationships of a primary family.
Healthy stepfamilies are less cohesive and more adaptable than healthy primary
families, allow for more individual differences.
More of a history they have together, the more of a family unit is built.
Greatest stress producing event - ANSWER Greatest stress-producing event next to the
death of a spouse or family member is DIVORCE!
Gonads and sex hormones - ANSWER Gonads - primary reproductive organs, developed
at the eighth week of fetal life, ovaries and testes, produce:
Germ cells:
Ova (eggs) in females
Sperm in males
Sex hormones
Males - testes hormone - testosterone
Females - ovaries hormone - estrogen and progesterone
Scrotum temperature - ANSWER Function (temperature 93.6 F)
