EXDM 300 Exam 4 Questions And Answers With Latest Quiz

"______% of all families with children attend a religious service...on a typical weekend." - 41% "As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, __________." - contact with nature "Courting couples generally are _______________ than married couples." - far more intentional than married couples "Don't look for happiness, Richie - it'll only make you miserable." This statement reflects the ideals of which family type? Institutional family What is the Psychological Family based on, as opposed to the Institutional Family? Personal achievement and happiness, as opposed to family obligations What kind of new family replaced the old intentional and psychological family, and what new value does it add? Why does the text say we live in the best of time for families? We understand better than ever what makes families work and have the power to shape our family how we want (intentional family) "If you are intentional about creating family rituals of religious community, you will ___________." - What are three things that provide children with the necessary foundation from which to gain something of value from their involvement in family religious activities? 1. Parents truly value rfamily rituals of religious community 2. Religious organization makes a good effort to reach out to children and youth 3. Parents have a clear, nondebatable policy regarding family participation "In societies around the world, obtaining the very latest, fastest, most extreme version of connectedness isn't just a core individual goal, it's a _____ _____." - national ambition"It is important to be _________ about becoming a more _________ Family." Intentional, intentional - What are the two reasons family rituals are difficult to institute or modify? "Parents, educators, other adults, institutions--the culture itself--may say one thing to children about nature's gifts, but _________________________." - their actions say different messages "The natural drift of daily life in contemporary America is toward slowly diminishing _________, _________, and ____________. - connection, meaning, and community 1. Highly ritualized family meals tend to be more satisfying 2. Flexibility is needed to keep these rituals from becoming oppressive 3. Even intentional families sometimes slip up - Intentional Families find a way to use meals to do what? What are the payoffs? 1. Make something happen one time without major comment - 2. Ask how others liked the new activity 3. Negotiate the specifics of the new ritual 5 tools that limit neurological plasticity - books, maps, clocks, internet, alphabet (makes it so we don't have to remember as much) 7 philosophers and application - Plato - get space Seneca - inner space/focus on one idea 3. Gutenburg - read more books w/ less distractions 4. Shakespeare - old tools ease overload 5. Ben Franklin - positive rituals, rewards and goals 6. Thoreau - offline spaces 7. McLuhan - lower the inner thermostat