FAD 2233 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH
RATIONALES|ALREADY GRADED A+
||BRAND NEW!!!
% of Americans define an unmarried couple without children as a "family." If this
unmarried couple has a child, % of Americans would consider them to be a family. -
Answers - ✔✔40, 80
Colonial America families - Answers - ✔✔families were businesses, schools, churches,
and correctional, health, and welfare institutions.
Differing family dynamics for African Americans due to slavery
Industrialized and Urbanized America - Answers - ✔✔separate work and home life;
waves of immigration.
Poor, working class, middle, and upper class
Post-Modern America - Answers - ✔✔many different institutions that serve the family;
no typical family
Work/life balance, flexible work to accommodate family
Types of families - Answers - ✔✔family of orientation, procreation, fictive kin
Exchange theory - Answers - ✔✔theory that holds that people are motivated by self-
interests in their interactions with other people utilitarianism
Comparison level (CL): - Answers - ✔✔of what others in your position have and how
well you are doing relative to them.
Comparison level (CL+): - Answers - ✔✔how well you are doing relative to others
outside of your position but in positions that supply an alternative or choice.
ex: divorce, couples with young kids
Principle of Least Interest: - Answers - ✔✔the individual with the least interest in the
relationship/exchange has the most power.
Principles of Resources and Power: - Answers - ✔✔the individuals with the most
resources in the relationship/exchange has the most power.
, Family Life Course Developmental Framework: - Answers - ✔✔Individual life span
theory, Family development theory, Life course theory
Individual life span theory - Answers - ✔✔individual development and the factors that
affect it.
Family development theory - Answers - ✔✔systemic and patterned changes families
experience over time.
Emphasizes interaction of time and change
Life course theory: - Answers - ✔✔how earlier life events influence later life outcomes in
individuals
Family change and development - Answers - ✔✔individuals, families, and relationships
grow and change in both predictable/normative and unique ways.
Position: - Answers - ✔✔kinship structure based on gender, marriage, blood, or
generational relations (father, sister, wife, uncle).
Norms: - Answers - ✔✔rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of
its members
roles - Answers - ✔✔Actions and activities that a person in a particular position is
supposed to perform based on expectations of the individual and surrounding persons
famiy stages - Answers - ✔✔Married couples (without children)
Child Bearing Families (oldest child birth to 30 months)
Families with Preschool Children (oldest child 30 months to 6 years)
Families with School age Children (oldest child 6 to 13 years)
Families with Teenagers (oldest child 13 to 20 years)
Families with Launching Centers (first child gone to last child leaving home)
Middle-aged parents (empty nest to retirement)
Aging Family Members (retirement to death)
Transitions from one stage to another are often predicted by age of the oldest child.
systems theory - Answers - ✔✔: a set of elements in interaction with each other so that
what affects one element affects all other elements.
Elements/objects
Relationships between these elements/objects
Elements/objects' attributes
This "model" of a system and elements can be applied to families.
system theory assumptions - Answers - ✔✔All parts of the system are interconnected.
Understanding is only possible by viewing the whole.
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH
RATIONALES|ALREADY GRADED A+
||BRAND NEW!!!
% of Americans define an unmarried couple without children as a "family." If this
unmarried couple has a child, % of Americans would consider them to be a family. -
Answers - ✔✔40, 80
Colonial America families - Answers - ✔✔families were businesses, schools, churches,
and correctional, health, and welfare institutions.
Differing family dynamics for African Americans due to slavery
Industrialized and Urbanized America - Answers - ✔✔separate work and home life;
waves of immigration.
Poor, working class, middle, and upper class
Post-Modern America - Answers - ✔✔many different institutions that serve the family;
no typical family
Work/life balance, flexible work to accommodate family
Types of families - Answers - ✔✔family of orientation, procreation, fictive kin
Exchange theory - Answers - ✔✔theory that holds that people are motivated by self-
interests in their interactions with other people utilitarianism
Comparison level (CL): - Answers - ✔✔of what others in your position have and how
well you are doing relative to them.
Comparison level (CL+): - Answers - ✔✔how well you are doing relative to others
outside of your position but in positions that supply an alternative or choice.
ex: divorce, couples with young kids
Principle of Least Interest: - Answers - ✔✔the individual with the least interest in the
relationship/exchange has the most power.
Principles of Resources and Power: - Answers - ✔✔the individuals with the most
resources in the relationship/exchange has the most power.
, Family Life Course Developmental Framework: - Answers - ✔✔Individual life span
theory, Family development theory, Life course theory
Individual life span theory - Answers - ✔✔individual development and the factors that
affect it.
Family development theory - Answers - ✔✔systemic and patterned changes families
experience over time.
Emphasizes interaction of time and change
Life course theory: - Answers - ✔✔how earlier life events influence later life outcomes in
individuals
Family change and development - Answers - ✔✔individuals, families, and relationships
grow and change in both predictable/normative and unique ways.
Position: - Answers - ✔✔kinship structure based on gender, marriage, blood, or
generational relations (father, sister, wife, uncle).
Norms: - Answers - ✔✔rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of
its members
roles - Answers - ✔✔Actions and activities that a person in a particular position is
supposed to perform based on expectations of the individual and surrounding persons
famiy stages - Answers - ✔✔Married couples (without children)
Child Bearing Families (oldest child birth to 30 months)
Families with Preschool Children (oldest child 30 months to 6 years)
Families with School age Children (oldest child 6 to 13 years)
Families with Teenagers (oldest child 13 to 20 years)
Families with Launching Centers (first child gone to last child leaving home)
Middle-aged parents (empty nest to retirement)
Aging Family Members (retirement to death)
Transitions from one stage to another are often predicted by age of the oldest child.
systems theory - Answers - ✔✔: a set of elements in interaction with each other so that
what affects one element affects all other elements.
Elements/objects
Relationships between these elements/objects
Elements/objects' attributes
This "model" of a system and elements can be applied to families.
system theory assumptions - Answers - ✔✔All parts of the system are interconnected.
Understanding is only possible by viewing the whole.
