UNC - EDUC-403, EXAM 1 STUDYGUIDE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Why is it important that, as family science professionals, we understand a child's context?
Answer:
-Understanding contexts helps us know the beliefs and traditions of families.
- Offers a more meaningful and complete way to assess the circumstances where children are
growing.
Question:
2. What are the primary domains of family context?
Answer:
- Parental engagement
- Home environment
- Parental/Guardian functioning
Question:
3. What are the primary domains of neighborhood context?
Answer:
- Supportiveness of the neighborhood to parenting
- Supportiveness of neighborhood interactions and neighborliness
- School Safety
- Neighborhood safety
Question:
4. What are the primary domains of socio-demographic context.?
Answer:
- Family Income
- Parental Education
- Size of HH• HH composition
Question:
5. How does culture impact parenting?
Answer:
- Culture constructs families, and parenting behaviors derive from experiencing unique patterns
of caregiving
- Parenting practices come from culture practices
Question:
6. What is cultural awareness?
Answer:
• how our lives shape who we are and how we see the world and our children. This includes our
skills, beliefs, values.
• Understanding family experiences and their culturalcontext (all the parts of a person's identity
, that affect theway they learn, teach, treat other, and understand the world
Question:
7. What theoretical perspective(s) have family theorists generally used to concepstress?
Answer:
The Family Stress Theory:
- Based on ecological/systems perspective
- Studies how indiviuals respond collectivley as a family to stress
Question:
8. Who serves as the primary socializing agent for a child?
Answer:
Family
Question:
9. What theoretical perspective(s) have family theorists generally used to conceptualize
families experiencingstress?
Answer:
Question:
10. What was the foundation for Hill's development of the ABC-X Model?
Answer:
- Created for families stress theory to help better understand the context of resources
- Accounts for additonal stressors, additional resources, support, and coping strategies
- Views family adaptations to the stressors as a process, not outcome
Question:
11. What are the 10 dimensions of family stressor events?
Answer:
1) Internal versus External
2) Pervasive versus Bounded
3) Precipitate onset versus Gradual onset
4) Intense versus Mild
5) Transitory versus Chronic
6) Random versus Expectable
7) Natural generation versus Artificial generation
8) Scarcity versus Surplus
9) Perceived insolvable versus Perceived
10) Substantive content
Question:
12. Internal versus External
Answer:
refers to whether the source of the crisis was internal or external to the social system affected. or
only a limited part.
Question:
1. Why is it important that, as family science professionals, we understand a child's context?
Answer:
-Understanding contexts helps us know the beliefs and traditions of families.
- Offers a more meaningful and complete way to assess the circumstances where children are
growing.
Question:
2. What are the primary domains of family context?
Answer:
- Parental engagement
- Home environment
- Parental/Guardian functioning
Question:
3. What are the primary domains of neighborhood context?
Answer:
- Supportiveness of the neighborhood to parenting
- Supportiveness of neighborhood interactions and neighborliness
- School Safety
- Neighborhood safety
Question:
4. What are the primary domains of socio-demographic context.?
Answer:
- Family Income
- Parental Education
- Size of HH• HH composition
Question:
5. How does culture impact parenting?
Answer:
- Culture constructs families, and parenting behaviors derive from experiencing unique patterns
of caregiving
- Parenting practices come from culture practices
Question:
6. What is cultural awareness?
Answer:
• how our lives shape who we are and how we see the world and our children. This includes our
skills, beliefs, values.
• Understanding family experiences and their culturalcontext (all the parts of a person's identity
, that affect theway they learn, teach, treat other, and understand the world
Question:
7. What theoretical perspective(s) have family theorists generally used to concepstress?
Answer:
The Family Stress Theory:
- Based on ecological/systems perspective
- Studies how indiviuals respond collectivley as a family to stress
Question:
8. Who serves as the primary socializing agent for a child?
Answer:
Family
Question:
9. What theoretical perspective(s) have family theorists generally used to conceptualize
families experiencingstress?
Answer:
Question:
10. What was the foundation for Hill's development of the ABC-X Model?
Answer:
- Created for families stress theory to help better understand the context of resources
- Accounts for additonal stressors, additional resources, support, and coping strategies
- Views family adaptations to the stressors as a process, not outcome
Question:
11. What are the 10 dimensions of family stressor events?
Answer:
1) Internal versus External
2) Pervasive versus Bounded
3) Precipitate onset versus Gradual onset
4) Intense versus Mild
5) Transitory versus Chronic
6) Random versus Expectable
7) Natural generation versus Artificial generation
8) Scarcity versus Surplus
9) Perceived insolvable versus Perceived
10) Substantive content
Question:
12. Internal versus External
Answer:
refers to whether the source of the crisis was internal or external to the social system affected. or
only a limited part.
