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Adolescence, 6/e
Laurence Steinberg, Temple University

The Contexts of Adolescence
Families

Chapter Overview

Major Section

Study Guide Features

  
IntroductionImportant terms: generation gap, diversity
 

Multiple choice questions: 1, 2, 33

Fill in the blank questions: 1-2

Matching questions: 4

  
I. Family Relationships at AdolescenceLearning Objectives: 1
  
A. The adolescent's parents at midlifeLearning Objectives: 2
 

Important terms: family life cycle, mid-life crisis

Multiple choice questions: 7, 18

Fill in the blank questions: 3

Matching questions: 12

  
B. Changes in family needs and functionsMultiple choice questions: 27
 Matching questions: 2
  
C. Transformations in family relationsLearning Objectives: 3
 

Important terms: storm and stress

Multiple choice questions: 26, 34

Fill in the blank questions: 4-6

  
II. Family Relationships and AdolescentImportant terms: temperament, corporal
 

Developmentpunishment

Multiple choice questions: 35

Fill in the blank questions: 7

Matching questions: 18

  
A. Parenting styles and their effects

Learning Objectives: 4

 

Important terms: Diana Baumrind,

parental responsiveness, parental

demandingness, authoritative parents,

indulgent parents, indifferent parents,

authoritarian parents

Multiple choice questions: 3-6, 19, 22,

28-31

Fill in the blank questions: 8 ? 13

Matching questions: 1, 9, 13, 14, 17

  
B. Ethnic differences in parenting

Learning Objectives: 4

practices

 
  
C. Autonomy and attachment in the Learning Objectives: 4
adolescent's family 
  
D. The sexes: Are there sex differences

Learning Objectives: 5

in adolescents' family relationships?Multiple choice questions: 8, 32
  
E. Adolescents' relationships with siblingsLearning Objectives: 6
 Multiple choice questions: 9
  
F. Behavioral genetics and adolescentLearning Objectives: 7
developmentImportant terms: behavioral genetics,
 

shared environmental influences,

non-shared environmental influences

Fill in the blank questions: 14-16

Matching questions: 3, 7

  
G. Adolescents and adoption 
  
III. The Adolescent's Family in a Learning Objectives: 8
Changing SocietyImportant terms: demographers
 

Multiple choice questions: 20

Matching questions: 10

  
IV. Adolescent Development and theLearning Objectives: 8
Changing Family 
  
A. Adolescents, divorce, andLearning Objectives: 9
single-parent familiesMultiple choice questions: 10, 11
 Fill in the blank questions: 17
  
B. The scientific study of adolescence: Important terms: effect size, correlation,
 

Parental divorce and the well-being of meta-analysis

adolescentsMultiple choice questions: 15, 25

Fill in the blank questions: 18-19

Matching questions: 6, 11, 19

  
C. The specific impact of marital conflictMultiple choice questions: 14
  
D. The longer-term effects of divorceImportant terms: sleeper effects
 

Matching questions: 5

  
E. Custody, contact, and conflict following Important terms: noncustodial parent
 

divorceMultiple choice questions: 24

Matching questions: 15

  
F. RemarriageMultiple choice questions: 16
  
G. Parental employment and adolescent Learning Objectives: 10
adjustmentMultiple choice questions: 17, 21
  
H. Economic stress and povertyImportant terms: promotive strategies,
 

Restrictive strategies

Multiple choice questions: 12, 13, 23

Fill in the blank questions: 20

Matching questions: 8, 16, 20