PSY 302 Study Guide - Final Guide: Artificial Insemination, Stepfamily, United States Women'S National Soccer Team
27 Dec 2016
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Survival of offspring ensure that children survive by attending to physical needs, health, and safety. Economic function provide means for children to acquire skills and resources needed to be economically productive in adulthood. Cultural training teach children basic values of culture. Family dynamics the way in which the family operates as a whole. Family members all influence one another through their behaviors. Family functioning is influenced by the social support that parents receive from kin, friends, neighbors, and social institutions. A closer look: parent-child relationships in adolescence (box 12. 1) Not true - stereotype of conflict between parents & children escalating and alienation during adolescence. Children disagree more openly with parents in adolescence but usually over mundane topics (clothes, hairstyle) Relationship eventually becomes less contentious and volatile, more egalitarian or equal. Some families - conflict increases in issues like sex, drugs, friends.
