Lenore Walker, an advocate of an individualistic or therapeutic model explaining battering, maintains that girls are socialized to behave in a passive, helpless matter while boys learn to take advantage of such girls.
Walker labels this phenomenon as
a. learned helplessness.
b. victim culpability.
c. cognitive retreatism.
d. relational passivity.
Ques. 2Research cited in Aulette indicates that the majority of television advertisements for toys for boys include
a. aggression or violence with positive consequences.
b. aggression or violence with negative consequences.
c. a negative attitude towards being smart or liking school.
d. a positive attitude towards being smart or liking school.
Ques. 3Over the past century the average length of marriage at the death of a spouse
a. has increased by more than ten years.
b. has decreased by more than ten years.
c. has stayed basically the same with only a small difference of 3 years.
Ques. 4The term ________________ refers to a condition brought on by a decline in health status that stresses the relationships between aging spouses and between adult children and their aging parents.
a. behavioral slowing
b. frailty
c. sensory inhibition
d. impotence
Ques. 5Aulette divides theories explaining family violence into three major frameworks:
a. individualistic, family structural, feminist
b. micro-level, macro-level, reciprocal
c. internal, external, systemic
d. battered women's movement, men's rights movement, feminist movement
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