According to the family lifecycle approach, the initial stage of the family cycle involves a
a. preschool boy and girl being socialized into the role of a father or mother.
b. dating couple.
c. married couple without children.
d. married couple that have just had their first child (the childbearing family).
Question 2According to Howard Gardner, intelligence consists of at least eight distinct abilities. Which of the following is among Gardner's distinct types of intelligence?
a. Musical
b. Memory capacity
c. Creative
d. Interracial
Question 3The concept of a family life cycle
a. rejects the notion of stages of development.
b. emphasizes the role of the id and ego in decision-making.
c. suggests that the nuclear family is the ideal family system.
d. highlights systematic role changes that occur within family relationships from marriage to death.
Question 4One of the unique features of Gardner's theory of intelligence is that it
a. rejects the notion that a single IQ score can meaningfully assess intelligence.
b. promotes the notion of genetic testing as a form of intelligence testing.
c. focuses on what someone does not know as opposed to what he or she does know.
d. completely ignores the impact of experience on intellectual functioning.
Question 5The conceptualization of a family as a system best matches the _____ approach to psychology.
a. bioecological
b. classical conditioning
c. psychodynamic
d. Gestalt
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