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Why do we study family

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1) to understand the complexities of the family systems

2) to help unhealthy families and support healthy families

3) To understand the human life course

---family of origin to the family of procreation

4) know the example of his daughter swallowing a screw

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What is family systems

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The individuals, rules, boundaris, routines and norms that are associated with a self-defined group of individuals.

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What is family process

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The ways in which family members interract and work with each other to achieve the goals and functioning of their family unit.

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What is the difference between family systems and family process?

Back 4

Family processes are all about what families do and family systems is about what the individuals do in the family group.

Front 5

How has cohabitation changed in the last several decades?

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Much more cohabitations, it is no longer just the affluent college students doing it anymore, it has become a normal stage of the relationship.

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What are the latest trends in marriage

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1) child bearing is disconnected from marraige

2) it has become individualized, meaning it is based on pursuit of individual goals and happiness

3) Youth still think marriage is important but dont believe it is a necessity or more fulfilling than other lifestyles

4) the traditional family is basically gone

5)emerging adulthood as been invented which has changed premarital trends

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What are the latest trends of divorce

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1) no fault divorce

2) decreased amounts of divorce because of higher amounts of cohabitation

Front 8

What was the marshmallow experiment

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Transferred marshmallows into tupperware. We observed the people and our view of their happiness. It symbolized relative truth, truth that come from personal experience and acquired information. Our view of others happiness based on our own personal views

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What is pure truth

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From God, spiritual knowledge. Ex: revelation

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What is diluted truth

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secular knowledge. Pure truth poorly translated with limited knowledge

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What is relative truth

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individual knowledge from personal experiences

ex: Dr. Willoughby's family always went to amusement parks for family trips and his wife always went and traveled international. So when they got married they had to make a decision from their relative truth.

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What is bias

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knowledge or results are wrong/skewed due to our knowledge we used to create or obtain it. Based on pre-existing preferrences

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What is sample/selection bias

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the people who are apart of the study will limit the results in some way

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What is research bias

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the people doing the study are either intentionally or unintentionally changing the results

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What is construct

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how we conceptualize something that we cant measure, such as love, conflict, happiness, and commitment

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What is a variable

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something that varies and is measurable. Consist's of dependent and independent variable

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What is relationship in the context of family studies

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how 2+ variables connect

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What is quantitative research

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focused on numbers and statistics

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What is qualitative research

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focused on understanding meaning, examples include case studies and interviews

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What does causation vs correlation mean?

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correlation does not equal causation

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What is spurious relationships

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when there is another unknown relationship in the equation

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What are mixed methods of research

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relies on qualitative and quantitative

ex: researchers study 10 people in-depth through interviews and then take their data to make a questionnaire and send it out to tons of people

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What does it mean to validate a survey instrument

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Ensuring that the instrument measures what it is intended to measure can take months

Front 24

Family Systems Theory

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-the process theory

-the most central theory in the study of family science

-says the best way to study the family was to study the family as a whole as opposed to the individuals in the family

-each individual in the family is acting and acted upon by the other individuals in the family

-the series of connections forms a family system of interconnected individuals

-the whole is greater (and different) than the sum of its parts

-other words that have to do with this theory are subsystems, boundaries, goals, structure, equilibrium, open system

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Family Life Course Theory

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-the big picture theory

-two social science of perspective----life course perspective which means looking at the individuals and families and how they change across time and generations. And developmental perspective which looks at the individuals and families and how they go through normative and measurable change over time.