Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Upper Class, Blue-Collar Worker, Stress Management

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: Alexander Meyer

Document Summary

Socialization: the process by which children acquire the beliefs, values, and behaviours considered desirable or appropriate by their culture or subculture. By one definition a family is 2 or more persons related by birth, marriage, adoption or choice. Family social system: the complex network of relationships, interactions and patterns of influence that characterizes a family with 3 or more members. Traditional nuclear families: a family unit consisting of a wife/mother, a husband/father and their dependent child or children. Infants of happily married mothers are more likely to be securely attached. Overall, children fare best when couples coparent (mutually support each other"s parenting efforts and function as a cooperative team) Coparenting: circumstance in which parents mutually support each other and function as a cooperative parenting team. Every person and every relationship within the family affects every other person and relationship through pathways of influence.