[FRHD 3040] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (97 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3040
• Professor: Robyn Pitman

Document Summary

Research on parent-child relations is guided non only by theories but also by overarching conceptual frameworks that provide assumptions and ideas about the fundamental nature of the social world. Transaction models of causality emphasize how parents and children change as they interact over time. Sameroff proposed the dialectical idea of a constantly changing, transformative nature of causality: tra(cid:374)sa(cid:272)tio(cid:374) assu(cid:373)es that the i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)es (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) a [are(cid:374)"t a(cid:374)d (cid:272)hild are (cid:374)ot li(cid:374)ear i(cid:374) the sense of a particular stable outcome in the other. Because each partner is constantly changing, causality cannot be reduced to the elements represented by the initial child and parent characteristics. The more usual practice is to consider parent and child behaviors as a series of discrete reciprocal unidirectional influence where each response becomes the stimulus for the other. Circular causality the concept of circular causality, found in the family systems literature, expands on the etiological implications of transactional models.