FRHD 3040 Midterm: Midterm Review

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

Document Summary

Discuss what a theory is and the assumptions contained within theories. Fundamental beliefs, abstract ideas, assumptions about nature of a phenomenon (that guides research. All contain assumptions about: nature of children, nature of the relationship, nature of processes, causality direction of influence, desirable outcome, concepts, models, constructs, hypotheses, generalizations. Explicit theories: formal propositions determine how scientists define the research and problem to be solved. Informal common sense, taken for grant ideas determines how people think about the phenomenon in everyday life things that happen when we go about eploreing. Popular sayings as long as you live in my house children should be seen not heard. Child: parent shapes child, one acts on the other. Your parents create you and you have no role: adult had complete jurisdiction, power, and control over the relationship. Unidirectional theories and interventions have been the norm. It is how research questions are asked and how parent education and intervention is seen.