DBPC 600 Quiz 1

DBPC 600 Quiz: Marriage Life/Family Development: Preschool & Elementary

1. What experience does Dobson say sometimes happens in a man’s mid 40s that contributes to midlife crisis? [Turn Your Heart toward Home—Power in Parenting: A Father’s Look Back]
2. What does Dr. Dobson identify as critical to making marriage work? [Love for a Lifetime I–III]
3. James Dobson suggests that parental influence and direction can allow a child to ________________. [Building Confidence in Your Child]
4. In reviewing over 600 letters from couples in long-term marriages, Dr. Dobson and his team found what to be powerful stabilizing (a) relational factor(s)? [Love for a Lifetime I–III]
5. The difference between how adults respond to attractive versus unattractive babies ________________________________. [Building Confidence in Your Child]
6. What has Dr. Dobson’s reflection over seven years led him to conclude to be the most important focus? [Turn Your Heart toward Home—Power in Parenting: A Father’s Look Back]
7. What principle did the monopoly illustration depict? [Turn Your Heart toward Home—Power in Parenting: A Father’s Look Back]
8. Which of the following types of commitment has developed in response to society’s hesitancy to make commitments? [The Family]
9. What experience does Dobson say sometimes happens in a man’s mid 40s that contributes to midlife crisis? [Turn Your Heart toward Home—Power in Parenting: A Father’s Look Back]
10. According to Sternberg, commitment, intimacy, and passion, in varying amounts, are the 3 components that make up the 4 different types of love relationships. Within Complete love, which one component creates the environment in which the other two components can safely mature? [The Family]
11. The man from the story told at the beginning of chapter one of Building Confidence in Your Child was _________________. [Building Confidence in Your Children]
12. List the three institutions given by God (in the order they were created) [Love for a Lifetime I– III]
13. What is the number one “marriage killer” according to Dr. Dobson? [Love for a Lifetime I–III]
14. What did James Dobson’s story about his daughter’s physical injury in chapter two of Building Confidence in Your Child reveal? [Building Confidence in Your Child]
15. According to Dr. Dobson, what is one key to starting a healthy marriage? [Keys to a Healthy Marriage]
16. Balswick and Balswick highlight 4 characteristics of a Christian marriage: What are they? [The Family]
17. There is a possible correlation between the high suicide rate in teenagers and a lack of [Building Confidence in Your Children]
18. The notion that only attractive people are loved and appreciated by society is ____________ in children’s books, movies, and musicals. [Building Confidence in Your Child]
19. Which of the following is NOT true of the family-systems perspective? [The Family]
20. Which of the following is NOT one of the categories that research has determined to be predictive of marital quality? [The Family]
21. In chapter 2 of Building Confidence in Your Child, Dobson says that research reveals that attractive children receive better grades. However, we know that this correlation does not point to causation. Based on the reading and your own critical thinking, what are some of the other variables that may play into an unattractive student performing poorly in school? What could be implemented in educational settings or within the home to diminish the effects of this unfortunate correlation?
22. Put yourself in a mindset in which you are wildly unattractive. Sit there for a minute and think about what your life could look like. Think about the challenges and advantages you may have. Think about what your emotional well-being might be. Now put yourself in a mindset in which you are ridiculously attractive. What would be different? Discuss your reaction to these two mindsets. How do your reactions to being in those mindsets reinforce or diminish society’s concept of beauty?