These are the study items for Exam 3 from the textbook Please also be sure to study lecture materials and breakout session materials Exam 3 Textbook Study Guide Chapter 10 Child abuse Child neglect o refers to overt acts of aggression excessive verbal derogation emotional child abuse or physical child abuse o acts of omission failing to provide adequate physical or emotional care physical malnutrition lack of immunizations proper clothing attend school irregularly and need of medical attention vision and dental Coercive power causes emotional abuse o based on the dominant person s ability and willingness to punish the partner with either psychological emotional abuse or physical violence or by withholding favors or affection o refers to mutual violence between partners that often occurs in conjunction with a o ex slapping a mate or silent treatment Common couple violence specific arrangement fewer instances less likely to escalate less severe in terms of injuries Egalitarian norm of marital power o husband s superior economic achievements would be irrelevant to his decision making power because both spouses would have equal power Emotional child abuse or neglect o involves a parent s being often overly harsh and critical failing to provide guidance or being uninterested in a child s needs o allowing kids to watch violence between parents o may occur without physical violence Expert power o the dominant person s superior judgement knowledge or ability ex men have expertise in finances and women w children and domestic o based on the persuasive content of what the dominant person tells another o in reference to spouses ex spouses and current or former boy girlfriends including sphere Informational power individual Intimate partner violence same sex partners o the physical or emotional abuse Legitimate power o stems from the dominant individual s ability to claim authority or the right to request compliance society and culture authorize the power of one or the other partner or both ex husband as the head of household Near peer marriage Pepper Schwartz o believe in equality but the arrival of children and the desire to maximize income meant that the husband didn t participate as much as the couple s egalitarian ideals required Patriarchal norm of marital power o may be so strong that they override personal resources and give considerable or all power to all husbands o male power seen as legitimate power resources cultural context confers marital power in traditional societies that legitimate male dominance with a patriarchal norm o husbands will almost inevitably dominate regardless of personal resources o a male partner s need for power and control may result in both psychoemotional Patriarchal terrorism and physical violence Peer marriage Pepper Schwartz o couples with no less than a 60 40 split of child rearing housework and control of discretionary funds o considered themselves to have equal status or standing in the relationship o not caused by feminist ideology o caused by rejection of negative parental models a desire to undertake co parenting period of tension in marriage that required the renegotiation of marital roles in some cases requires intense desire to have such a marriage Power the ability to exercise one s will o personal power power exercised over one s self important in self development o social power the ability of people to exercise their wills over the wills of others parental power intimate partner power refers to unmarried couples or to unmarried and married couples marital power between husbands and wives decision making who gets to make decisions about where the couple lives how they spend leisure time division of labor who earns money works around the house allocation of money earned by one or both partners who controls spending for the household who can access personal spending money sense of empowerment being able to influence a partner feeling free to complain to one s spouse about the relationship objective measure of power who makes more or more important decisions subjective measure of fairness equality both partners should share equally in the rights and responsibilities of the relationship equity rewards and privileges of the relationship proportional to the contributions of the partners Referent power o based on a person s emotional identification with the partner when family members share a common identity an individual gets emotional satisfaction from thinking and the more dominant person does Resource hypothesis variation of the exchange theory o the spouse with more resources has more power in the marriage resources education earnings good judgement effect encouraged people to marital power as shared rather than as patriarchal and resting on their individual attributes or resources o criticisms women made less important decisions narrow focus background and abilities Reward power o based on an individual s ability to give material or nonmaterial gifts and favors ranging from emotional support and attention to financial support or recreational travel Sexual abuse o a child s being forced tricked or coerced into sexual behavior exposure unwanted kissing fondling of sexual organs intercourse rape and incest with an older person Sibling violence often overlooked and rarely studied o situational not based on personality o not just kid stuff o occurs when parents are absent from the home or when they have their own o results in trauma anxiety and depression and increase likelihood to perpetrate problems violence as adults Violence Chapter 11 o an act carried out with the intention or perceived intention of causing physical pain or injury to another person Belligerence one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse o a behavior that is provocative and that challenges the spouse s power and authority o one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Contempt one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse o a feeling that one s partner is inferior or undesirable ex eye rolling Criticism one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse o making disapproving judgements or evaluations of one s partner Defensiveness one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse o preparing to defend oneself against what one presumes is an upcoming attack Displacement o a person directs anger at people or things that the other cherishes Female demand male withdraw communication pattern o suggests that women and men differ in their responses to negative affect in close relationships o when
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