DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
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Question
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parents are both demanding and responsive
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parents submit to their children’s desires, make few demands, and use little punishment
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Parents impose rules and expect obedience
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Authoritative. In this parenting style, the parents are nurturing, responsive, and supportive, yet set firm limits for their children. They attempt to control children’s behavior by explaining rules, discussing, and reasoning. They listen to a child’s viewpoint but don’t always accept it.
Detailed explanation-2: -Summed up, some researchers have described it this way: Authoritative parents are highly demanding (like authoritarian parents), but they are also very responsive to their children’s needs (Maccoby and Martin 1983).
Detailed explanation-3: -Authoritative parents are both demanding and responsive. “They monitor and impart clear standards for their children’s conduct. They are assertive, but not intrusive and restrictive.
Detailed explanation-4: -Authoritarian parenting is demanding but not responsive. Permissive parenting is responsive but not demanding. And uninvolved parenting is neither demanding nor responsive.
Detailed explanation-5: -Parental responsiveness is the extent to which parents are sensitive to the individual characteristics and developmental needs of their child. The continuum of parental demandingness refers to parents’ willingness to set limits for children’s behavior, and to enforce consequences of violating these limits.