Chapter 7
Multiple Choice
1. Alberto and Lawanda both work full time. He is a doctor and she is a psychotherapist. They have
not had children together. He has two sons by a previous marriage. Which answer best
describes this couple?
a. A dual career-earner couple
b. Dual-career couple
c. Dual-earner couple
d. None of the above
2. Which of the following might not be considered a kinship maintenance function?
a. Calling your friend to help get your nephew a summer job
b. Sending birthday cards to your grandparents
c. Talking to your sister about community politics
d. Calling your sister when she is sick
3. Which of the following is not an essential family function in roles?
a. Providing resources for food and shelter
b. Maintaining the family system
c. Providing for individual nurturing and counseling
d. Providing for investments for the future
4. The following example illustrates which of Fitzpatrick’s types?: As a couple, Pat and Carma
accept the change and uncertainty of their careers and home life. They tend to ignore schedules
and expected values.
a. Independents
b. Separates
c. Traditionals
d. Independent/separates
5. Which is the correct term for a family that, as being high in conversation orientation and low in
conformity, has open communication and emotionally supports each other?
a. Consensual
b. Protective
c. Pluralistic
d. Laissez-faire
6. Gender socialization includes:
a. Providing children with toys appropriate for their sex
b. Children learning appropriate, gender-based rules of disclosure
c. Restricting children’s activities and interests to what is considered appropriate
d. All of the above
7. Matt and Lisa just had a baby, and Lisa has started to feel completely overwhelmed by the sheer
volume of work she feels she has to do to take care of the baby and maintain the housework.
She and Matt have begun arguing about his responsibilities now that he is a father. The process
that Matt and Lisa are experiencing is called:
a. Conflict cycle
b. Role negotiation
c. Role enactment
d. Dialectical tensions
8. The following illustrates which of Fitzpatrick’s couple types? Pete and Paula as a couple accept
the change and uncertainty of their careers and home life. They usually ignore schedules and
expected values.
a. Independents
b. Separates
c. Traditionals
d. Mixed
9. Parents Crosby and Jasmine disagree on the proper way to discipline their six-year-old son for
hitting his sister. Crosby believes that, as good parents, they should spank him; Jasmine believes
that they should put him in time-out. What part of the role appropriation process does this
demonstrate?
a. Role creation
b. Role appropriation
c. Role enactment
d. Role negotiation
10. In middle school, Rikki was subject to some teasing from the girls in her class. Her parents
decided not to intervene as a way to empower her to manage difficult people. According to
McMaster’s Model of Family Functioning, which role function are her parents exhibiting?
a. Providing gender modeling
b. Providing nurturing
c. Providing emotional support
d. Providing individual development
11. Parents are expected to communicate caring, values, and a sense of community for children as
well as facilitate self-discovery and talent development. These tasks coincide with which role
functions, respectively?
a. Providing nurturing and support; Providing gender socialization
b. Providing gender socialization; Providing nurturing and support
c. Providing nurturing and support; Providing for individual development
d. Providing basic resources; Providing for individual development
12. Who are typically considered the kin-keepers in families?
a. Mothers
b. Fathers
c. Children
d. Grandparents
Answer Key
Quiz True False
1. Instrumental resources refer to providing nurturing and emotional support to other family
members.
a. True
b. False
2. It is not until adolescence that children are aware of the masculine or feminine behaviors
expected of them.
a. True
b. False
3. Role conflict can occur when a significant other has different expectations about the way a
person should be performing a role than the role performer has.
a. True
b. False
4. The degree to which a woman’s gender ideology is traditional may help to predict if she sees
balance in her roles.
a. True
b. False
5. As in the past, roles tend to be tied to age because age is the primary predictor of life stages.
a. True
b. False
6. Family roles are developed and maintained through communication.
a. True
b. False
Answer Key
Chapter 7:
Compare and contrast the two couple typologies or the two family typologies. What do these typologies
have in common? What is different between them? Would it be possible to use more than one typology at
the same time to describe a family or couple?
Using McMaster’s Model of Family Functioning, explain how your own family, a family you know, or a
fictional family fulfills (or does not fulfill) these role functions.