If Parents Change to Less Punitive Parenting, Their Children's Levels

question 432

Multiple Choice

If parents change to less punitive parenting, their children's levels of aggression will

• A) decline, at least for younger children.
• B) decline no matter the age of the child or adolescent.
• C) increase since the parents will be unable to suppress the misbehaviors and the aggression with milder punishment.
• D) remain the same since aggressiveness depends more on a child's temperament than the discipline style.

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Definitions:

Sigmund Freud

An Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, known for his theories on the unconscious mind, mechanisms of repression, and the psychosexual stages of development.

Sexual Repression

The act of suppressing or restraining sexual desires and expressions, often due to cultural, social, or personal reasons, which can lead to psychological distress or dysfunction.

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis, a method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Preconscious Mind

A part of the mind that contains thoughts, feelings, and memories not currently in consciousness but can be readily brought into consciousness.