When Parents Place Minimal Demands on Children and Allow the Children

question 242

Multiple Choice

When parents place minimal demands on children and allow the children to run their own lives, their approach to parenting is to use a(n) _____ parenting style.

• A) permissive
• B) authoritative
• C) neglectful
• D) authoritarian

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Definitions:

Experimental Realism

The extent to which study participants get so caught up in the procedures that they forget they are in an experiment.

Mundane Realism

The degree to which an experiment or research setting resembles the real-world scenarios it aims to replicate or study.

"Real World"

Term often used to refer to the practical, everyday life experiences and situations outside of controlled or theoretical environments.

Field Experiments

Research studies conducted in natural settings outside the laboratory to study the effect of independent variables on real-life behaviors.