Explain the Difference Between a Need and a Want

question 29

Essay

Explain the difference between a need and a want. Provide an example of each.

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Definitions:

Baumrind's Parenting Styles

A model that classifies parental behaviors into three main types: authoritarian, permissive, and authoritative, based on the level of responsiveness and demandingness.

Power Assertion

A disciplinary tactic employed by parents or caregivers involving the use of authority, threats, or physical force to enforce child compliance.

Authoritarian

describes a leadership or governing style characterized by strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.

Language Acquisition Device (LAD)

A hypothetical module of the human mind posited to account for children's innate predisposition for language acquisition.