Study Questions Number 13
Discussion/Writing Assignment

Moeller Chapter 5. Family factors. Pages 98-111.

Date: 10-19-04
Psychology/Criminal Justice 317

Hal S. Bertilson, Ph.D.
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1. Parents of hyperaggressive children tend to show high rates of what three (3) types of psychopathology? (99)
2. According to Patterson's theory, describe the sequence of interactions between the child and parent beginning with a parental request or command which leads to the development of hyperaggression in the child. (105)
3. According to Patterson's theory, describe the sequence of interactions between the child and parent arising when the child makes a demand which leads to the development of hyperaggression in the child. (105)
4. According to Patterson, how is the reciprocal parent-child behavior pattern learned in such a way that "the child eventually learns to control other family members through coercive means?" (105-106)
6. On the basis of his past research, Patterson hypothesizes what four (4) specific child management problems faced by parents of highly aggressive children? (106)
7. Parents of problem children tend to give beta commands rather than alpha commands. What is meant by the terms beta and alpha commands? (107)
8. How important is parental supervision and monitoring as a predictor of children's later aggressiveness and delinquency? Other research indicates what three (3) reasons why this should be the case? (109-110)
9. How important is parental involvement as a predictor of both early onset of criminal offending and the persistence of offending from 21 to 32? Why is it that parental involvement has that effect? (110)