Question

In a developmental psychology class, Trina learned about Baumarind's (1971, 1991) work on parenting styles. She recognized that her parents used an authoritarian style of parenting, as did all her relatives. Because that was the style of parenting she planned to use, she researched the advantages to that style while ignoring any studies that support the use of another parenting style. What is the term for what Trina was doing?

Answer 1

Trina was doing "cherry-picking the evidence".

Explanation:

Parenting is the process bringing up or supporting a child from infancy to adulthood. A good parent helps their child physically, emotionally, socially and also intelligently. Parenting particularly refers to rising of a child and not about the biological relationship.

Good parenting mainly focuses on developing independence in children. There are four different parenting styles: authoritarian, permissive, uninvolved and authoritative.

Cherry picking helped Trina to know about the particular authoritarian parenting style followed by her parents.