Study Guide, possible quiz questions
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COUC 601-B03 LUO
Test Quiz 1: Family Systems and Structures; Gender,
Culture, Ethnicity
Question 1
2 out of 2 points
In the case presented by the authors of a Latino family seeking counseling, the
presenting problem involved:
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Answer:
irregular school
attendance
Question 2
2 out of 2 points
The _________ of subsystem boundaries is more important for effective familiy function
than the composition of the family subsystems.
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Answer:
clarit
y
Question 3
2 out of 2 points
Children living with unmarried mothers are:
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Answer:
more likely to be
poor
Question 4
2 out of 2 points
In the case of single-parent families led by a teenage mother:
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Answer:
grandmother-mother-daughter relationships are likely to
predominate
Question 5
2 out of 2 points
The erosion of family structure among economically impoverished families often leads
to:
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Answer:
learning to view their impotence as
normal
Question 6
2 out of 2 points
Strategists view psychiatric symptoms in a family member as
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Answer:
a signal that the family unable to move on the
next stage
Question 7
2 out of 2 points
Anthropologist Bateson has defined _________________ as "a difference that makes a
difference."
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Answer:
informati
on
Question 8
2 out of 2 points
Hare-Mustin contend that, as opposed to men, a woman's greater reliance on
relationships can be explained as a need to please others when one lacks:
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Answer:
powe
r
Question 9
2 out of 2 points
Reinsertion into a system of the results of past performances is called:
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Answer:
feedba
ck
Question 10
2 out of 2 points
Family narratives:
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Answer:
help explain and justify family
patterns
Question 11
2 out of 2 points
Many early family therapists operated in a gender-free fashion, and:
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Answer:
saw men and women as having equal power and control
in the family
Question 12
2 out of 2 points
Advocates of a new epistemology, such as Dell, view the therapist's role as helping the
family:
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Answer:
searching for new levels of stability through
reorganization
Question 13
2 out of 2 points
In a joint legal custody arrangement, both parents:
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Answer:
share decision-making regarding child
raising issues
Question 14
2 out of 2 points
According to the text, the major credit for applying cybernetic principles to human
communication belongs to:
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Answer:
Bateso
n
Question 15
2 out of 2 points
Each family system:
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Answer:
all of the
above
Question 16
2 out of 2 points
Cybernetics refers to a system's method of:
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Answer:
feedback
mechanisms
Question 17
2 out of 2 points
Epistemology refers to:
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Answer:
rules for gaining knowledge and drawing conclusions
about the world
Question 18
2 out of 2 points
As children grow up and leave home, the family's developmental task involves:
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Answer:
creating adult-adult relationships between parents
and children
Question 19
2 out of 2 points
A family member's longest set of relationships are likely to be:
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Answer:
with
siblings
Question 20
2 out of 2 points
In working with immigrant families, family therapists need to remain aware of:
Selected
Answer:
all of the
above
Question 21
2 out of 2 points
Most divorced persons:
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Answer:
eventually
remarry
Question 22
2 out of 2 points
A family's metarules refers to
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Answer:
rules about the
rules
Question 23
2 out of 2 points
Today, working wives:
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Answer:
all of the
above
Question 24
2 out of 2 points
A general cultural sensitivity to families characterizes (best answer):
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Answer:
the multicultural
approach
Question 25
2 out of 2 points
The theory of social ecology, including four levels of influence, was proposed by
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Answer:
Bronfenbrenn
er
Question 26
2 out of 2 points
Families coping with an adolescent frequently must deal with:
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Answer:
all of the
above
Question 27
2 out of 2 points
Feminists are critical of the cybernetic concept of circular causality in male-female
relationships because of the implication of:
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Answer:
equal power and
control
Question 28
2 out of 2 points
Families that live in relative isolation, communicating primarily among themselves, are
apt to become
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Answer:
relatively closed
systems
Question 29
2 out of 2 points
Adopting a family psychology framework permits one to
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Answer:
focus on the family context for understanding individual
functioning
Question 30
2 out of 2 points
For most families, engagement with larger systems are
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Answer:
time-
limited
Question 31
2 out of 2 points
Which of the following has not been identified by Walsh as a key process in family
resiliency?
Selected
Answer:
family's life cycle
stage
Question 32
2 out of 2 points
The major transition to be achieved before launching children involves:
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Answer:
accepting child’s independent
adult role
Question 33
2 out of 2 points
The consultant who takes the interaction of two systems into account is using which
approach?
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Answer:
ecosyste
mic
Question 34
2 out of 2 points
In families labeled as pathogenic, or poor functioning, demands by an adolescent for a
rule change would likely to be met with:
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Answer:
increased rigidity attempting to maintain the
retention of rules
Question 35
2 out of 2 points
"A disturbed mother produces disturbed children." This statement is offered by the
authors as an example of:
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Answer:
linear
causality
Question 36
2 out of 2 points
The key to understanding how system theory operates:
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Answer:
stresses wholeness and
organization
Question 37
2 out of 2 points
Hardy & Laszloffy have proposed a ____________ to help people trace their heritage
Selected
Answer:
a cultural
genogram
Question 38
2 out of 2 points
Classical theories (psychoanalysis) that focus on the individual probably emphasize:
Selected
Answer:
intrapsychic
events
Question 39
2 out of 2 points
Gender-sensitive family therapy emphasizes:
Selected
Answer:
empowering beyond their biological
status
Question 40
2 out of 2 points
Minuchin, a structuralist, views symptomatic behavior in a family member as rooted in:
Selected
Answer:
dysfunctional family
transactions
Question 41
2 out of 2 points
One goal of gender-sensitive family therapy is to:
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Answer:
enable clients to move beyond prescribed
sex roles
Question 42
2 out of 2 points
Karpel emphasizes:
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Answer:
all families have resources to
call upon
Question 43
2 out of 2 points
Negative and positive feedback loops are:
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Answer:
neither intrinsically good
or bad
Question 44
2 out of 2 points
Developmental tasks:
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Answer:
define role expectations at all stages of the
life cycle
Question 45
2 out of 2 points
Combrinck-Graham suggests that three generational family development frequently
alternates between:
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Answer:
centripetal and centrifugal
periods
Question 46
2 out of 2 points
Which of the following is NOT considered to be an enduring subsystem?
Selected
Answer:
gend
er
Question 47
2 out of 2 points
Family therapist Virginia Satir helped families
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Answer:
recognize their unwritten
rules
Question 48
2 out of 2 points
The "identified patient" is the person in the family who:
Selected
Answer:
all the
above
Question 49
2 out of 2 points
In the view of second-order cyberneticists, which of the following is apt to see family
systems as analogous to mechanical systems?
Selected
Answer:
first-order
cyberneticists
Question 50
2 out of 2 points
What Carter and McGoldrick refer to as "launching children and moving on" is called
what by Gerson?
Selected
Answer:
contracti
on
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