Quiz: Family Systems and Structures; Gender, Culture, Ethnicity
Question 12 pts
In families labeled as pathogenic, or poor functioning, demands by an adolescent for a rule
change would likely to be met with:
Answer: increased rigidity attempting to maintain the retention of rules
Question 22 pts
Women are especially vulnerable if divorced later in life because of:
Answer: All of the above
Question 32 pts
Epistemology refers to:
Answer: NOT None of the above
Question 42 pts
Who has been credited for developing the theory of "double bind"?
Answer: Bateson
Question 52 pts
Family narratives:
Answer: help explain and justify family patterns
Question 62 pts
In a joint legal custody arrangement, both parents:
Answer: share decision-making regarding child raising issues
Question 72 pts
Which of the following is NOT an example of a sudden, disruptive and discontinuous life cycle
change event in a family's history?
Answer: Father’s retirement
Question 82 pts
Homeostasis refers to:
Answer: the family’s self-regulating efforts to maintain stability and resist change
Question 92 pts
The family therapist who joins a family and engages in a dialogue rather than observing from
outside is probably an advocate of:
Answer: second-order cybernetics
Question 102 pts
Hardy & Laszloffy have proposed a ____________ to help people trace their heritage
Answer: a cultural genogram
Question 112 pts
A family will have a number or coexisting subsystems. According to the text, which subsystem is
executive and basic in a family?
Answer: husband-wife
Question 122 pts
Men's studies draw attention to the socialization of men toward:
Answer: curtailed emotional expressiveness in men
Question 132 pts
The consultant who takes the interaction of two systems into account is using which approach?
Answer: Ecosystemic
Question 142 pts
Combrinck-Graham suggests that three generational family development frequently alternates
between:
Answer: centripetal and centrifugal periods
Question 152 pts
Anthropologist Bateson has defined _________________ as "a difference that makes a
difference."
Answer: Information
Question 162 pts
Most divorced persons:
Answer: Eventually remarry
Question 172 pts
In working with immigrant families, family therapists need to remain aware of:
Answer: All of the above
Question 182 pts
Life-cycle concepts should be seen within the context of issues such as:
Answer: All of the above
Question 192 pts
Which of the following is an example of a sudden, disruptive, and discontinuous life change?
Answer: Death of a young child
Question 202 pts
Which of the following has not been identified by Walsh as a key process in family resiliency?
Answer: family's life cycle stage
Question 212 pts
Families that live in relative isolation, communicating primarily among themselves, are apt to
become
Answer: relatively closed systems
Question 222 pts
According to the text, the major credit for applying cybernetic principles to human
communication belongs to:
Answer: Bateson
Question 232 pts
Minuchin, a structuralist, views symptomatic behavior in a family member as rooted in:
Answer: dysfunctional family transactions
Question 242 pts
In the view of second-order cyberneticists, which of the following is apt to see family systems as
analogous to mechanical systems?
Answer: first-order cyberneticists
Question 252 pts
For most families, engagement with larger systems are
Answer: time-limited
Question 262 pts
In the case presented by the authors of a Latino family seeking counseling, the presenting
problem involved:
Answer: irregular school attendance
Question 272 pts
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:
Answer: Power
Question 282 pts
The key to understanding how system theory operates:
Answer: stresses wholeness and organization
Question 292 pts
The "identified patient" is the person in the family who:
Answer: All of the above
Question 302 pts
Family loyalty, unity, honor, and obligation are especially important in:
Answer: Latin American Families
Question 312 pts
If content is the language of linear causality, then _________________ is the language of
circular causality:
Answer: process
Question 322 pts
An idiosyncratic family pattern refers to:
Answer: a pattern unique to a specific family
Question 332 pts
The more open a family, the more
Answer: NOT the risk of eventual dysfunction
Question 342 pts
Which group of family therapists is most apt to study family transitions?
Answer: structuralists
Question 352 pts
Gender-sensitive family therapy emphasizes:
Answer: NOT All of the above
Question 362 pts
The theory of social ecology, including four levels of influence, was proposed by
Answer: Bronfenbrenner
Question 372 pts
Children living with unmarried mothers are:
Answer: more likely to be poor
Question 382 pts
Reinsertion into a system of the results of past performances is called:
Answer: Feedback
Question 392 pts
Adopting a family psychology framework permits one to
Answer: focus on the family context for understanding individual functioning
Question 402 pts
An example of a vertical stressor is:
Answer: attitudes passes down over generations
Question 412 pts
A family member's longest set of relationships are likely to be:
Answer: With siblings
Question 422 pts
Families interact in repetitive behavioral sequences. This is known as:
Answer: the redundancy principle
Question 432 pts
A family's metarules refers to
Answer: rules about the rules
Question 442 pts
Classical theories (psychoanalysis) that focus on the individual probably emphasize:
Answer: intrapsychic events
Question 452 pts
Today, working wives:
Answer: All of the above
Question 462 pts
Systems oriented clinicians are most interested in:
Answer: the process that is taking place within a family
Question 472 pts
According to Gilligan, women are more apt than men to:
Answer: define themselves within the context of relationships
Question 482 pts
In the case of single-parent families led by a teenage mother:
Answer: grandmother-mother-daughter relationships are likely to predominate
Question 492 pts
Gender differences in perception and behavior result from:
Answer: both biological and cultural forces
Question 502 pts
When family therapists refer to first-order cybernetics, they are attending to:
Answer: patterns of structure and feedback control that govern systems
