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Graduate Sociology
Which is a FALSE statement concerning suicidal behavior?
  1. Suicidal behavior is always embedded in a pattern of interaction in the family set in motion by some threat to the system, either to force change or to force stability.
  2. Suicidal behavior can emerge as either a form of positive or negative feedback.
  3. Understanding the symbolic act characterized by suicidal behavior is an important part of the assessment and treatment planning.
  4. Suicidal behavior is a process or pattern that identifies a family trait of suicide.
Graduate Sociology
What is the greatest limitation to establishing a workable theory for family therapy?
  1. Obtaining enough large data sets
  2. Sampling large numbers of data from a single subject design
  3. Studying a single patient/therapist interaction
Graduate Sociology
Which in NOT a new theory that best represents science and family therapy today and possibly in the future?
  1. Chaos Theory
  2. Complexity Theory
  3. Conflict Theory
  4. New Physics Theory
Graduate Sociology
The statement "You cannot not communicate." is closely related to _________.
  1. cybernetics
  2. context
  3. causality
  4. co-emergence
Graduate Sociology
According to Hanson, "Humans interpret and create a world of __________ that mediates all behavior."
  1. Content
  2. Context
  3. Meaning
  4. Mediation
Graduate Sociology
Taking a systems notion into theory is significant in that it necessitates formulating constructs that work at the level of _____.
  1. Immediacy
  2. Interconnectedness
  3. Objectivity
  4. Linear causality
Graduate Sociology
_____ is defined as "living beings are characterized in that they are continually self-producing."
  1. Transformation
  2. Autopoiesis
  3. Autocorrecting
  4. Totality
Graduate Sociology
The hypotheses that a given experience, personality variable, or family type has a specific and proportional effect on cognition, behavior, or other action is an example of ______.
  1. Linear Model
  2. Nonlinear Dynamics
  3. Differential Equations
Graduate Sociology
Which group develops theory to explain testable hypotheses?
  1. Theorists
  2. Modelers
Graduate Sociology
Based on Hanson's explanation of "action and inaction," which is a false statement?
  1. You cannot not communicate.
  2. There is no such thing as irrelevance in interrelated parts.
  3. It is possible to trace nonthings.
  4. If one part does nothing, there is no change.
Graduate Sociology
Chaos theory indicates that there are limits on predicting the length of treatment. Which is a FALSE statement?
  1. Chaos theory allows us to make better qualitative predictions, but less meaningful and accurate quantitative predictions.
  2. Chaos theory will free us from the mistaken belief that prediction is the same as understanding.
  3. Chaos theory will enable us to make perfect predictions from linear methods, providing the specific model we have developed is both accurate and appropriate to the phenomenon being studied.
  4. There exists complex chaotic systems whose behavior cannot be predicted even if we know all the initial conditions exactly.
Graduate Sociology
Two approaches are used in applying chaos theory to modes of therapy: the "theorist" and the "modelers". Which group plugs data into methods of analysis to detect the presence or absence of chaos?
  1. Theorists
  2. Modelers
Graduate Sociology
Which is NOT a characteristic of Cybernetics?
  1. One's belief that something will happen can make it happen.
  2. One's actions have only direct linear effects.
  3. One has the ability to reflect upon one's self-worth.
  4. One is able to mediate outcomes based on emergent group properties.
Graduate Sociology
A wholes approach to "change" involves seeing that .......
  1. change is dynamic and static.
  2. change is linear or in finite sequence.
  3. change is the endpoint or outcome.
Graduate Sociology
Based on Chaos Theory, certain metaphors may be applied to behaviors observed in families. Which is NOT one?
  1. A compressed rubber ball being bounced around.
  2. A butterfly flitting around.
  3. A computer shutting down.
  4. A snow avalanche careening down a slope.
Graduate Sociology
_____ is an attractor whose movement varies wildly but seems to have a pattern in its search for a new solution to a novel situation.
  1. A Fixed Point Attractor
  2. A Cyclic Attractor
  3. A Strange Attractor
Graduate Sociology
Which of the following is a FALSE statement?
  1. No two loops of an attractor are exact replicas.
  2. Attractor patterns are complex maps that capture the interplay between instability and change in systems.
  3. Strange attractors can be thought of as an idealized state toward which an unpredictable or dynamical system is attracted.
  4. Multiple levels of nonlinear processes unfold constantly and simultaneously even in the simplest of relationships
Graduate Sociology
Which statement is FALSE?
  1. Interventions in which the therapist makes a decision for the family, usually over the family's objections has been labeled "ego lending."
  2. Paradoxical or systemic interventions rarely work quickly and results may be unpredictable.
  3. The more controlling a therapeutic technique is, the more likely that the system will be able to self-organize.
  4. Intervention techniques such as problem solving and reframing allows diverse subsystems to attune their functioning.
Graduate Sociology
Relationships can be conceived as existing in ______ instead of ______.
  1. Phrase Space/Phase Space
  2. Phase Space/Phrase Space
Graduate Sociology
Of the three models presented in this book, which one has been the one most frequently applied in family therapy to date?
  1. Chaos Theory
  2. Complexity Theory
  3. Conflict Theory
  4. New Physics Theory
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