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Graduate Sociology
Which is a TRUE statement as applied to Chaos Theory?
  1. Orderly structures and immutable laws operate to maintain order.
  2. Our presence in the environment does not alter it.
  3. The universe operates predictably.
  4. Order is chaos in nature.
Graduate Sociology
The Family Adjustment and Adaptation Response Model (FAAR) by McCubbin & Patterson (1983)studies the interactions among three types of variables. What are they?
  1. Demand, Capabilities, Meanings
  2. Stressors, Resources, Crisis
  3. Perceptions, Meanings, Suicide
  4. Demand, Buffers, Stability
Graduate Sociology
"You can't unscramble an egg" best describes the theoretical construct of ____
  1. Objectivity.
  2. Irreversibility.
  3. Punctuated Equilibria.
  4. Unpredictability.
Graduate Sociology
Which is NOT a key characteristic to chaos or chaotic systems?
  1. Initial differences result in errors that grow exponentially over time.
  2. The system is complex, appears random, and is unpredictabgle.
  3. The system is intrinsically orderly, stable, and equilibrial.
  4. The system is in an essential state for transformation.
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
Applying the concept of chaos theory to the field of psychological means that psychological theories in the future will be .....
  1. more reductionistic and replicable.
  2. more objective and naturalistic.
  3. more mathematical and linear.
  4. more contextual, subjective, and humanistic.
Graduate Sociology
The spontaneous emergence of order out of chaos reflecting the capacity of all living systems to generate their own new forms from inner guidelines.
  1. Point Attractor
  2. Self-Organizing
  3. Butterfly Effect
  4. Period-Doubling Route
Graduate Sociology
______ is an attractor that seems to be in a steady state, but is beyond rest and does not vary dramatically.
  1. A Fixed Point Attractor
  2. A Cyclic Attractor
  3. A Strange Attractor
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
Which of the following is not a metaphor for the concept of "strange attractor?"
  1. A bowl of spaghetti
  2. The sound of an automobile engine
  3. The burst of fireworks in the night sky
  4. Smoke rising from a cigarette
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
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
Which group develops theory to explain testable hypotheses?
  1. Theorists
  2. Modelers
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
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
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
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
_____ is defined as "living beings are characterized in that they are continually self-producing."
  1. Transformation
  2. Autopoiesis
  3. Autocorrecting
  4. Totality
Graduate Sociology
Two concepts that are closely related to Hanson's wholes approach to meaning are
  1. Symbolic Interactionalism; Constructivism
  2. Constructivism; Cause/Effect
  3. Symbolic Interactionism; Isolationism
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