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Graduate Sociology
The major contribution from chaos theory regarding crisis intervention can be stated as:
  1. Perceptual crises that are allayed too quickly will not produce optimal change.
  2. To increase the possibility of self-organization, interventions should be as invasive as possible.
  3. The more controlling of the system an intervention is, the more likely that the family will self-organize.
Graduate Sociology
Which is NOT a property of Bertalanffy's concept of "open system?"
  1. Wholeness
  2. Nonsummativity
  3. Multifinality
  4. Feedback
Graduate Sociology
TRUE or FALSE? Following a steady state, if a new perturbation disturbs the stability of the system sufficiently, it will bifurcate. Pushed even further, it will move toward a chaotic state, after going through a period-doubling route to chaos.
  1. True
  2. False
Graduate Sociology
In Chaos Theory, ________ is the territory in which strange attractors live; and _______ is the boundary of language and communication that organizes relationships.
  1. Phrase Space/Phase Space
  2. Phase Space/Phrase Space
Graduate Sociology
The key to all of the ideas in chaos theory is the concept of ______.
  1. Family Context
  2. Chaos
  3. Instability
  4. Attractors
Graduate Sociology
Which is a FALSE statement concerning the influence of therapists from the chaos theory viewpoint?
  1. Therapists may not have enough immediate and predictable influence in the system to overcome other attractors.
  2. Therapies for families with chronic and long-standing problems may have to go on longer than some therapists wish.
  3. When families are "sick," they can be "cured" through radical intervention.
  4. Rapid therapy may cure the client, and yet it may make the rest of the system sicker.
Graduate Sociology
Which is a FALSE statement concerning destabilization and treatment?
  1. Chaos theory can give us a theoretical rationale for when it is and isn't appropriate to destabilize a family system.
  2. Using traditional linear statistical techniques, we are able to accurately predict early termination about ninety percent of the time.
  3. Destabilization is to be avoided at critical family transitional points.
  4. If symptoms appear suddenly and without substantial buildup, they are generated by a family system that is undergoing significant levels of instability.
Graduate Sociology
T or F. Studies have found that treatment-resistant families are much less likely to respond by acting in synchronicity with the therapist.
  1. True
  2. False
Graduate Sociology
Which is a FALSE statement concerning family destabilization?
  1. Family destabilization may be adversely affected by constraints of managed mental healthcare.
  2. It is difficult to destabilize families that are exhibiting dysfunctional behaviors.
  3. It is impossible to specify the effects on a system in crisis of an intervention.
  4. If there is a reasonable probability that the family will cease treatment, then destabilization is unethical.
Graduate Sociology
______ refers to verbal or written communication; whereas ____ refers to gestures, voice tone, sequence, etc.
  1. Context; content
  2. Command; report
  3. Report; command
  4. Decoding; double bind
Graduate Sociology
____ crises occur when an influential person in the family system suddenly says "I've had enough."
  1. Instrumental
  2. Perceptual
Graduate Sociology
Which is a FALSE statement concerning "measurement error?"
  1. Traditional test construction theory assumes that it is possible to reduce error to about 10% to 20% of a total test variance, but generally no more.
  2. Because of sensitivity to initial conditions, the behavior of chaotic systems can only be predicted for extended periods of time.
  3. Measurement error limits our ability to make predictions much more than in linear models.
  4. Measurement error does not influence recognition of any of the characteristics of nonlinear systems, providing that enough data points are sampled.
Graduate Sociology
Most complex systems cannot be successfully modeled in mathematical terms.
  1. True
  2. False
Graduate Sociology
According to McCown and Johnson (1993), there are two dimensions of family crisis: instrumental and perceptual. Unemployment, accidents, or natural disasters may be examples of which one?
  1. Instrumental Crisis
  2. Perceptual Crisis
Graduate Sociology
Which group believes that chaos only exists if you are able to model it?
  1. Theorists
  2. Modelers
Graduate Sociology
Which is a FALSE statement about family therapy in the future?
  1. Family therapists will be able to surpass the family's natural ability to heal itself.
  2. Therapists will substitute power and control for collaboration.
  3. Minimal intervention will be advantageous because of the danger involved in therapy.
  4. Therapists will intervene only as much as is necessary.
Graduate Sociology
Which is a FALSE statement concerning adjustment and adaptation as seen in the Family Adjustment and Adaptation Response Model (FAAR)?
  1. Adjustment is the attempt to maintain a steady state or balance between demands and capabilities.
  2. Adaptation refers to the precrisis phase and adjustment refers to the postcrisis phase.
  3. Adaptation requires greater change to regain the balance between demands and resources.
  4. New resources, coping mechanisms, or meanings must be developed for adaptation to occur.
Graduate Sociology
_____ supposes that vast, sweeping changes are the result of minute primary differences.
  1. Perturbation
  2. The Butterfly Effect
  3. Period-Doubling Route
  4. Point Attractor
Graduate Sociology
_____ is an attractor whose dynamics represent a system's movement toward rest.
  1. A Fixed Point Attractor
  2. A Cyclic Attractor
  3. A Strange Attractor
Graduate Sociology
Fractals may be described mathematically by a number known as its fractal dimension. Which is a TRUE statement?
  1. The lower the fractal number, the more complex the shape.
  2. The higher the fractional number, the more order and determinism.
  3. Very high fractal dimensions usually indicate the existence of pure random behavior.
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