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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
_____ 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
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
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
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
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
___________ refers to the inference of relationships between things such that the combination brings about a result.
  1. Nonsummativity
  2. Consensus
  3. Causality
  4. Classical conditioning
Graduate Sociology
Relationships can be conceived as existing in ______ instead of ______.
  1. Phrase Space/Phase Space
  2. Phase Space/Phrase Space
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
Graduate Sociology
_______ captures the idea that when you act on a system, a number of different stimuli can lead to the same result.
  1. Equifinality
  2. Multifinality
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
____ is what occurs in a system as it emerges from a chaotic period in a transformational state to become a new steady state.
  1. Self-oranization
  2. Bifurcation
  3. Homeostasis
  4. Linear thinking
Graduate Sociology
Which is NOT likely to be used to demonstrate underlying deterministic nonlinearity (chaos)?
  1. Phase portraits of complex systems
  2. Graphical representations of data rather than numerical analysis
  3. Calculate Lyapunov exponents to measure sensitivity to initial conditions
  4. Calculate a capacity dimension to see the degree of chaos
Graduate Sociology
With the rise of the temperance movement and the formation of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in the early 1900s, Prohibition was put into place. This process best illustrates ____________.
  1. Equifinality
  2. Multifinality
Graduate Sociology
The act of observing people produces changes in their behavior is referred to as ______.
  1. The Butterfly Effect
  2. The Hawthorne Effect
  3. The Chaos Effect
  4. The Whitaker Effect
Graduate Sociology
Which descriptor does NOT fit with theories of family functioning in the future?
  1. Chaos theory suggests that we be very careful before we design soc ial policy for the family.
  2. If we want to strengthen the institution of the family, we must allow for maximal diversity in family types and patterns.
  3. Families are networks of systemic relationships, characterized by a high degree of emotional involvement.
  4. Family functioning relys on the concept of homeostasis and balance.
Graduate Sociology
Which analogy or illustration does NOT imply "Co-emergence?"
  1. A linear model of A+B+C=X
  2. A child's seesaw
  3. The movie WAR GAMES
  4. Apple computers
Graduate Sociology
T or F. It takes approximately 10 to 100 times as long to get physical variables as it does to get behavioral variables.
  1. True
  2. False
Graduate Sociology
Which is NOT a central feature of "Suprarationality?"
  1. Content-level emotion
  2. Context-level emotion
  3. Higher order
  4. Nonlinearity
Graduate Sociology
Which is a FALSE statement?
  1. Complexity threory indicates that for a reorganizqation to occur in the family, there must be an increase in instability or disorder.
  2. Applying the theoretical constructs of chaos theory, family systems should be no more amenable to accurate prediction than weather systems.
  3. Cognitive chaos is necessary for change to occur.
  4. As one moves from the general to the specific, patterns become much easier and predictable.
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