Want to see correct answers?
Login or join for free!
  printable Worksheets
Looking for printable worksheets?
Check out our pre-made printable worksheets!
Share/Like This Page
Filter By Grade

You are browsing Graduate questions. View questions in All Grades.

Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 11 Grade 12 College Graduate

Browse Questions

Graduate Sociology Questions

You can create printable tests and worksheets from these Graduate Sociology questions! Select one or more questions using the checkboxes above each question. Then click the add selected questions to a test button before moving to another page.

Previous Page 4 of 5 Next
Graduate Sociology
Which is NOT a characteristic of "White Noise Therapy?"
  1. The family therapist equally engages and rewards each member in the family system within each therapeutic session.
  2. The therapist has no goal to any session and is very active.
  3. Ventilation and crisis provoking is encouraged.
Graduate Sociology
Which best describes the dynamics of a conversation among members of an enmeshed family?
  1. Stable, repetitive, almost no variety.
  2. Complex nonlinear patterns, can lead anywhere, dis-similar.
Graduate Sociology
_____ occurs when a system is moving from linear behavior to nonlinearity (a fork in the road).
  1. Bifurcation
  2. Perturbation
  3. Self-Organizing
  4. Butterfly Effect
Graduate Sociology
The second shift in family therapy seems to be attributed primarily to the Milan group. What was the primary focus of their approach?
  1. Autocorrecting and feedback
  2. Coaching and intervention
  3. Hypotheses and pathology
  4. Congruence and respect
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
Which is NOT a characteristic of Critical Feedback Stabilization (CFS) interventions?
  1. The therapist performing family intervention for the purpose of crisis stabilization allows the family to go in any direction that they want, until there is a perceived danger.
  2. CFS therapeutic interventions are brief and to the point.
  3. The therapist is fairly passive, unless he thinks that a specific family member's behaviors are "out of bounds," then he will say so.
  4. CFS is more successful when used in instrumental crises and contraindicated in perceptual crises.
Graduate Sociology
Which is NOT a likely therapeutic treatment strategy for an undifferentiated family?
  1. Utilize a behavioral or cognitive behavioral intervention designed to reduce general stress sensitivity.
  2. Utilize long-term techniques including desensitization, group relaxation and writing assignments.
  3. Utilize techniques to create a systemic impetus for a reorganizing crisis.
  4. Utilize individual therapy techniques to directly challenge family rituals to increase differentiation among family members.
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.
Graduate Sociology
________________ points out that the ultimate effects of an action may not change the targeted situation in the long run, and may even exacerbate that situation.
  1. Equifinality
  2. Multifinality
Graduate Sociology
Which is NOT one of the three axes of the Circumplex Model used to describe independent dimensions of family functioning?
  1. Adaptability
  2. Differentiation
  3. Cohesion
  4. Communication/Facilitation
Graduate Sociology
Which is NOT a chaos theory approach to psychotherapy outcomes?
  1. Chaos theory suggests that virtually every psychotherapy outcome study must now be recognized as theoretically inadequate.
  2. Chaos theory suggests that we use the linear model of change to see the effect of therapy at the time it ends or slightly soon after.
  3. Chaos theory suggests that more appropriate data collections will be much more difficult.
  4. Chaos theory indicates that our outcome evaluation will have to include many other systems than simply the identified client and their therapist.
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
Which is NOT a property of Bertalanffy's concept of "open system?"
  1. Wholeness
  2. Nonsummativity
  3. Multifinality
  4. Feedback
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
Which is a FALSE statement when considering Hanson's concept of "Feedback?"
  1. The process of feedback steers the system.
  2. Feedback can be traced to the intuitive observation of 'the more things change, the more they stay the same.'
  3. Negative feedback leads to change while positive feedback leads to no change.
  4. Never changing and always changing are potentially equally destructive.
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
____ crises occur when an influential person in the family system suddenly says "I've had enough."
  1. Instrumental
  2. Perceptual
Previous Page 4 of 5 Next