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Chapter 02: Family Development: Continuity and Change
1. The developmental approach to family life focuses upon the family’s:
a. organization and structure.
b. pathology patterns.
c. life cycle.
d. operations as a social system
ANSWER: c
2. Developmental tasks:
a. always involve children.
b. occur at all stages of the life cycle.
c. rarely involve family conflict.
d. always impede family functioning.
ANSWER: b
3. A family stage marker refers to:
a. a particular life event.
b. a stage of life.
c. the final decade of life.
d. All of the answers are correct.
ANSWER: a
4. Family stage markers are events in a family’s life that:
a. demand a new adaptation.
b. differentiate one stage of life from the next.
c. mark the close of the childbearing years.
d. None of the answers are correct.
ANSWER: a
5. Which of the following is an example of a discontinuous life change?
a. Death of a grandparent
b. Death of a young child
c. Becoming parents
d. None of the answers are correct.
ANSWER: b
6. Family therapists with a transgenerational view:
a. attend to a family’s intergenerational issues.
b. reject the notion of therapist as outside expert.
c. are less interested in a family’s “stuck” places than are the social constructionists.
d. are sometimes referred to as structuralists.
ANSWER: a
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7. Which of the following is not an example of a discontinuous life style change event in a family’s history?
a. Birth of a handicapped child
b. Father’s retirement
c. Birth of a child to midlife parents
d. Birth of a child to a teenage girl
ANSWER: b
8. From a family life cycle perspective, psychiatric symptoms in a family member represent:
a. intrapsychic distress.
b. interpersonal distress
c. a signal that the family is having problems mastering the tasks at that stage in the cycle
d. a learned response to anxiety.
ANSWER: c
9. The developmental framework for studying families was first proposed by family:
a. therapists.
b. counselors.
c. sociologists.
d. social workers.
ANSWER: c
10. The leading advocates today of a multidimensional, multicultural view of the life cycle concept are:
a. Duvall and Hill.
b. Duvall and Miller.
c. Carter and Strauss.
d. Carter and McGoldrick.
ANSWER: d
11. The major transition to be achieved before launching children involves:
a. introducing them to school.
b. introducing them to social groups
c. experimenting with late teen independence.
d. parents letting go and facing each other.
ANSWER: c
12. Which of the following constitutes a horizontal stressor?
a. Family expectations
b. Birth of a handicapped child
c. Ethnic loyalties
d. Family secrets
ANSWER: b
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Chapter 02: Family Development: Continuity and Change
13. An example of a vertical stressor is:
a. a family coping with changes over time
b. dealing with family transitions.
c. precocious physical development in a child.
d. attitudes passing down over generations.
ANSWER: d
14. Most of today’s immigrants to the United States come from:
a. Eastern Europe
b. Western Europe.
c. Asia and Latin America
d. Europe and Asia.
ANSWER: c
15. A shortcoming in the family life stage perspective is:
a. it is explanatory rather than descriptive.
b. it offers normative data on extended families only.
c. it emphasizes individual difference in the timings of modal events.
d. it does not deal with transition periods between stages.
ANSWER: d
16. Combrinck-Graham suggests that family development frequently alternates between:
a. centripetal and centrifugal periods.
b. horizontal and vertical stresses.
c. stage oscillations.
d. linear and circular causality.
ANSWER: a
17. Breunlin contends that family development usually:
a. occurs in discrete shifts from stage to stage
b. occurs in discontinuous shifts from stage to stage.
c. involves centripetal and centrifugal periods.
d. occurs as gradual oscillations.
ANSWER: d
18. Which of the following characterizes emerging adulthood?
a. A heightened sense of assuming responsibilities
b. Launching children
c. Initial experiences of sexual exploration
d. Consolidating gender
ANSWER: a
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TEST BANK
,Family Therapy An Overview 9th Edition Goldenberg Test Bank
Name: Class: Date:
Chapter 02: Family Development: Continuity and Change
1. The developmental approach to family life focuses upon the family’s:
a. organization and structure.
b. pathology patterns.
c. life cycle.
d. operations as a social system
ANSWER: c
2. Developmental tasks:
a. always involve children.
b. occur at all stages of the life cycle.
c. rarely involve family conflict.
d. always impede family functioning.
ANSWER: b
3. A family stage marker refers to:
a. a particular life event.
b. a stage of life.
c. the final decade of life.
d. All of the answers are correct.
ANSWER: a
4. Family stage markers are events in a family’s life that:
a. demand a new adaptation.
b. differentiate one stage of life from the next.
c. mark the close of the childbearing years.
d. None of the answers are correct.
ANSWER: a
5. Which of the following is an example of a discontinuous life change?
a. Death of a grandparent
b. Death of a young child
c. Becoming parents
d. None of the answers are correct.
ANSWER: b
6. Family therapists with a transgenerational view:
a. attend to a family’s intergenerational issues.
b. reject the notion of therapist as outside expert.
c. are less interested in a family’s “stuck” places than are the social constructionists.
d. are sometimes referred to as structuralists.
ANSWER: a
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Chapter 02: Family Development: Continuity and Change
7. Which of the following is not an example of a discontinuous life style change event in a family’s history?
a. Birth of a handicapped child
b. Father’s retirement
c. Birth of a child to midlife parents
d. Birth of a child to a teenage girl
ANSWER: b
8. From a family life cycle perspective, psychiatric symptoms in a family member represent:
a. intrapsychic distress.
b. interpersonal distress
c. a signal that the family is having problems mastering the tasks at that stage in the cycle
d. a learned response to anxiety.
ANSWER: c
9. The developmental framework for studying families was first proposed by family:
a. therapists.
b. counselors.
c. sociologists.
d. social workers.
ANSWER: c
10. The leading advocates today of a multidimensional, multicultural view of the life cycle concept are:
a. Duvall and Hill.
b. Duvall and Miller.
c. Carter and Strauss.
d. Carter and McGoldrick.
ANSWER: d
11. The major transition to be achieved before launching children involves:
a. introducing them to school.
b. introducing them to social groups
c. experimenting with late teen independence.
d. parents letting go and facing each other.
ANSWER: c
12. Which of the following constitutes a horizontal stressor?
a. Family expectations
b. Birth of a handicapped child
c. Ethnic loyalties
d. Family secrets
ANSWER: b
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, Name: Class: Date:
Chapter 02: Family Development: Continuity and Change
13. An example of a vertical stressor is:
a. a family coping with changes over time
b. dealing with family transitions.
c. precocious physical development in a child.
d. attitudes passing down over generations.
ANSWER: d
14. Most of today’s immigrants to the United States come from:
a. Eastern Europe
b. Western Europe.
c. Asia and Latin America
d. Europe and Asia.
ANSWER: c
15. A shortcoming in the family life stage perspective is:
a. it is explanatory rather than descriptive.
b. it offers normative data on extended families only.
c. it emphasizes individual difference in the timings of modal events.
d. it does not deal with transition periods between stages.
ANSWER: d
16. Combrinck-Graham suggests that family development frequently alternates between:
a. centripetal and centrifugal periods.
b. horizontal and vertical stresses.
c. stage oscillations.
d. linear and circular causality.
ANSWER: a
17. Breunlin contends that family development usually:
a. occurs in discrete shifts from stage to stage
b. occurs in discontinuous shifts from stage to stage.
c. involves centripetal and centrifugal periods.
d. occurs as gradual oscillations.
ANSWER: d
18. Which of the following characterizes emerging adulthood?
a. A heightened sense of assuming responsibilities
b. Launching children
c. Initial experiences of sexual exploration
d. Consolidating gender
ANSWER: a
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