COUC 601 EXAM 1 EXAM SCRIPT
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
●● Who developed Double blind Theory
Answer: Gregory Bateson
●● Basics of double blind Theory
Answer: Theory of schizophrenia as a relationship phenomenon rather
than an intrapsychic disorder.
drawling attention to the family context that gave symptoms meaning.
its effort to look beyond the symptomatic person is family transactions
was ground breaking in directing researchers to examine what occurs in
the exchange of information and the process of relationships between
persons as in a family.
●● First order cybernetics
Answer: A view from outside the system of the feedback loops and
homeostatic mechanisms that transpire within a system.
●● First order cybernetics continue
Answer: Means of understanding the general principles of how systems
of all kinds are self-regulated and thus maintain their stability
, ●● Continue first order cybernetics
Answer: attention was directed towards structure, patterns of
organization and control through feedback cycles.
●● Second order cybernetics
Answer: A view of an observing system in which the therapist, rather
than attempting to describe the system by being an outside observer, is
part of what is being observed and treated.
●● Second order cybernetics continue
Answer: Lynn Hoffman and postmodern family therapists.
there can not be no outside independent observer of a system, since
anyone attempting to observe and change a system is by definition a
participant who both influences and in turn is influenced by that system
●● Second order cybernetics and first order cybernetics differ
Answer: First order cybernetics paradigm conceives of two separate
systems, the therapist system and the problem-client family system.
therapist is the external observer who attempts to effect changes by
means of interventions from the outside.
Second order cybernetics is one big system of family and therapist who
work together to find meaning and in the process "re-Author" lives and
relationships.
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
●● Who developed Double blind Theory
Answer: Gregory Bateson
●● Basics of double blind Theory
Answer: Theory of schizophrenia as a relationship phenomenon rather
than an intrapsychic disorder.
drawling attention to the family context that gave symptoms meaning.
its effort to look beyond the symptomatic person is family transactions
was ground breaking in directing researchers to examine what occurs in
the exchange of information and the process of relationships between
persons as in a family.
●● First order cybernetics
Answer: A view from outside the system of the feedback loops and
homeostatic mechanisms that transpire within a system.
●● First order cybernetics continue
Answer: Means of understanding the general principles of how systems
of all kinds are self-regulated and thus maintain their stability
, ●● Continue first order cybernetics
Answer: attention was directed towards structure, patterns of
organization and control through feedback cycles.
●● Second order cybernetics
Answer: A view of an observing system in which the therapist, rather
than attempting to describe the system by being an outside observer, is
part of what is being observed and treated.
●● Second order cybernetics continue
Answer: Lynn Hoffman and postmodern family therapists.
there can not be no outside independent observer of a system, since
anyone attempting to observe and change a system is by definition a
participant who both influences and in turn is influenced by that system
●● Second order cybernetics and first order cybernetics differ
Answer: First order cybernetics paradigm conceives of two separate
systems, the therapist system and the problem-client family system.
therapist is the external observer who attempts to effect changes by
means of interventions from the outside.
Second order cybernetics is one big system of family and therapist who
work together to find meaning and in the process "re-Author" lives and
relationships.
