AMFTRB Exam Questions with (Latest Questions with Correct Answers
Question 1:
Psuedomutality
Answer:
describes a systemic pretense of harmony and closeness that hides conflict and interferes with
intimacy (Lyman Wynne, 1940s)
Question 2:
Psuedohostility
Answer:
Arguing and bickering that hides "pathological alignments" in families
A volatile and intense way of disguising and distorting both affection and splits Prevents open
communication and quality relationships (Lyman Wynne, 1940s)
Question 3:
Rubber-Fence Boundary
Answer:
Families are seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly impermeable to information from the
outside; boundaries bind them together in their resistance to separation" Appear open and
flexible but are closed. (Lyman Wynne, 1940s)
Question 4:
John Bowlby
Answer:
Attachment theory. Identified the characteristics of a child's attachment to his/her caregiver
and the phases that a child experiences when separated
from the caregiver.
Question 5:
Different attachment styles (Bowlby, 1949)
Answer:
Secure Attachment
Insecure Attachment (Anxious-Avoidant) Insecure Attachment (Ambivalent-Resistant)
Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment
,Question 6:
Theodore Lidz
Answer:
Professor out of Yale, researched schizophrenia and the marital couple's influence on the
development of schizophrenia in a child (1950s)
-Marital Schism: Parents overly focused on their own problems which harms the marriage,
individuals, and the children.
Question 7:
Theodore Lidz
Answer:
Professor out of Yale, researched schizophrenia and the marital couple's influence on the
development of schizophrenia in a child (1950s)
-Marital Schism: Parents overly focused on their own problems which harms the marriage,
individuals, and the children.
-Marital Skew: One parent dominates the family and the other is dependent.-Marital Skew: One
parent dominates the family and the other is dependent.
-Marital Skew: One parent dominates the family and the other is dependent.
-Marital Skew: One parent dominates the family and the other is dependent.
Question 8:
"Family process" (peer-reviewed journal)
Answer:
Founded by Don Jackson and Nathan Ackerman, edited by Jay Haley (1962)
Question 9:
Mental Research Institute (MRI)
Answer:
MRI; Mental Research Institute A center for the study of families in Palo, Alto, CA whose
researchers and practioners- Bateson, Jackson,
Satir, Weakland, Fry, and Haley studied schizophrenia and family interactions,
communication, and cybernetic theory. They emphasized process and interactional sequences
rather than structure, and distinguished between first-order and second-order change. They
developed a version of Brief Family Therapy based on the notion that the "problem" or tx focus,
stems from the failed solution previously attempted by the family.
Question 10:
Norbert Wiener
Answer:
Coined the term and theory "cybernetics"
, Question 11:
General Systems Theory
Answer:
living systems are like cybernetic systems that are equipped w/ complex feed systems capable
of maintaining a desired state of affairs (i.e. homeostasis) → leads to Bowlby's system of
behavior control
Question 12:
Double bind theory
Answer:
distinct pattern of communication in which one
individual receives contradictory commands from which there is no escape (lose, lose situation)
Question 13:
6 characteristic of a double bind
Answer:
Communication involves 2 or more people who are involved in an important emotional
relationship. The pattern of communication and the relationship is a repeated experience.
The communication involves a primary negative injunction--or a command not to do (some act)
or not to NOT do (some act), either of which come with a threat of punishment.
Question 1:
Psuedomutality
Answer:
describes a systemic pretense of harmony and closeness that hides conflict and interferes with
intimacy (Lyman Wynne, 1940s)
Question 2:
Psuedohostility
Answer:
Arguing and bickering that hides "pathological alignments" in families
A volatile and intense way of disguising and distorting both affection and splits Prevents open
communication and quality relationships (Lyman Wynne, 1940s)
Question 3:
Rubber-Fence Boundary
Answer:
Families are seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly impermeable to information from the
outside; boundaries bind them together in their resistance to separation" Appear open and
flexible but are closed. (Lyman Wynne, 1940s)
Question 4:
John Bowlby
Answer:
Attachment theory. Identified the characteristics of a child's attachment to his/her caregiver
and the phases that a child experiences when separated
from the caregiver.
Question 5:
Different attachment styles (Bowlby, 1949)
Answer:
Secure Attachment
Insecure Attachment (Anxious-Avoidant) Insecure Attachment (Ambivalent-Resistant)
Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment
,Question 6:
Theodore Lidz
Answer:
Professor out of Yale, researched schizophrenia and the marital couple's influence on the
development of schizophrenia in a child (1950s)
-Marital Schism: Parents overly focused on their own problems which harms the marriage,
individuals, and the children.
Question 7:
Theodore Lidz
Answer:
Professor out of Yale, researched schizophrenia and the marital couple's influence on the
development of schizophrenia in a child (1950s)
-Marital Schism: Parents overly focused on their own problems which harms the marriage,
individuals, and the children.
-Marital Skew: One parent dominates the family and the other is dependent.-Marital Skew: One
parent dominates the family and the other is dependent.
-Marital Skew: One parent dominates the family and the other is dependent.
-Marital Skew: One parent dominates the family and the other is dependent.
Question 8:
"Family process" (peer-reviewed journal)
Answer:
Founded by Don Jackson and Nathan Ackerman, edited by Jay Haley (1962)
Question 9:
Mental Research Institute (MRI)
Answer:
MRI; Mental Research Institute A center for the study of families in Palo, Alto, CA whose
researchers and practioners- Bateson, Jackson,
Satir, Weakland, Fry, and Haley studied schizophrenia and family interactions,
communication, and cybernetic theory. They emphasized process and interactional sequences
rather than structure, and distinguished between first-order and second-order change. They
developed a version of Brief Family Therapy based on the notion that the "problem" or tx focus,
stems from the failed solution previously attempted by the family.
Question 10:
Norbert Wiener
Answer:
Coined the term and theory "cybernetics"
, Question 11:
General Systems Theory
Answer:
living systems are like cybernetic systems that are equipped w/ complex feed systems capable
of maintaining a desired state of affairs (i.e. homeostasis) → leads to Bowlby's system of
behavior control
Question 12:
Double bind theory
Answer:
distinct pattern of communication in which one
individual receives contradictory commands from which there is no escape (lose, lose situation)
Question 13:
6 characteristic of a double bind
Answer:
Communication involves 2 or more people who are involved in an important emotional
relationship. The pattern of communication and the relationship is a repeated experience.
The communication involves a primary negative injunction--or a command not to do (some act)
or not to NOT do (some act), either of which come with a threat of punishment.
