HDFS 2300 Final Exam questions
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Generation - correct answer ✔✔Links that connect parents and children. These can also be ties to other
people (fictive kin, family friends, etc.) who are also connected to the parents and children.
Generational Process - correct answer ✔✔Connections that people have in terms of:
Traditions
Patterns
Emotions
Values
Ways of Relating
These things become the heritage and determine the lifestyle of each family. Practically every trait of our
personality is from our family.
Generational Process Influence - correct answer ✔✔Generations influence EVERYONE! It influences how
we think, feel, believe, and relate to others. It highlights what is important or unimportant to us. It also
shapes which coping mechanisms we use and how we view the world.
Generations (and more specifically, Generational Processes), dictate how we handle conflict, intimacy,
anger, love, hate, and life in general.
Why is Generational Process Important? - correct answer ✔✔Every aspect of FAMILY LIFE grows out of
and builds upon these processes.
It's influential because some parts are permanent and other parts are difficult to change.
, Generational Processes Principle - correct answer ✔✔Healthy generational processes tend to create
many beautiful and enabling outcomes in family systems.
Unhealthy Generational Processes tend to create serious problems in families. Unhealthy GP's are hard
to identify and fix without help.
For example, when you have dysfunctional ways to handle conflict or intimacy, that's all passed down
through family. If a 9 year old is being sexually abused, they'll probably do it too. This enables the
dysfunctional behavior. No regular 9 year old wants to just molest people, it's logic.
Generational Transmissions - correct answer ✔✔WAYS of behaving, WAYS of feeling, WAYS of relating,
WAYS of defining reality, and WAYS of coping with intimacy or distance. The ways and methodology
taught by our parents is the transmission from one generation to the next.
"It runs in the family!"
Generational Transmission Examples - correct answer ✔✔They can be positive or negative.
Abuse
Addiction
Anger
Parenting Styles
Ways of Giving / Receiving Love
Religion
Optimism / Pessimism
Unhealthy Transmission - correct answer ✔✔Levels of differentiation and parents' unresolved emotional
attachments are reenacted in future relationships and passed along to succeeding generations.
People often marry a spouse at the same level of differentiation as themselves.
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Generation - correct answer ✔✔Links that connect parents and children. These can also be ties to other
people (fictive kin, family friends, etc.) who are also connected to the parents and children.
Generational Process - correct answer ✔✔Connections that people have in terms of:
Traditions
Patterns
Emotions
Values
Ways of Relating
These things become the heritage and determine the lifestyle of each family. Practically every trait of our
personality is from our family.
Generational Process Influence - correct answer ✔✔Generations influence EVERYONE! It influences how
we think, feel, believe, and relate to others. It highlights what is important or unimportant to us. It also
shapes which coping mechanisms we use and how we view the world.
Generations (and more specifically, Generational Processes), dictate how we handle conflict, intimacy,
anger, love, hate, and life in general.
Why is Generational Process Important? - correct answer ✔✔Every aspect of FAMILY LIFE grows out of
and builds upon these processes.
It's influential because some parts are permanent and other parts are difficult to change.
, Generational Processes Principle - correct answer ✔✔Healthy generational processes tend to create
many beautiful and enabling outcomes in family systems.
Unhealthy Generational Processes tend to create serious problems in families. Unhealthy GP's are hard
to identify and fix without help.
For example, when you have dysfunctional ways to handle conflict or intimacy, that's all passed down
through family. If a 9 year old is being sexually abused, they'll probably do it too. This enables the
dysfunctional behavior. No regular 9 year old wants to just molest people, it's logic.
Generational Transmissions - correct answer ✔✔WAYS of behaving, WAYS of feeling, WAYS of relating,
WAYS of defining reality, and WAYS of coping with intimacy or distance. The ways and methodology
taught by our parents is the transmission from one generation to the next.
"It runs in the family!"
Generational Transmission Examples - correct answer ✔✔They can be positive or negative.
Abuse
Addiction
Anger
Parenting Styles
Ways of Giving / Receiving Love
Religion
Optimism / Pessimism
Unhealthy Transmission - correct answer ✔✔Levels of differentiation and parents' unresolved emotional
attachments are reenacted in future relationships and passed along to succeeding generations.
People often marry a spouse at the same level of differentiation as themselves.
