HDFS 2280 Exam 1 UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
four basic ecological systems - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Microsystems
Mesosystems
Exosystems
Macrosystems
Microsystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- developmental context nearest to the individual
(influences include family of origin, schools, community etc.)
Mesosystems - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- focuses on interaction between individual and
various elements
Exosystems - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- societal policies supportive of family and
governmental laws that influence the individual and his/her environment
Macrosystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- cultural beliefs and values influencing the
individual
Chronosystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Issues/contexts changing over time
Assumptions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -families and the environment are interdependent
and must be viewed as a sytem
-families are semi-open, goal directed, dynamic, and adaptive systems
Assumptions cont. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -families interact with multiple environments
-intereaction between families and enviroments are guided by physical/biological rules of
nature and human derived rules
- family decisions have an impact on all levels of systems
, Concepts - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -environment (natural, human-built, social-cultural)
-adaptaion
-needs-values
-management
-decision making
Assumptions of systems theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -the whole is greater than the
sum of the parts
-locus of pathology (location of problem) is not within a person but is a system dysfuntion
-rules result from redundancy principle
Open families - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- consensus, flexibility, love, respect
Assumptions cont - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -feedback loops guide behavior
-pathological communication causes relationship problems
-all family members take on roles
-family types are based on the rigidity of the family boundaries
random families - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- no boundaries, disengaged
closed families - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- over involved, strict/rigid, enmeshed
Additional concepts - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- mutuality, pseudomutuality, disengaged,
enmeshed
Homeostasis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- balanced internal environment of the body and
automatic tendency of the body to maintainan internal "steady state". When a family system
tries to maintain internal stability and to resist changes
Family Life Cycle Stage 1 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- establishment phase- courtship and
marriage (married stage)
Questions and CORRECT Answers
four basic ecological systems - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Microsystems
Mesosystems
Exosystems
Macrosystems
Microsystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- developmental context nearest to the individual
(influences include family of origin, schools, community etc.)
Mesosystems - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- focuses on interaction between individual and
various elements
Exosystems - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- societal policies supportive of family and
governmental laws that influence the individual and his/her environment
Macrosystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- cultural beliefs and values influencing the
individual
Chronosystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Issues/contexts changing over time
Assumptions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -families and the environment are interdependent
and must be viewed as a sytem
-families are semi-open, goal directed, dynamic, and adaptive systems
Assumptions cont. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -families interact with multiple environments
-intereaction between families and enviroments are guided by physical/biological rules of
nature and human derived rules
- family decisions have an impact on all levels of systems
, Concepts - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -environment (natural, human-built, social-cultural)
-adaptaion
-needs-values
-management
-decision making
Assumptions of systems theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -the whole is greater than the
sum of the parts
-locus of pathology (location of problem) is not within a person but is a system dysfuntion
-rules result from redundancy principle
Open families - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- consensus, flexibility, love, respect
Assumptions cont - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -feedback loops guide behavior
-pathological communication causes relationship problems
-all family members take on roles
-family types are based on the rigidity of the family boundaries
random families - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- no boundaries, disengaged
closed families - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- over involved, strict/rigid, enmeshed
Additional concepts - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- mutuality, pseudomutuality, disengaged,
enmeshed
Homeostasis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- balanced internal environment of the body and
automatic tendency of the body to maintainan internal "steady state". When a family system
tries to maintain internal stability and to resist changes
Family Life Cycle Stage 1 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- establishment phase- courtship and
marriage (married stage)
