CHAPTER 4 FAMILY THERAPY| NEWEST EXAM UPDATE 2025/2026|
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
cybernetics -CORRECT ANSWER The study of feedback mechanisms in self-
regulating systems, such as levels, orders of change, feedback loops. These
mechanisms focus on family rules, negative and positive feedback, and
sequences of family interactions.
feedback loop -CORRECT ANSWER allows the receiver to communicate
with the sender and thereby informs the sender whether the message was
received and decoded properly
negative feedback -CORRECT ANSWER indicates how far off the mark a
system is straying and the corrections needed to get it back on course. vital error
correcting information that gives order and self control to automatic machines,
to the body and the brain, and to people in their daily lives.
positive feedback -CORRECT ANSWER information that confirms and
reinforces the direction a system is taking
circular causality -CORRECT ANSWER the idea that actions are related
through a series of recursive loops or repeating cycles
Norbert Wiener The Human Use of Human Beings 1950 -CORRECT
ANSWER In the 1948 book Cybernetics this person laid much of the
groundwork for modern cognitive psychology by a careful study of the structure
and function of information-processing systems and feedback loops.
Cybernetics with families -CORRECT ANSWER 1) family rules: govern the
range of behavior a family system can tolerate
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
cybernetics -CORRECT ANSWER The study of feedback mechanisms in self-
regulating systems, such as levels, orders of change, feedback loops. These
mechanisms focus on family rules, negative and positive feedback, and
sequences of family interactions.
feedback loop -CORRECT ANSWER allows the receiver to communicate
with the sender and thereby informs the sender whether the message was
received and decoded properly
negative feedback -CORRECT ANSWER indicates how far off the mark a
system is straying and the corrections needed to get it back on course. vital error
correcting information that gives order and self control to automatic machines,
to the body and the brain, and to people in their daily lives.
positive feedback -CORRECT ANSWER information that confirms and
reinforces the direction a system is taking
circular causality -CORRECT ANSWER the idea that actions are related
through a series of recursive loops or repeating cycles
Norbert Wiener The Human Use of Human Beings 1950 -CORRECT
ANSWER In the 1948 book Cybernetics this person laid much of the
groundwork for modern cognitive psychology by a careful study of the structure
and function of information-processing systems and feedback loops.
Cybernetics with families -CORRECT ANSWER 1) family rules: govern the
range of behavior a family system can tolerate
