HDFS 2300 EXAM #1 questions with
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Adaptability - correct answer ✔✔The capacity of the system to change its rules and strategies in
response to situational or developmental stress
Boundaries - correct answer ✔✔The concept used to delineate one system or subsystem from other
systems or subsystems, or from the surrounding environment.
Covert rules - correct answer ✔✔Rules that are implicit rather than openly stated but are nonetheless
understood by all family members.
Family - correct answer ✔✔An interdependent group of individuals who have a shared sense of history,
experience some degree of emotional bonding, and devise strategies for meeting the needs of individual
members and the group as a whole.
Family themes - correct answer ✔✔Those elements of the family experience that become organizing
principles for family life, including both conscious and unconscious elements as well as intellectual
(attitudes, beliefs, values) and emotional aspects.
First-order tasks - correct answer ✔✔The tasks that are common to all families regardless of their
particular composition, socioeconomic status, and cultural, ethnic or racial heritage. Examples of first
order tasks include the formation of family themes, the regulation of boundaries, and the management
of the household.
Interdependence - correct answer ✔✔The idea that individuals and subsystems that compose the whole
system are mutually dependent and mutually influenced by one another
Metarules - correct answer ✔✔Rules about rules
Morphogenesis - correct answer ✔✔Those processes operating within systems that foster systemic
growth and development.
, Morphostasis - correct answer ✔✔Those processes operating within systems that resist changes in
existing strategies.
Openness - correct answer ✔✔The ease with which members and information cross the boundary from
one system or subsystem to another.
Organizational complexity - correct answer ✔✔The organizational structure whereby family systems are
comprised of various smaller units or subsystems that together comprise the larger family system
Overt rules - correct answer ✔✔Explicit and openly stated rules.
Rules - correct answer ✔✔Recurring patterns of interaction that define the limits of acceptable and
appropriate behavior in the family.
Second-order tasks - correct answer ✔✔The responsibility that all families have for adapting their
strategies and rules in response to stress, information, and change.
Strategies - correct answer ✔✔The specific policies and procedures the family adopts to accomplish its
tasks. Also the unique patterns of interaction that each family establishes to execute its basic tasks.
Stress - correct answer ✔✔Information transmitted to the system about whether established
interactional patterns require alteration.
Structure - correct answer ✔✔Both the family's composition and its organization. Composition refers to
the family's membership, that is, the persons who make up the family. Organization is the collection of
interdependent relationships and subsystems that operate by established rules of interaction.
Wholeness - correct answer ✔✔The idea that systems must be understood in their entirety, which is
distinctly different than the simple sum of the contributions of the individual parts
Characteristics of the Family System - correct answer ✔✔Wholeness - parts that make up a whole; each
is unique; and can be understood by understanding its interactional rules that structure the system
100% correct solutions!
Adaptability - correct answer ✔✔The capacity of the system to change its rules and strategies in
response to situational or developmental stress
Boundaries - correct answer ✔✔The concept used to delineate one system or subsystem from other
systems or subsystems, or from the surrounding environment.
Covert rules - correct answer ✔✔Rules that are implicit rather than openly stated but are nonetheless
understood by all family members.
Family - correct answer ✔✔An interdependent group of individuals who have a shared sense of history,
experience some degree of emotional bonding, and devise strategies for meeting the needs of individual
members and the group as a whole.
Family themes - correct answer ✔✔Those elements of the family experience that become organizing
principles for family life, including both conscious and unconscious elements as well as intellectual
(attitudes, beliefs, values) and emotional aspects.
First-order tasks - correct answer ✔✔The tasks that are common to all families regardless of their
particular composition, socioeconomic status, and cultural, ethnic or racial heritage. Examples of first
order tasks include the formation of family themes, the regulation of boundaries, and the management
of the household.
Interdependence - correct answer ✔✔The idea that individuals and subsystems that compose the whole
system are mutually dependent and mutually influenced by one another
Metarules - correct answer ✔✔Rules about rules
Morphogenesis - correct answer ✔✔Those processes operating within systems that foster systemic
growth and development.
, Morphostasis - correct answer ✔✔Those processes operating within systems that resist changes in
existing strategies.
Openness - correct answer ✔✔The ease with which members and information cross the boundary from
one system or subsystem to another.
Organizational complexity - correct answer ✔✔The organizational structure whereby family systems are
comprised of various smaller units or subsystems that together comprise the larger family system
Overt rules - correct answer ✔✔Explicit and openly stated rules.
Rules - correct answer ✔✔Recurring patterns of interaction that define the limits of acceptable and
appropriate behavior in the family.
Second-order tasks - correct answer ✔✔The responsibility that all families have for adapting their
strategies and rules in response to stress, information, and change.
Strategies - correct answer ✔✔The specific policies and procedures the family adopts to accomplish its
tasks. Also the unique patterns of interaction that each family establishes to execute its basic tasks.
Stress - correct answer ✔✔Information transmitted to the system about whether established
interactional patterns require alteration.
Structure - correct answer ✔✔Both the family's composition and its organization. Composition refers to
the family's membership, that is, the persons who make up the family. Organization is the collection of
interdependent relationships and subsystems that operate by established rules of interaction.
Wholeness - correct answer ✔✔The idea that systems must be understood in their entirety, which is
distinctly different than the simple sum of the contributions of the individual parts
Characteristics of the Family System - correct answer ✔✔Wholeness - parts that make up a whole; each
is unique; and can be understood by understanding its interactional rules that structure the system
