COUC 601 Practice Test Questions with
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Double Blind Theory
The View that an individual who receives important contradictory injections as different
levels of abstraction about which he or she is unable to comment or escape in in a no-win,
conflict-producing situation
Who developed Double blind Theory
Gregory Bateson
Basics of double blind Theory
Theory of schizophrenia as a relationship phenomenon rather than an intrapsychic disorder.
drawling attention to the family context that gave symptoms meaning.
its effort to look beyond the symptomatic person is family transactions was ground breaking
in directing researchers to examine what occurs in the exchange of information and the
process of relationships between persons as in a family.
First order cybernetics
A view from outside the system of the feedback loops and homeostatic mechanisms that
transpire within a system.
First order cybernetics continue
Means of understanding the general principles of how systems of all kinds are self-regulated
and thus maintain their stability
Continue first order cybernetics
, attention was directed towards structure, patterns of organization and control through
feedback cycles.
Second order cybernetics
A view of an observing system in which the therapist, rather than attempting to describe the
system by being an outside observer, is part of what is being observed and treated.
Second order cybernetics continue
Lynn Hoffman and postmodern family therapists.
there can not be no outside independent observer of a system, since anyone attempting to
observe and change a system is by definition a participant who both influences and in turn is
influenced by that system
Second order cybernetics and first order cybernetics differ
First order cybernetics paradigm conceives of two separate systems, the therapist system and
the problem-client family system. therapist is the external observer who attempts to effect
changes by means of interventions from the outside.
Second order cybernetics is one big system of family and therapist who work together to find
meaning and in the process "re-Author" lives and relationships.
A first order view in family therapy would assume that is is possible to influence another
person or family by using this or that technique: I program you; I teach you; I instruct you.
Second order view would mean that therapists include themselves as part of what must
change / they do not stand outside.
Verified Correct Answers
Double Blind Theory
The View that an individual who receives important contradictory injections as different
levels of abstraction about which he or she is unable to comment or escape in in a no-win,
conflict-producing situation
Who developed Double blind Theory
Gregory Bateson
Basics of double blind Theory
Theory of schizophrenia as a relationship phenomenon rather than an intrapsychic disorder.
drawling attention to the family context that gave symptoms meaning.
its effort to look beyond the symptomatic person is family transactions was ground breaking
in directing researchers to examine what occurs in the exchange of information and the
process of relationships between persons as in a family.
First order cybernetics
A view from outside the system of the feedback loops and homeostatic mechanisms that
transpire within a system.
First order cybernetics continue
Means of understanding the general principles of how systems of all kinds are self-regulated
and thus maintain their stability
Continue first order cybernetics
, attention was directed towards structure, patterns of organization and control through
feedback cycles.
Second order cybernetics
A view of an observing system in which the therapist, rather than attempting to describe the
system by being an outside observer, is part of what is being observed and treated.
Second order cybernetics continue
Lynn Hoffman and postmodern family therapists.
there can not be no outside independent observer of a system, since anyone attempting to
observe and change a system is by definition a participant who both influences and in turn is
influenced by that system
Second order cybernetics and first order cybernetics differ
First order cybernetics paradigm conceives of two separate systems, the therapist system and
the problem-client family system. therapist is the external observer who attempts to effect
changes by means of interventions from the outside.
Second order cybernetics is one big system of family and therapist who work together to find
meaning and in the process "re-Author" lives and relationships.
A first order view in family therapy would assume that is is possible to influence another
person or family by using this or that technique: I program you; I teach you; I instruct you.
Second order view would mean that therapists include themselves as part of what must
change / they do not stand outside.
