HDFS 2300 - Exam 1 correctly answered
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Our definitions and ideas of family come from what four perceptions according to Peters? - correct
answer ✔✔Self
Other (Public)
History and Folklore
Law and Policy
Family when viewed as a system: - correct answer ✔✔An interdependent group of individuals who:
(1) have a shared sense of history
(2) experience some degree of emotional bonding
(3) devise strategies for meeting the needs of individual family members and the group as a whole.
(4) Are autonomous and dependent
Two dimensions of the family system - correct answer ✔✔Structure:
Task: First & Second Order
Family - correct answer ✔✔Structurally complex
Comprised of multiple subsystems
Has common purposes and tasks
Devises strategies for the execution of these tasks
System - correct answer ✔✔A set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole
Subsystem - correct answer ✔✔A system within the system (ex. Sibling-sibling, parent-parent, parent-
child)
Environment - correct answer ✔✔What surrounds the system.
,Wholeness - correct answer ✔✔The family system is made up of a group of individuals who together
form a complex and unitary whole.
Organizational Complexity - correct answer ✔✔Refers to the fact that family systems are comprised of
various smaller units or subsystems that together compose the larger family systems.
- When viewing the family view all portions of it.
- Example: parents, children, spouses.
Interdependence - correct answer ✔✔Individuals and subsystems that comprise the whole system are
mutually dependent and mutually influenced by one another.
- Example: When one family member does something everyone gets affected.
Adaptive Self-Regulation - correct answer ✔✔Homeostasis
Inputs and outputs (feedbacks)
Feedback - correct answer ✔✔Homeostasis mechanism
Anything that deviates and sends off warning signals
Deviation Amplifying Feedback Loop - correct answer ✔✔- Feedback that requires the family system to
change; they adapt to the new beginning.
- Example: child needs to stay out until 11 for an after school activity and the parents take turns staying
awake to pick them up.
Deviation Dampening Feedback Loop - correct answer ✔✔- Feedback that requires the system to change
but they only change to try to regain the previous situation (not to adapt to the new one)
- Example: child needs to stay out until 11 for an after school activity, family says they can't do that
because it's too late.
Equifinality - correct answer ✔✔Different beginnings can have similar outcomes.
, Equipotentiality - correct answer ✔✔One beginning can have multiple outcomes.
Equilibrium - correct answer ✔✔Refers to the balancing act that families must perform.
Reductionism - correct answer ✔✔Perspective takes the view that one can successfully focus on the
small parts of a family and figure out what that family will do in a variety of situations.
Correlation - correct answer ✔✔Collecting two sets of data and seeing if they relate, but you can't
assume that because they relate there's a causation between the two.
Causation - correct answer ✔✔The cause of something typically found through data.
Morphostasis - correct answer ✔✔Tendency of a family system to maintain order and sameness.
Example: How your family might continue to do certain traditions (for example, always open presents on
Christmas Eve or have chocolate cake on birthdays or sit at same spots at the dinner table).
Morphogensis - correct answer ✔✔Tendency of a family system to need to adapt and change to new
circumstances and ever-changing development of family members
Example: how your family has changed over time in response to you growing older, for example, the
rules you have now are different than the ones you had when you were five - you can cross the street by
yourself, you make your own decisions,
Why is the study of family life important? - correct answer ✔✔We are naturally curious as humans and
want to form theories to have a framework.
Studying family life gives us a perspective on families that are different from us.
Family Processes - correct answer ✔✔The strategies used by family members to maximize family goals.
Family Processes Benefits - correct answer ✔✔Expectations, desires and goals of a family might have
more power to direct how family resources are distributed and allocated.
What are the two main themes of families? - correct answer ✔✔Theory of External Control
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Our definitions and ideas of family come from what four perceptions according to Peters? - correct
answer ✔✔Self
Other (Public)
History and Folklore
Law and Policy
Family when viewed as a system: - correct answer ✔✔An interdependent group of individuals who:
(1) have a shared sense of history
(2) experience some degree of emotional bonding
(3) devise strategies for meeting the needs of individual family members and the group as a whole.
(4) Are autonomous and dependent
Two dimensions of the family system - correct answer ✔✔Structure:
Task: First & Second Order
Family - correct answer ✔✔Structurally complex
Comprised of multiple subsystems
Has common purposes and tasks
Devises strategies for the execution of these tasks
System - correct answer ✔✔A set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole
Subsystem - correct answer ✔✔A system within the system (ex. Sibling-sibling, parent-parent, parent-
child)
Environment - correct answer ✔✔What surrounds the system.
,Wholeness - correct answer ✔✔The family system is made up of a group of individuals who together
form a complex and unitary whole.
Organizational Complexity - correct answer ✔✔Refers to the fact that family systems are comprised of
various smaller units or subsystems that together compose the larger family systems.
- When viewing the family view all portions of it.
- Example: parents, children, spouses.
Interdependence - correct answer ✔✔Individuals and subsystems that comprise the whole system are
mutually dependent and mutually influenced by one another.
- Example: When one family member does something everyone gets affected.
Adaptive Self-Regulation - correct answer ✔✔Homeostasis
Inputs and outputs (feedbacks)
Feedback - correct answer ✔✔Homeostasis mechanism
Anything that deviates and sends off warning signals
Deviation Amplifying Feedback Loop - correct answer ✔✔- Feedback that requires the family system to
change; they adapt to the new beginning.
- Example: child needs to stay out until 11 for an after school activity and the parents take turns staying
awake to pick them up.
Deviation Dampening Feedback Loop - correct answer ✔✔- Feedback that requires the system to change
but they only change to try to regain the previous situation (not to adapt to the new one)
- Example: child needs to stay out until 11 for an after school activity, family says they can't do that
because it's too late.
Equifinality - correct answer ✔✔Different beginnings can have similar outcomes.
, Equipotentiality - correct answer ✔✔One beginning can have multiple outcomes.
Equilibrium - correct answer ✔✔Refers to the balancing act that families must perform.
Reductionism - correct answer ✔✔Perspective takes the view that one can successfully focus on the
small parts of a family and figure out what that family will do in a variety of situations.
Correlation - correct answer ✔✔Collecting two sets of data and seeing if they relate, but you can't
assume that because they relate there's a causation between the two.
Causation - correct answer ✔✔The cause of something typically found through data.
Morphostasis - correct answer ✔✔Tendency of a family system to maintain order and sameness.
Example: How your family might continue to do certain traditions (for example, always open presents on
Christmas Eve or have chocolate cake on birthdays or sit at same spots at the dinner table).
Morphogensis - correct answer ✔✔Tendency of a family system to need to adapt and change to new
circumstances and ever-changing development of family members
Example: how your family has changed over time in response to you growing older, for example, the
rules you have now are different than the ones you had when you were five - you can cross the street by
yourself, you make your own decisions,
Why is the study of family life important? - correct answer ✔✔We are naturally curious as humans and
want to form theories to have a framework.
Studying family life gives us a perspective on families that are different from us.
Family Processes - correct answer ✔✔The strategies used by family members to maximize family goals.
Family Processes Benefits - correct answer ✔✔Expectations, desires and goals of a family might have
more power to direct how family resources are distributed and allocated.
What are the two main themes of families? - correct answer ✔✔Theory of External Control
