Deck 7: The Core of Family Life: Paradigms, Themes, and Ideologies

Question 1

Most families have a clear awareness of their ideological orientation.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Both physical and emotional boundaries in a system remain static over time.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Level III processes are concrete and specific behaviors.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Level III processes are highly abstract and reflect beliefs about how the world works for a given family.

Question 5

Families actively construct their paradigms during formative periods in relationships.

Question 6

Families actively construct their paradigms during the uncomplicated periods between life transitions.

Question 7

The first paradigms of a new family are usually borrowed or invented.

Question 8

Families rarely call established paradigms into question during times of crisis.

Question 9

During time of crisis is one of the times that families examine or explore their family paradigms.

Question 10

A family paradigm represents a commitment to certain priorities as families struggle to overcome a crisis.

Question 11

Belief systems:

A) guide our actions
B) trigger emotional responses
C) inform decisions

Question 12

Which of the following is the best example of a family ideology?

A) a family with two dimes
B) a family goal that all the children to graduate from college
C) a rule that work comes before play
D) a basic belief that the social environment is friendly

Question 13

Which of the following best defines a family ideology?

A) the implicit and explicit rules the family use to regulate family interaction
B) shared assumptions about life that influence how the family orders their life and how they perceive and interpret life's experiences
C) the family managerial system, including their values, goals and standards
D) a didactic diagnostic device for family assessment
E) B & C

Question 14

Metacommunication is:

A) dialogue about meaningful issues in the relationship
B) dialogue about communication in the relationship
C) dialogue about perceptions of others
D) none of the above

Question 15

Which of the following is an example of a metarule?

A) "The rules can only be changed during the family council."
B) "The rule is, homework before TV."
C) "No one can talk about sports at the dinner table."
D) "Bob gets to stay up later because he is older."

Question 16

Which type of family ideology would have the motto: "Nothing is constant in life but change?"

A) random
B) open
C) closed
D) synchronous

Question 17

Which of the following is the best statement regarding family ideologies

A) Family ideologies are indistinguishable from generational processes and the emotional aspects of family interaction
B) They are the intellectual aspect of family systems that are reflected in their beliefs, ideals, symbols or aspirations.
C) They are all relatively concrete and specific
D) Families develop them consciously

Question 18

David Reiss developed concepts about how a family constructs reality. With regard to family paradigms (his term for ideologies) he says:

A) Multiple levels of abstraction are a means to explore how families organize their beliefs.
B) A family paradigm is the meta-level interaction that allows families to think about what they are doing.
C) A family paradigm is a shared, deeply felt, enduring meaning about themselves and the world that families create.
D) A family paradigm is the specific and concrete behaviors that makes up the everyday interaction in the family

Question 19

Family paradigms:

A) Are a conscious process that families use on a daily basis to organize life
B) Are a process that families use only during times of stress and crisis
C) Are an unconscious process that families use to manage and give meaning to their life
D) B & C

Question 20

During formative periods in a relationship couples have the task of constructing paradigms. They do this by:

A) Borrowing paradigms from their family of orientation
B) Deliberately choosing paradigms that appeal to them
C) Adopting paradigms from the dominant culture
D) All of the above

Question 21

Paradigms are most conscious for families during:

A) Formative periods of time when relationships are being created
B) During uncomplicated periods of stability between transitions in relationships
C) During formative periods and stages
D) They are never conscious for families

Question 22

Which of the following is the best metaphor for most family's awareness of their paradigms?

A) A cook book
B) A locked diary
C) An iceberg
D) A snowy field

Question 23

Which is the best analogy for family ideologies?

A) A day planner or calendar
B) The North Star
C) A cookie cutter
D) All are appropriate analogies for family ideologies.

Question 24

During a family crisis or period of disorganization:

A) Families don't question their guiding beliefs and ways of thinking
B) The longer the family is stressed, the more they evaluate established ideologies
C) They immediately work to construct new ways of organizing their family ideologies
D) Families muddle through since their ideologies are largely unconscious

Question 25

A random family might live by which of the following axioms?

A) "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
B) "There is nothing new under the sun."
C) "Slow and steady wins the race."
D) "The more things change, the more they stay the same."

Question 26

The closed family would live by which of the following axioms?

A) "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
B) "There is nothing new under the sun."
C) "Slow and steady wins the race."
D) "The more things change, the more they stay the same."

Question 27

The closed family paradigm leads them to adopt goals that emphasize:

A) harmonious agreement
B) stability and well-defined, clear boundaries
C) dialogue, patience, and flexibility
D) individuality, freedom and little restraint

Question 28

The synchronous family paradigm leads them to adopt goals that emphasize:

A) harmonious agreement
B) stability and well-defined, clear boundaries
C) dialogue, patience, and flexibility
D) individuality, freedom and little restraint

Question 29

The open family paradigm leads them to adopt goals that emphasize:

A) harmonious agreement
B) stability and well-defined, clear boundaries
C) dialogue, patience, and flexibility
D) individuality, freedom and little restraint

Question 30

When families are under stress their natural ideological tendencies:

A) Are exaggerated
B) Remain the same
C) Become increasingly uniform
D) Become more understated

Question 31

When a random family is confronted with a family crisis they are going to use strategies that focus on:

A) harmonious agreement
B) stability and well-defined, clear boundaries
C) dialogue, patience, and flexibility
D) individuality, freedom and little restraint

Question 32

Examining ideologies as a way that family organizes their world helps us to understand:

A) That there is a best type of family
B) There is great flexibility in the way families can be successful
C) That the closed family ideology is going to allow families to be most successful
D) That most families need therapy to help them discover their ideologies

Question 33

Limiting the amount and type of media exposure for children in a family would be most common is a:

A) Open family
B) Closed family
C) Synchronous family
D) Random family

Question 34

According to The Exaggeration Principle, during times of stress a family has a tendency to exaggerate its own special character. This means that a closed family would seek extremes of which traits?

A) Novelty, creativity and individuality
B) Continuity, stability and consistency
C) Flexibility, collaborativity, and adaptability
D) None of the above is correct

Question 35

Families respond to stress and crisis in fairly predictable ways. Match the family stress management technique to the type of family that would be most likely to use it.
-Reliance on tradition and authority

A) Open family
B) Closed family
C) Synchronous family
D) Random family

Question 36

Families respond to stress and crisis in fairly predictable ways. Match the family stress management technique to the type of family that would be most likely to use it.
-Increased independence leads to creative solutions

A) Open family
B) Closed family
C) Synchronous family
D) Random family

Question 37

Families respond to stress and crisis in fairly predictable ways. Match the family stress management technique to the type of family that would be most likely to use it.
-They find something new

A) Open family
B) Closed family
C) Synchronous family
D) Random family

Question 38

Families respond to stress and crisis in fairly predictable ways. Match the family stress management technique to the type of family that would be most likely to use it.
-They work it through

A) Open family
B) Closed family
C) Synchronous family
D) Random family

Question 39

Families respond to stress and crisis in fairly predictable ways. Match the family stress management technique to the type of family that would be most likely to use it.
-Places emphasis on loyalty

A) Open family
B) Closed family
C) Synchronous family
D) Random family

Question 40

Families respond to stress and crisis in fairly predictable ways. Match the family stress management technique to the type of family that would be most likely to use it.
-Maintains consistency

A) Open family
B) Closed family
C) Synchronous family
D) Random family

Question 41

Families respond to stress and crisis in fairly predictable ways. Match the family stress management technique to the type of family that would be most likely to use it.
-Solutions require unity

A) Open family
B) Closed family
C) Synchronous family
D) Random family

Question 42

Families respond to stress and crisis in fairly predictable ways. Match the family stress management technique to the type of family that would be most likely to use it.
-Seeks consensual solutions

A) Open family
B) Closed family
C) Synchronous family
D) Random family

Question 43

Match each type of family ideology with the examples given.
-This family uses dinnertime as an experience where sharing information
Is valued.

A) Open Family
B) Random Family
C) Closed Family
D) Synchronous Family

Question 44

Match each type of family ideology with the examples given.
-This family isn't concerned with issues of social rationality

A) Open Family
B) Random Family
C) Closed Family
D) Synchronous Family

Question 45

Match each type of family ideology with the examples given.
-Their motto is 'Tranquillity, Harmony and Unity."

A) Open Family
B) Random Family
C) Closed Family
D) Synchronous Family

Question 46

Match each type of family ideology with the examples given.
-They plan vacations during "New Business" during monthly family council
Meetings.

A) Open Family
B) Random Family
C) Closed Family
D) Synchronous Family

Question 47

Match each type of family ideology with the examples given.
-They decided at the last minute to fly to Lake Tahoe for Christmas.

A) Open Family
B) Random Family
C) Closed Family
D) Synchronous Family

Question 48

Define and discuss meta-communication? Provide an example.

Question 49

Compare the closed family ideology and the random family ideology. Provide at least three points of comparison.

Question 50

What are family ideologies? What kind of ideologies might be reflected in an open family?

Question 51

The Smith's have just gotten married. Discuss three places that their new family might get ideas/input for ideologies.

Question 52

A closed family has experienced a serious stressor. How is this family likely to cope with the stressor?