MFT Exam Study Guide with Complete
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Classical Conditioning: - Answer-A learning paradigm studied and practiced in a laboratory or other
controlled environment in which a stimulus called the unconditioned stimulus (US) which naturally elicits
an unconditioned response (UCR), is paired w...
For example, a boss who is an oldest child may work unusually well with a first assistant who is a
youngest child. Youngest children may like to be in charge, but their leadership style typically differs from
an oldest's style. (From the Bowen Center website)
Cognitive Behavior Family Therapy (CBT): - Answer✔✔-Therapies based on both behavioral techniques,
which grew out of scientific, laboratory experiments, and on the cognitive therapy models. People learn
to modify behaviors both by altering the reinforcement contingencies and/or changing the cognitions
that influence their behaviors and interactions.
Cognitive Maps: - Answer✔✔-Mental models by which incoming information is perceived, understood,
transformed, and stored, together with a corresponding repertoire of behavioral options. Maps are
based on the integration of experiences. Each part of the cognitive map - i.e., input and output - forms
the individual's internal representation of reality. Cognitive maps shape actions and communication.
They may be flexible, able to change and expand cumulatively with new information and experiences, or
they may be rigid and limiting. Maps have both language and spatial aspects with a private vocabulary
and imagery that determines how incoming communication is interpreted.
Collaborative Language Family Therapy: - Answer✔✔-From Goolishian and Anderson, a model of family
therapy based on the idea that problems are maintained in the family's language and may be resolved by
changes in their use of language. The therapist asks questions from a not knowing stance, designed to
draw out the client's own views of the problem. The problem is "dissolved" as new meanings and actions
evolve.
Communication Theory: - Answer✔✔-Originated by the MRI group, the study of the process by which
verbal and non-verbal information is exchanged within a relationship. Communication can be analogic
which has little structure, but is rich in content, or digital which is verbal communication perceived and
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