MFT exam questions (terms) & answers 2023/2024
Spectatoring - ANSWER-"From Masters & Johnson
- When sexual dysfunction results from preoccupation with your performance"
Continuous Reinforcement Schedule - ANSWER-Every CORRECT response is reinforced
Robber's Cave Study - ANSWER-showed t...
- When sexual dysfunction results from preoccupation with your performance"
Continuous Reinforcement Schedule - ANSWER-Every CORRECT response is reinforced
Robber's Cave Study - ANSWER-showed that two hostile groups could b emade to get along well and
even be friends if they had a superordinate goal to work together for
Adler's biggest theory - ANSWER-Influence of birth order on core personality (first borns are most
achievement-oriented)
Vaginismus - ANSWER-female experiencing painful spasms during intercourse
Cybernetics - ANSWER-study of how systems are controlled and how information feedback loops work
Double bind - ANSWER-one person receives contradictory commands from which there is no escape
(MRI)
"Family Rules: Marital Quid Pro Quo" - ANSWER-Jackson's paper on marital relationships - roles that
spouses develop don't just come from gender differences, but as a result of a series of quid pro quos or
mutual exchanges
Marital schism - ANSWER-parents overly focused on their own problems, undercut each other, compete
for children's attention while failing to attend to children's needs
Marital Skew - ANSWER-"One parent dominates the family and the other is dependent;
,children often torn between parents; deficits in addressing kids' needs that dysfunction or schizophrenia
result"
Pseudomutuality - ANSWER-"Lyman Wynne
Systemic pretense of harmony and closeness that masks conflict and blocks intimacy"
Pseudohostility - ANSWER-"Lyman Wynne
Noisy and intense way of masking and distorting both affection and splits"
Rubber Fence Boundary - ANSWER-"Lyman Wynne
Families are seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly impenetrable to information from the outside;
boundaries bind them together in their resistance to separation"
Emotional Divorce - ANSWER-"Murray Bowen
Parents whose relationship is cool and vacillates between overcloseness and over-distance"
Differentiation of Self - ANSWER-Autonomy from one's family and ability to differentiate between one's
thoughts and feelings
Directive to continue with maladaptive and symptomatic behavior - if follow, then admitting they have
control over the symptom; if rebels, they give up the maladaptive behavior"
Cybernetics - definition, components - ANSWER-"Refers to control mechanisms that provide feedback to
the primary system
Cybernetic systems consist of frameworks which function according to the laws of recursiveness,
feedback, and self-correction"
Boundary interface - ANSWER-regions between each subsystem of the family and between the family
and its suprasystem
, Properties of boundaries - ANSWER-permeability, selectivity, and variability
Circular causality - ANSWER-Circular or mutual causality in which two or more people mutually influence
one another in a recursive relationship
Entropy - ANSWER-refers to a system's tendency to break down which, over time, threatens the survival
of the system
Negative entropy - ANSWER-a systemic state that emerges when a system is balanced between openness
and closedness - information is allowed to enter the system and change can occur when appropriate
Equifinality - ANSWER-A system can reach a certain end state from a variety of different sources,
conditions, or means or from different initial states
Equipotentiality - ANSWER-Different end states can occur from the same initial conditions
Feedback loops - ANSWER-"core of cybernetics
Self-correcting mechanisms by which families attempt to adjust deviations from the established patterns
and maintain its organizational integrity
Feedback occurs from outside the system while input occurs from inside the system"
Negative or "attenuating" feedback loops - ANSWER-Maintain stability or homeostasis (thermostat) -
parents' behavior to keep children in line
Positive or "amplifying" feedback loops - ANSWER-Attempt to change the system from it's steady state to
a new steady state or balance - reaction results in increase of the behavior
Isomorphism - ANSWER-Two or more systems or subsystems exhibit similar or parallel structures -
structures or patterns are repeated (therapist who sees a family and they reject his suggestions becomes
rejecting of his supervisor's suggestions)
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