Exam 1

Question 1

What is the superego?

Answer 1

Right and wrong consciousness, the part of your brain that tells you you “should” or “shouldn’t” do something

Question 2

What is the ego?

Answer 2

Everyday personality

Question 3

What is the id?

Answer 3

Pleasure center

Question 4

What is compensation?

Answer 4

an unconscious process in which a person makes up for his or her perceived shortcomings by strongly developing an asset that will strengthen his/her self-image

Question 5

What is denial?

Answer 5

inability to acknowledge an objectionable impulse, or unacceptable thought, face, behavior, or situation or its effects or importance

Question 6

What is displacement?

Answer 6

The release of feelings and impulses on a safe person or object as a replacement for the person that provoked the feelings

Question 7

What is dissociation?

Answer 7

Experiencing a break in the functions of memory, consciousness, and perceptions. Blocking an anxiety provoking event from the conscious mind.

Question 8

What is identification?

Answer 8

An attempt to increase self-worth by acquiring certain attributes and characteristics of an individual one admires

Question 9

What is intellectualization?

Answer 9

Expresses logic, reasoning, and analysis as a method to avoid all emotions

Question 10

What is introjection?

Answer 10

integrating the beliefs and values of another into one’s own identity

Question 11

What is isolation of affect?

Answer 11

separating a thought or memory from the feeling tone or emotion associated with it

Question 12

What is passive aggressive?

Answer 12

Indirectly expressing aggression, or resistance towards others

Question 13

What is projection?

Answer 13

Attributes one’s own unacceptable feelings or impulses to another person

Question 14

What is rationalization?

Answer 14

Attempting to make excuses to justify feelings or behaviors

Question 15

What is reaction formation?

Answer 15

Preventing unacceptable or undesirable thoughts or behaviors from being expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors

Question 16

What is regression?

Answer 16

Responding to stress by retreating to an earlier level of development

Question 17

What is repression?

Answer 17

Involuntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences from one’s awareness

Question 18

What is splitting?

Answer 18

View others or situations as either all god or all bad and cannot incorporate mixed feelings

Question 19

What is sublimation?

Answer 19

Rechanneling of drives or impulses (sex or aggression) that are unacceptable into constructive activities

Question 20

What is suppression?

Answer 20

The voluntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences from one’s awareness

Question 21

What is undoing?

Answer 21

Symbolically negating an experience through a behavior or action

Question 22

What is Part I of the ABCX framework?

Answer 22

Deals with factors determining the crisis: 4 parts - ABCX

Question 23

What is A?

Answer 23

the stressor event and interacts with B

Question 24

What is B?

Answer 24

A interacts with the family’s resources or strengths, and this interacts with C

Question 25

What is C?

Answer 25

C is the definition or meaning that the family attributes to the event. Very important on whether the event produces a crisis.

Question 26

What is Part II?

Answer 26

The adjustment that follows a crisis and involves a period of disorganization, recovery, and reorganization

Question 27

What happens with disorganization?

Answer 27

roles and patterns of the family change

Question 28

What happens with the period of recovery?

Answer 28

learns new resources/gets additional resources to get back to level or functioning

Question 29

What happens with the period of reorganization?

Answer 29

New level of functioning, may realize thy survived a difficult time and have new skills, abilities, and confidence

Question 30

What are characteristics of a crisis-prone families?

Answer 30

Consistently perceive and define events and their situation as threatening & overwhelming, tend to perceive stressor events as crises, more vulnerable to crises because of limited resources and coping abilities, fail to learn from past crises

Question 31

What are characteristics of functional families?

Answer 31

Able to see events as understandable and manageable, and time limited. Learn from past crises and use recently formed coping behaviors to deal with the situation, learn to enlarge their support network and resources

Question 32

What is part of the family subsystem?

Answer 32

Individual members, dyads, triads, parental subsystem, and sibling subsystem

Question 33

What is the suprasystem?

Answer 33

larger networks that includes extended family, school, church, community organizations

Question 34

What is the first phase of the family life cycle?

Answer 34

Launching the single young adult

Question 35

What is the second phase of the FLC?

Answer 35

joining families through couple formation

Question 36

What is the third phase of the FLC?

Answer 36

Becoming parents and caring for young children

Question 37

What is the fourth phase of the FLC?

Answer 37

parenting adolescents

Question 38

What is the fifth phase of the FLC?

Answer 38

launching children and moving on

Question 39

What is the sixth phase of the FLC?

Answer 39

experiencing later life

Question 40

What are transitions during the family life cycle?

Answer 40

birth of a child, employment changes, retirement

Question 41

What are interruptions during the family life cycle?

Answer 41

serious illness, death, divorce

Question 42

What is boundary function?

Answer 42

Clear individual boundaries Clear generational boundaries Clear family boundaries

Question 43

What is communication function?

Answer 43

Straight, clear messages No manipulation Safe expression of positive and negative feelings

Question 44

What is emotional-supportive function?

Answer 44

mutual positive regard deals with conflict uses resources for all family members allows growth for all family members

Question 45

What is socialization function?

Answer 45

Children growing and developing in a health pattern Mutual negotiation of roles by age and ability Parents feeling good about parenting Spouses happy with each other's role behavior

Question 46

What are healthy family qualities?

Answer 46

``` Commitment to the family Demonstrates appreciation to family members Communication Time spent together Spiritual wellness Ability to cope with stress ```