CFT 150 Exam 1 Study Guide Questions With 100% Correct Answers | Graded A+ | 2026

CFT 150 Exam 1 Study Guide Questions With 100% Correct Answers | Graded A+ | 2026 what are the important terms in personal growth - answer-behavior psychology sociology MFT/CFT what is behavior? - answer-- overt response or activity by organism - able to see what you're actually doing - observable act you have to do and get specific what is psychology? - answer-science that studies behavior and physiological and mental processes that underlie it What is sociology? - answer-Study of development, structure, and functioning of human society MFT/CFT - answer-Mental health discipline that views individuals and problems as there interactional processes best understood within the marriage, family, and social contexts Roots of happiness: very important - answer-love marriage relationship satisfaction work genetics and personality not very important roots of happiness - answer-moneyage parenthood intelligence and attractiveness somewhat important roots of happiness - answer-health social activity religion Three critical components to change - answer-ready, willingness, able psychodynamic perspective - answer-freud - driven by relentless desires - do things even if they are bad for us because of these intrinsic desires control mastery theory - answer-weiss and sampson - if you repeat it enough times you will have mastery - when you learn something really early on in life, will be more difficult to change - don't often examine/modify long standing behaviors or beliefs - try to avoid traumatization attachment and object relations - answer-- Early relationships and interactions help lay the foundation for our blueprint of the world Expectations: marriage always end in divorce behavioral perspective - answer-- behavior that is rewarded is reinforced weighing reward vs consequences prochaska and diclemente - different stages of changes: - answer-people don't change because:they can't they don't want to they don't know what to change a combination of all these things ambivalence to change: - answer-approach-approach avoidance-avoidance approach-avoidance double approach-avoidance Approach-approach - answer-choose between two similarly attractive choices avoidance-avoidance - answer-having to choose between two evils approach - avoidance - answer-both attracted to and repelled by the same choice double approach - avoidance - answer-torn between two alternative decisional balance - answer-ability to achieve necessary balance in weighing potential choices what do you need to grow? - answer-- investigations of attempted solutions - definition of concrete change to be achieved - formulation and implementation of plan freud's iceberg - answer-conscious preconscious unconscious Conscious - answer-whatever is on is aware of at a particular point in timepreconscious - answer-material just beneath the surface of awareness the can be easily retrieved unconscious - answer-thought, memories and desires that are all well below the surface of the conscious awareness but that nonetheless exert great influence on one's behavior What is Stevens view of awareness? - answer-awareness of the outside world, inside world, and fantasy activity awareness of the outside world? a) Actual sensory contact with objects and events in present What's happening around us b) Actual sensory contact with inner events of the present Example: my skin itches, my stomach feels nervous c) Mental activity beyond present awareness of ongoing experience Daydreaming in class d) none of the above - answer-a) Actual sensory contact with objects and events in present What's happening around us awareness of the inside world? a) Actual sensory contact with objects and events in present What's happening around us b) Actual sensory contact with inner events of the present Example: my skin itches, my stomach feels nervousc) Mental activity beyond present awareness of ongoing experience Daydreaming in class d) none of the above - answer-b) Actual sensory contact with inner events of the present Example: my skin itches, my stomach feels nervous awareness of the fantasy activity?