COUC 601 Midterm Exam UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Differentiation of Self - CORRECT ANSWER Capacity to think and reflect rather than respond
emotionally. The ability to be flexible and act wisely in the face of anxiety.
Undifferentiated People - CORRECT ANSWER Extremely reactive to the people and anxiety
around them.
Bowen's Central Ideas - CORRECT ANSWER Differentiation of self
Triangulation
Fusion
Bowen Perspective on Symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER The Result of Stress
Circular Causality - CORRECT ANSWER The view that causality is nonlinear, occurring
instead within a relationship context and through a network of interacting loops; any cause is thus
seen as an effect of a prior cause, as in the interactions within families.
cybernetics - CORRECT ANSWER The study of methods of feedback control within a system,
especially the flow of information through feedback loops.
Science of feedback; how information can help self-regulate a system.
Double-bind concept - CORRECT ANSWER Conflict created when an individual receives
contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction and cannot leave the situation or relieve the
conflict or tension.
Constructivism - CORRECT ANSWER Relativistic point of view that emphasizes the
subjective construction of reality. Implies that what we see in families may be based as much on our
perceptions as on what's actually going on.
, Goal of Bowenian Therapy - CORRECT ANSWER Insight
Bowenian Assessments - CORRECT ANSWER Genograms
Bowenian Techniques - CORRECT ANSWER Process Questions
Relationship Experiments
First Order Change - CORRECT ANSWER When only a specific behaviour within a system
changes. Superficial change that is temporary.
Second Order Change - CORRECT ANSWER When the rules of the system change.
Sustained change in the organization of structure of the system.
Linear Causality - CORRECT ANSWER View that nonreciprocal relationships exists between
events in a sequence, so that one event causes the next event, not vice versa.
Psychopathology - CORRECT ANSWER A disease concept derived from medicine, referring to
the origins of abnormal behaviour.
Strategic Therapy - CORRECT ANSWER Therapeutic approach in which the therapist
develops a specific plan or strategies and designs interventions aimed at solving the presenting
problem.
Structural Therapy - CORRECT ANSWER Therapeutic approach directed at changing or
realigning the family organization or structure in order to alter dysfunctional transactions and clarify
boundary systems
Feedback Loops - CORRECT ANSWER Circular mechanisms by which information about a
system's output is continuously reintroduced back into the system, initiating a chan of subsequent
events.
Process - CORRECT ANSWER How members of a family relate to one another. What is
happening within the system.
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Differentiation of Self - CORRECT ANSWER Capacity to think and reflect rather than respond
emotionally. The ability to be flexible and act wisely in the face of anxiety.
Undifferentiated People - CORRECT ANSWER Extremely reactive to the people and anxiety
around them.
Bowen's Central Ideas - CORRECT ANSWER Differentiation of self
Triangulation
Fusion
Bowen Perspective on Symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER The Result of Stress
Circular Causality - CORRECT ANSWER The view that causality is nonlinear, occurring
instead within a relationship context and through a network of interacting loops; any cause is thus
seen as an effect of a prior cause, as in the interactions within families.
cybernetics - CORRECT ANSWER The study of methods of feedback control within a system,
especially the flow of information through feedback loops.
Science of feedback; how information can help self-regulate a system.
Double-bind concept - CORRECT ANSWER Conflict created when an individual receives
contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction and cannot leave the situation or relieve the
conflict or tension.
Constructivism - CORRECT ANSWER Relativistic point of view that emphasizes the
subjective construction of reality. Implies that what we see in families may be based as much on our
perceptions as on what's actually going on.
, Goal of Bowenian Therapy - CORRECT ANSWER Insight
Bowenian Assessments - CORRECT ANSWER Genograms
Bowenian Techniques - CORRECT ANSWER Process Questions
Relationship Experiments
First Order Change - CORRECT ANSWER When only a specific behaviour within a system
changes. Superficial change that is temporary.
Second Order Change - CORRECT ANSWER When the rules of the system change.
Sustained change in the organization of structure of the system.
Linear Causality - CORRECT ANSWER View that nonreciprocal relationships exists between
events in a sequence, so that one event causes the next event, not vice versa.
Psychopathology - CORRECT ANSWER A disease concept derived from medicine, referring to
the origins of abnormal behaviour.
Strategic Therapy - CORRECT ANSWER Therapeutic approach in which the therapist
develops a specific plan or strategies and designs interventions aimed at solving the presenting
problem.
Structural Therapy - CORRECT ANSWER Therapeutic approach directed at changing or
realigning the family organization or structure in order to alter dysfunctional transactions and clarify
boundary systems
Feedback Loops - CORRECT ANSWER Circular mechanisms by which information about a
system's output is continuously reintroduced back into the system, initiating a chan of subsequent
events.
Process - CORRECT ANSWER How members of a family relate to one another. What is
happening within the system.
