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CHAPTER 9 - Activities - PowerPoint - Quiz

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE FAMILY

1. Explain what a family is and how a family is positively and negatively affected by their
communication.
2. Identify and define various family configurations.
3. Explain the relationship between family and culture.
4. Identify family images, themes, boundaries, and bio-social beliefs.
5. Explain the family as a system.
6. Differentiate between less healthy and more healthy families.
7. Describe family conflict and parental authority.
8. Evaluate and explain aggression in family settings.
9. Explain and put into operation some techniques to improve family communication.

Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following are we likely to learn from our family of origin?

a. Attitudes about self-reliance, how to please and displease others, responsibility, obedience, dominance.

b. Social skills and attitudes about aggression, loyalty, gender roles, age-roles.

c. Values, including attitudes about ethics, morals, family traditions, theological beliefs and aesthetic values.

d. All of the above.

2. All of the following are typical of a dysfunctional family EXCEPT:

a. There is a willingness to talk about power struggles in the family.

b. There is an unwillingness to communicate about differences in intimacy needs.

c. Individuals like to use power struggles in the family.

d. There is an inability to communicate about conflict.

3. What is the purpose or function of family communication?

a. Communicate to create and maintain family.

b. Deal with issues of closeness and distance.

c. Maintain traditions.

d. Make decisions.

e. All of the above.

4. Which of the following is typically the most effective interpersonal communication family system in US culture?

a. Position-oriented family.

b. Person-oriented family.

c. History-oriented family.

d. Productivity-oriented family.

ANSWERS: MC1. d. MC2 a. MC3 e. MC4. b

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