The _______ refers to the early adolescent's sense that everyone is looking at him/her and noticing everything he/she does.
a. imaginary audience
b. personal fable
c. cognitive restructuring
d. complexity syndrome
Q. 2All of the following are premises of structural family therapy except:
a. a functional family has members who respect boundaries within the family.
b. in a functional family, an appropriate boundary balance is found between too rigid and too diffuse.
c. a functional family may have multiple subsystems.
d. in a functional family, the subject matter of each subsystem should be shared with the other subsystems.
Q. 3Being able to think about one's own thinking, recognizing what is internally subjective and objective is called _______.
a. metacognition
b. interspection
c. post formal operations
d. symbolic representation
Q. 4For positive change in an identified client:
a. family members have to become more consistent in how they act.
b. family members have to separate by moving away.
c. family members have to triangulate.
d. family members have to change the way they interact.
Q. 5According to Berk (2002), early adolescents are often _______:
a. neither A nor B
b. both A and B
c. indecisive
d. argumentative
Q. 6Jane increasingly confides in her daughter about problems in Jane's marriage. According to Bowen this is an example of:
a. triangulation.
b. strengthening the marital subsystem.
c. disengagement.
d. self differentiation.
Q. 7Savickas (2002) describes students as finishing the growth stage and entering the _______.
a. concrete operations stage
b. tentative substage exploration
c. formal operations stage
d. choice stage
Q. 8Murray Bowen focused on how family members could maintain a healthy level of ________ while maintaining ________.
a. individuality; closeness
b. honesty; privacy
c. industry; a sense of relaxation in the home
d. solitude; communication
Q. 9All of the following EXCEPT _______ are identified in the chapter as developmental contributors to a high level of drama during the middle school years.
a. family changes
b. real choices that have an impact years later
c. puberty with its sexual awakenings
d. cognitive changes including abstract thought and idealism
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