Document contains questions and answers with textbook evidence and past feedback from the memo from the lecturers as many questions were repeated from past years. Question 6 is absent from this document (I am very sorry and have added last years memo in case the answer is in the past memo). Questi...
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PYC4808 ASSIGNMENT 6 2024
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Please note:
I was not sent question 6. So, I have attached last year’s memo answers for the quiz in the hopes
that question 6 is present among the past questions and answers. I deeply apologise! Good luck!
Question 1
At the level of second order cybernetics (SOC) we understand reality based on our own
epistemological premises and all our analyses or assumptions and perceptions are based on our own
perceptions.
Which of the following concepts best aligns with this statement?
a. Morphostasis
b. Wholeness and self-reference
c. Structural coupling
d. Non-purposeful drift
TEXTBOOK NOTES FOR THE ANSWER
What are the principles of SOC?
➢ Wholeness and Self-reference
➢ Openness and Closedness
➢ Autopoiesis
➢ Structural Determinism
➢ Structural Coupling and Nonpurposeful Drift
➢ Epistemology of participation
➢ Reality as a multiverse
1. Wholeness and Self-Reference
• We make distinctions based on our own frames of reference, and we punctuate reality according to
these epistemological premises
• (Becvar & Becvar, 2014, pp. 84)
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Question 2
According to Murray Bowen (1976), a dyad (two-person relationship) may be a relatively stable unit
when things are going well. However, when a problem arises, one member of the dyad may draw in
a third person, to create a____________ in an attempt to______________
a. Symmetrical relationship; diffuse tension/conflict
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