FAD2230 Exam 3 Questions with Correct
Answers
General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) - Answer-the predictable pattern one's body
follows when coping with stress, which includes the alarm reaction, resistance, and
exhaustion
Social Readjustment Rating Scale - Answer-a scale of major life events over the past
year, each of which is assigned a point value. The higher the score, the greater the
chance of having a serious medical event.
ABC-X Model - Answer-a model designed to help us understand the variation in the
ways that families cope with stress and crisis
Double ABC-X Model - Answer-a model designed to help us understand the effects of
the accumulation of stresses and crises and how families adapt to them
intimate partner violence - Answer-violence between those who are physically and
sexually intimate, such as spouses or partners. the violence can encompass physical,
economic, sexual, or psychological abuse.
Conflict Tactics Scale - Answer-a scale based on how people deal with disagreements
in relationships
learned helplessness - Answer-the psychological condition of having low-self esteem,
feeling helpless, and having no control that is caused by repeated abuse
Battered Women's Syndrome - Answer-a recognized psychological condition, often a
subcategory of post-traumatic stress syndrome, used to describe someone who has
been the victim of constant and/or severe domestic violence
date rape drugs - Answer-drugs such as gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), Rohypnol
(popularly known as "roofies" or "roofenol"), or ketamine hydrochloride (Ketamine) that
are used to immobilize a person to facilitate an assault
child abuse - Answer-an attack on a child that results in an injury and violates our social
norms
trafficking - Answer-the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of
persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of
fraud or deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability, or of the giving
or receiving of payments to achieve the consent of a person having control over another
person, for the purpose of exploitation
, sex trafficking - Answer-an industry in which children are coerced, kidnapped, sold, or
deceived into sexual encounters
elder abuse - Answer-abuse of an elderly person that can include physical abuse,
sexual abuse, psychological abuse, financial or material exploitation, and neglect
intergenerational transmission of violence - Answer-a cycle of violence that is passed
down to dependents
domestic violence shelter - Answer-a temporary safe house for a woman (with or
without children) who is escaping an abusive relationship
crude divorce rate - Answer-the number of divorces per 1000 people in the population
refined divorce rate - Answer-a measure of divorce based on the number of divorces
that occur out of every 1,000 married women
intergenerational transmission of divorce - Answer-a pattern noted by researchers that
people whose parents divorced are also more likely to divorce
no-fault divorce - Answer-a type of divorce, now prevalent in all fifty states, in which a
divorcing couple can go before a judge without one party having to blame the other
legal separation - Answer-a binding agreement signed by both spouses that provides
details about child support
crisis - Answer-a critical change of events that disrupts the functioning of a person's life
family stress - Answer-tensions that test a family's emotional resources
acute stress - Answer-short-term stress
chronic stress - Answer-long-term stress
stations of divorce - Answer-the interrelated emotional, legal, economic, co-parental,
community, and psychic dimensions of divorce, which together attempt to capture the
complexity of the divorce experience
legal divorce - Answer-the termination of the marriage contract by a state court order
alimony - Answer-payment by one partner to the other to support the more dependent
spouse for a period of time
legal custody - Answer-a custody agreement where one parent has the legal authority to
make important decisions concerning the children after a divorce, such as where they
