UCO Nelda Fister- Ind/Fam Dev: Exam 4
2024/2025 Exam All Answers and
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What is a theory? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A theory is a set of statements about
how some part of the world works.
-Makes sense of the world
-Identify patterns
-Make predictions
-Organize research
- Dev & test hypothesis
-Describe & Explain
-Provides answers
Theories are composed of concepts and propositions.
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,What is a concept? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Concepts are either concrete or
abstract and include: major ideas, building blocks & words
Concrete vs. Abstract - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Concrete= "black & white", there is
not a lot of ways to view it. (ex. concept of a chair)
Abstract= Formal thinking, thinks outside the box, left for interpretation. (ex.
love, religion and art)
Assumptions of Systems theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- The family is a holistic
unit
- Families are composed of subsystems that are separated from supra-
system
- Provides physical maintenance (maintains homeostasis)
-Is a complex social system
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,-Families change and Dev.- in different ways because of internal and
external (environmental) influences
-A change in one part of the family leads to a change in the whole system
-All parts of the system are dependent on one another.
-Family constantly exchanges information, energy and matter (resources)
with the environment
Wholesomeness - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The whole is greater than the sum of its
parts.
(ex. family going on a trip together)
Boundaries - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-limitations
-Separates family system from the environment
- Helps maintain the system
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, -Can be referred to as open, closed or random
What is the meaning of an assumption? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Something you
believe to be true
Permeability - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Refers to the degree of openness or
closeness of the systems boundaries
-Controls the systems exchange of energy, information and matter
(resources) with the environment
open vs closed system - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Open: a living system, constantly
exchanging energy, information and matter (resources) with the
environment, the greater the openness the greater possibility for change.
i.e. (couple agreeing to go to therapy together).
Closed: a closed family system is isolated from its environment, the greater
the closure the less possibility of change, does not exchange information,
energy and matter (resources) with the environment
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2024/2025 Exam All Answers and
Illustrations Given
What is a theory? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A theory is a set of statements about
how some part of the world works.
-Makes sense of the world
-Identify patterns
-Make predictions
-Organize research
- Dev & test hypothesis
-Describe & Explain
-Provides answers
Theories are composed of concepts and propositions.
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,What is a concept? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Concepts are either concrete or
abstract and include: major ideas, building blocks & words
Concrete vs. Abstract - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Concrete= "black & white", there is
not a lot of ways to view it. (ex. concept of a chair)
Abstract= Formal thinking, thinks outside the box, left for interpretation. (ex.
love, religion and art)
Assumptions of Systems theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- The family is a holistic
unit
- Families are composed of subsystems that are separated from supra-
system
- Provides physical maintenance (maintains homeostasis)
-Is a complex social system
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,-Families change and Dev.- in different ways because of internal and
external (environmental) influences
-A change in one part of the family leads to a change in the whole system
-All parts of the system are dependent on one another.
-Family constantly exchanges information, energy and matter (resources)
with the environment
Wholesomeness - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The whole is greater than the sum of its
parts.
(ex. family going on a trip together)
Boundaries - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-limitations
-Separates family system from the environment
- Helps maintain the system
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, -Can be referred to as open, closed or random
What is the meaning of an assumption? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Something you
believe to be true
Permeability - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Refers to the degree of openness or
closeness of the systems boundaries
-Controls the systems exchange of energy, information and matter
(resources) with the environment
open vs closed system - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Open: a living system, constantly
exchanging energy, information and matter (resources) with the
environment, the greater the openness the greater possibility for change.
i.e. (couple agreeing to go to therapy together).
Closed: a closed family system is isolated from its environment, the greater
the closure the less possibility of change, does not exchange information,
energy and matter (resources) with the environment
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