Week 19:family

Question 1

Nuclear family

Answer 1

A family group made up a parents and children only.

Question 2

Extended family

Answer 2

A family group including relatives beyond the nuclear family.

Question 3

Family therapy

Answer 3

A therapeutic approach that works with families or other groups of close relationships

Question 4

Script

Answer 4

In psychology, script means an establish way of behaving in a particular situation.

Question 5

Replicative script

Answer 5

A way of behaving in response to situation that repeats earlier behaviour. Either of the person or of someone they have observed.

Question 6

Corrective script

Answer 6

A way of behaving in response to a situation that is adopted to try to differ from a past way of doing things.

Question 7

Attribution

Answer 7

The ways in which people perceive cause in every day situations.

Question 8

Global attribution 

Answer 8

When a cause being assigned to seem to be a stable part of the person, i.e. as a characteristic that persists through different situations.

Question 9

Triangulation

Answer 9

In Family systems, a relational dynamic where a third-party is used in a conflict between two people.

Question 10

Genogram

Answer 10

An informative family diagram used in both therapy and research.

Question 11

Systems theory

Answer 11

An interdisciplinary research area looking at how complex systems work.