Chapter 8: Family Communication

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Those extended relational networks of cousins, second cousins, children of cousins, aunts, uncles, and even long-term friends who are considered family are called ______.

a. transacted families

b. social networks

c. friend-families

d. kin networks

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. The term that describes the larger family clan from which you descended is called your ______.

a. extended family

b. family of origin

c. family of generativity

d. family of descent

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. A group of people that you decide is your “true” family even though there is no genetic connection is known as a(n) ______.

a. extended family

b. blended family

c. family of choice

d. binuclear family

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Which one acts as an important mechanism for the creation of a sense of family identity?

a. Norms

b. Family storytelling

c. Family rituals

d. Boundary management

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Family Storytelling

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. What is meant by the kin-keeping function in a family?

a. The parent or guardian who is best suited to have custody of the children following a divorce

b. The act of connecting with siblings in order to carry out adolescent rebellion

c. The act of serving as a reservoir for information about family members and passing it on

d. The act of using rituals to reestablish the “we-ness” of the family group

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Communication of News and Kin Keeping

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a system (and, consequently, a family system)?

a. Synergistic

b. Mutually interdependent

c. Self-regulating

d. Goal oriented

Learning Objective: 8.2: Illustrate how families might be viewed as systems.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Systems

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Rules that guide family communication and relationships are called ______.

a. rituals

b. prescriptions

c. norms

d. scripts

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Norms and Rituals

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. The bidirectionality hypothesis concerns which of the following?

a. A promise of a future vacation

b. A planned holiday activity

c. A parent choosing what night is “movie night” and the child choosing the movie to see

d. A phone call

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Authority and Power

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. The act of praying before dinner represents which of the following features of family communication?

a. Family ritual

b. High conformity

c. Low conversation

d. Family norm

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Norms and Rituals

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. The ways families change to adapt to their environment or external situations are due to which characteristic of a system?

a. Goal-oriented

b. Mutually interdependent

c. Hierarchical

d. Self-regulating

Learning Objective: 8.2: Illustrate how families might be viewed as systems.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Systems

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. What is the one defining feature of traditional views of family?

a. Transgenerational caretaking

b. Marriage

c. Blood ties

d. Authority structure

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. The fact that religion is strongly connected to family and legitimate meanings of family are debated in politics and mandated by law illustrate how families are ______.

a. interconnected

b. seen as institutions

c. private entities

d. transacted

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Chapter Introduction

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways Segrin and Flora argue families can be defined?

a. Functionally

b. Transactionally

c. Structurally

d. Psychologically

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Families as . . .

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. A family you start for yourself and you are one of the parents of at least one child is known as what type of family?

a. Nuclear family

b. Family of choice

c. Family of generativity

d. Extended family

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. If you are the child of two parents and spent some of your childhood with one or both of them, this is what kind of family?

a. Single-parent family

b. Family of descent

c. Family of choice

d. Family of origin

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Children are influenced not only by their families but also by schools, classmates, and the families of their friends. In addition to their family culture, they are immersed in a(n) ______.

a. external network

b. peer group

c. kid culture

d. social network

Learning Objective: 8.2: Illustrate how families might be viewed as systems.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Viewing Families as Systems

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. What type of everyday communication gives a sense of what the family is like and also how the family deals with difficult or traumatic experiences?

a. Family identity

b. Family secret

c. Family transaction

d. Family narrative

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Family Storytelling

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. The creation of one blended family can sometimes mean that the children of divorced parents experience daily life in two “families.” This is described as a ______.

a. extended family

b. blended family

c. family of choice

d. binuclear family

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. When parents adopt nongenetic offspring, or they divorce, or remarry other partners, then so-called ______ is the result.

a. extended family

b. blended family

c. family of choice

d. binuclear family

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Within a system, several components work together to produce something more than the sum of its parts. This is known as ______.

a. nonsummative wholeness

b. mutual interdependence

c. hierarchy

d. throughput

Learning Objective: 8.2: Illustrate how families might be viewed as systems.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Systems

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. In a system, the performance of one part influences the success of the total system. This is known as ______.

a. nonsummative wholeness

b. mutual interdependence

c. hierarchy

d. throughput

Learning Objective: 8.2: Illustrate how families might be viewed as systems.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Systems

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. You and your parent differ on what pizza topping you would like, so you openly discuss your positions and the options available until you reach a solution that fulfills both of your desires. This is an example of the ______ conflict management style.

a. obliging

b. integrating

c. dominating

d. compromising

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Managing Conflict

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. The ______ conflict management style generally emphasizes areas of agreement and deemphasizes areas of disagreement.

a. obliging

b. integrating

c. dominating

d. compromising

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Managing Conflict

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. ______ conflict management styles involve forcing one’s will on another person to satisfy individual desires regardless of negative relational consequences.

a. Obliging

b. Integrating

c. Dominating

d. Compromising

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Managing Conflict

Difficulty Level: Medium

Multiple Response

1. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of these changes are considered as normal growth in intergenerational families?

a. Children are born into the family.

b. Children go to school.

c. Children become independent.

d. Children leave home and start families of their own.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Change in Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. What key terms from systems theory have family scholars applied to families?

a. Mutual interdependence

b. Self-regulation

c. Hierarchy

d. Common fate

Learning Objective: 8.2: Illustrate how families might be viewed as systems.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Viewing Families as Systems

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which are characteristics of a binuclear family?

a. Two families based on the nuclear form

b. The children’s father and their stepmother

c. The children’s mother and their stepfather

d. The parents plus their genetically related children

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as . . .

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. What kind of information do most people use when they construct a family tree?

a. Names

b. Relationships

c. Dates

d. Events

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which are possible characteristics of blended families?

a. A family created by a group of people you decide is your “true” family

b. When parents adopt nongenetic offspring

c. When divorced parents remarry other partners

d. When a family has as its center a nuclear family but also includes grandparents, aunts, cousins, or other blood relatives

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Structural views of families can be defined according to which of the following?

a. Biological ties

b. Legal definitions

c. Communicative definitions

d. Sociological definitions

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. The most appealing definitional approach for family communication scholars is the transactional approach.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Explain how families might be viewed as transacted relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Families as . . .

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Aunts and uncles are considered part of the family of origin.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Every nuclear family also is a small family subgroup within a larger family conceptual group.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Some families are more discourse dependent than others; having to account for how they are family or why their family is different from the traditional family form.

Learning Objective: 8.2: Illustrate how families might be viewed as systems.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Viewing Families as Systems

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Power is always formally structured in families, with parents regarded as the figure of power.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Authority and Power

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Satisfaction with the marital relationship tends to increase sharply with the addition of children to the family.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Immediate Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. When viewed as a structure or as a group of members, the nuclear family is the same right through until someone is added to it or someone is taken away.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Gradual Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. A “family” can be a couple who have no children.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. The one defining feature of such traditional views of a “family” is a transgenerational concept that involves the existence of at least one member of one generation who is the responsibility of at least one member of another generation.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Parental dynamics, including the type and division of emotion work, differ for men and women depending on whether they are in a same‐sex or different‐sex relationship.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Critical theory is an important way to understand families as something made up of parts but operating as a whole system that can achieve functions that individuals alone cannot and that also creates an environment in which those individuals must exist.

Learning Objective: 8.2: Illustrate how families might be viewed as systems.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Characteristics of Systems

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. When a family group may not be perceived as “normal” in conventional family structure, that family faces issues of discourse dependency.

Learning Objective: 8.2: Illustrate how families might be viewed as systems.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Systems

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Studies have found that “traditional” (husband breadwinner) family roles tend to be underscored within discourse used to describe job loss, financial strain, and necessity of dual incomes.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Change in Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. The transition to parenthood is a very significant stressor for couples. However, satisfaction with the marital relationship tends to increase sharply soon after this point.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Immediate Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. In families who view conflict-as-constructive, rather than valuing direct confrontation, members consider confrontations futile and harmful to relationships and to the group as a whole.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conflict as Destructive

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. In families who view conflict-as-constructive, those who engage in confrontation should be disciplined to discourage such destructive behaviors.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conflict as Destructive

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. Women tend to see conflict as an opportunity and prefer to discuss issues and resolve them, whereas, equally broadly speaking, men see conflict as a battle for power, where one of them wins and the other is humiliated.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conflict as Destructive

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Although potentially negative, sibling secrets, collaborations, and conspiracies are more likely to have a positive impact on sibling relationships.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Privacy and Secrets

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Communication protects the family reputation in the outside world and binds the members together through the playing out of their shared secret.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Privacy and Secrets

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Family issues of privacy are becoming increasingly prevalent with the use of social media.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Privacy and Secrets

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. Communication Privacy Management Theory states that family members must negotiate quite frequently about privacy and its violation.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Privacy and Secrets

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. Telling family stories is a way of bonding and uniting the family as well as identifying some of its key characteristics

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Family Storytelling

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Information flow serves a transactive function in the maintenance of family and personal relationships.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Family Storytelling

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. Conflict can be both real or perceived incompatibilities of processes, understandings, and viewpoints between people.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Managing Conflict

Difficulty Level: Easy

Short Answer

1. Name one example of immediate change in a family.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Change in Families

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Boundary management, which focuses on the way marital couples manage talking about private matters with each other, is also known as ______.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Privacy and Secrets

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. In some families, the ______ stresses the role of one parent as head of the family; others stress equality of all the mature members.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Authority and Power

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. A family that has at its center a nuclear family but also includes grandparents, aunts, cousins, and all other living forms of blood relatives is known as what kind of family?

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. What definition of family is the most appealing definition for communication scholars, and why?

Learning Objective: 8.3: Explain how families might be viewed as transacted relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as . . .

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. For many purposes, families are seen primarily as social or demographic structures that contain and connect particular individuals, such as two parents and a child, father and son, or daughter and aunt. This way of seeing “family” is structural or ______.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. In the process of family storytelling, families create a shared sense of meaning about the family experience, whether positive or negative. This way of indicating how families develop a common story about such experiences and events is known as ______.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Family Storytelling

Difficulty Level: Hard

8. Change is inevitable in families and can be immediate or gradual, large or small, good or bad, and recognized or unrecognized. In all cases, these changes are transacted and understood through what process?

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Change in Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Name one or more changes in families that are seen as fractures in the surface of normality.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Change in Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. What is the term for an extended relational network of cousins, children of cousins, aunts, uncles, and even long-term friends who are considered family, too?

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Family as Structure

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. ______ definitions of family are based on those groups that self-define themselves as families with an expectation of future functioning as a “family.”

Learning Objective: 8.3: Explain how families might be viewed as transacted relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as . . .

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Western ethnocentrists see families as structures represented by a small ______ family (i.e., just the parents plus their children).

Learning Objective: 8.3: Explain how families might be viewed as transacted relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Families as . . .

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. An example of the ______ family is when two parents and the kids are nested within a wider group of the grandparents, cousins, broader families of both parents, and many more add-ons of aunts, uncles, and in-laws.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Explain how families might be viewed as transacted relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as . . .

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. In many non-Western cultures, an ______ family includes ancestors long since dead, whom the living have a duty to honor and worship.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Explain how families might be viewed as transacted relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as . . .

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. The clan or historical family tree that you branch from is known as the ______.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Explain how families might be viewed as transacted relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as . . .

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. A family you may start for yourself and where you are one of the parents of at least one child is known as a ______.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Explain how families might be viewed as transacted relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as . . .

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. List the five styles of conflict management in families.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Managing Conflict

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. The ______ is the idea that power can work in two directions; that is, at some points and times it works one way when parents control or influence their young kids, but power also goes the other way and sometimes kids can control or influence parents.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Authority and Power

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. Families have ______, particularly formalized ways for handling the routines of mealtimes or birthday gift giving.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Norms and Rituals

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. ______ may be based on family beliefs about the proper way of indicating respect for elders.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Norms and Rituals

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. ______ often revolves around intergenerational storytelling, where the elders talk about dead relatives or relate stories about particular family characters who defined the essence of being a member of their family.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Family Storytelling

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. ______ is the real or perceived incompatibilities of processes, understandings, and viewpoints between people.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Managing Conflict

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. List at least five different types of families.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. Why is the study of family communication important?

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Chapter Introduction

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Give an example of how the structure of a family can remain the same but the communication dynamics can change.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Gradual Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Explain why privacy management might be a salient issue for blended families.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Privacy and Secrets

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Explain how family communication and relationships might change over time.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Authority and Power

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Explain the bidirectionality hypothesis.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Authority and Power

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Explain how a single-parent family is different from a family of origin.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Describe how gradual change takes place in families.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Gradual Change in Families

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Explain how family secrets held within and among family members are different from family secrets concealed from people outside the family group.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Privacy and Secrets

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Explain how the ways that the structure of a family can be defined.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Explain how families might be viewed as transacted relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as . . .

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Explain the difference between family of origin, family of descent, family of generativity, and single-parent families.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Explain how families might be viewed as transacted relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as . . .

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Explain the concept of family of choice.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Explain similarities and differences between LGBT couples and heterosexual couples.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain how families might be viewed as structures and why that idea is limiting.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Families as Structures

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Explain how families gradually change over time.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Gradual Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Explain how the addition of children can change couples’ communication and behavior.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Immediate Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Explain the integrating style of conflict management.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Managing Conflict

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Explain the obliging style of conflict management.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Managing Conflict

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Explain the four assumptions of “conflict-as-opportunity” in families.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conflict as Opportunity

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Explain the four assumptions of “conflict-as-destructive” in families.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conflict as Destructive

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Explain how men and women might view conflict differently.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Identify how change occurs in families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conflict as Destructive

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. What is kin-keeping in families?

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Communication of News and Kin Keeping

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. Explain the importance of family narratives.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Family Storytelling

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. Explain the importance of holiday rituals to family identity.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Norms and Rituals

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Explain the difference between norms and rituals in families.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify the types of everyday communication in a family that transact the nature of family life.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Norms and Rituals

Difficulty Level: Medium