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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Marriage and Its Consequences.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the 1950s, there was still debate about what in psychotherapy?
(a) How to administer medications.
(b) How to approach brain chemistry changes.
(c) How to deal with schizophrenia.
(d) How to facilitate desirable change in patients.

2. Which technique is rooted in two ideas: that at least many unconscious motives are beneficial and that positive reinforcement is most effective in influencing behavior?
(a) "Seeding Ideas".
(b) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(c) "Encouraging Resistance".
(d) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".

3. When Erickson conducts long-term therapy, he does not do it as extensive and lengthy contact with meetings once each week for years. Instead, he does what?
(a) Varies the duration of appointments.
(b) Varies the frequency of appointments.
(c) Has telephone sessions.
(d) Has sessions outside his office.

4. Under which heading of Chapter 2 does Haley state that children develop their own roles within families and parents face serious changes when they leave?
(a) "Leaving the Nest".
(b) "Retirement and Old Age".
(c) "Weaning Parents From Children".
(d) "Breaking Apron Springs".

5. Under which heading of Chapter 1 does it state that therapy now helps patients make changes without any focus on understanding why the previous behavior had existed?
(a) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(b) "Encouraging Resistance".
(c) "Awakening and Disengagement".
(d) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".

Short Answer Questions

1. In what technique does Erickson use trance to release people from deep-seated behavior patterns, some of which have been counter productive or relied upon to reduce fears?

2. Erickson's use of intentional forms of amnesia as part of the trance is done in order to _________ and to empower individuals to make certain changes.

3. The period of adolescence that often closely predates major mating activity is one of the most important times for people to do what?

4. Erickson was responsible for the development and introduction into therapies of _____.

5. Erickson was able to encourage an "Asthmatic Mama's boy" out of the role of sickly and meek and out into the realm of what?

(see the answer key)

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