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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Marriage and Family Dilemmas.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Attendance at therapy permits Erickson to instruct the couple through an intervention how to enable them to do what?
(a) Understand their feelings.
(b) Understand each other.
(c) Make needed changes.
(d) Understand their past.

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) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(b) "Encouraging Resistance".
(c) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(d) "Seeding Ideas".

3. In one case of a wife who dominated her husband in Chapter 7, if a caller on the phone wouldn't announce who they were she would do what?
(a) Accuse her husband of adultery.
(b) Scream.
(c) Hang up.
(d) Cry.

4. In one example in Chapter 3, a client's intense fear is eventually overcome by Erickson's encouragement and relating to the patient's _____.
(a) Strengths.
(b) Fears.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Weaknesses.

5. Harold would finally happen into a heterosexual relationship with whom?
(a) His sister's friend.
(b) His best friend.
(c) An older woman neighbor.
(d) The woman Erickson introduced him to.

Short Answer Questions

1. Erickson's use of hypnosis is shown through these case studies to be ______.

2. Once Erickson _____________, he then keeps out of that friendship so that it takes its own natural course.

3. Which heading in Chapter 1 has the most hypnotic focus?

4. The husband who threatens to kill his wife about the gender of their child is of what occupation?

5. Haley points out that Erickson had suffered from _____ twice and had been debilitated by it/them.

(see the answer key)

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