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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, Haley shows how Erickson applied therapy when the challenge was to help new parents over into the ______ of being parents.
(a) Regression.
(b) Phase of life.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Involvement.

2. Haley writes that the majority of the young adults who the therapist meets with do want to ____.
(a) Marry.
(b) Get an education.
(c) Separate.
(d) Divorce.

3. It states in Chapter 2 that therapists often discover that habituated communication problems and other issues, including the involvement of _____, are all highly relevant to the families at this juncture.
(a) Therapists.
(b) Alcohol and drugs.
(c) Grandparents.
(d) Friends and neighbors.

4. 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) Has telephone sessions.
(b) Varies the frequency of appointments.
(c) Varies the duration of appointments.
(d) Has sessions outside his office.

5. One of the most prominent facts about Chapter 5 is that what early in a marriage are a common and readily treatable problem?
(a) Compatibility issues.
(b) Financial worries.
(c) Dominance difficulties.
(d) Sexual difficulties.

6. The period of adolescence that often closely predates major mating activity is one of the most important times for people to do what?
(a) Receive medication if needed.
(b) Appreciate their families.
(c) Receive any necessary therapy.
(d) Branch out on their own.

7. Under which heading in Chapter 2 does Haley explain that what occurs here is that couples are faced with dynamic challenges?
(a) "Marriage and its Consequences".
(b) "Childbirth and Dealing with the Young".
(c) "Premeditated Childbirth".
(d) "Extension of Family".

8. Erickson addresses Harold's anxieties and hatred about women in a simple way. He ______ a relationship with a woman who teaches him.
(a) Initiates.
(b) Asks about.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) Follows.

9. Haley states in Chapter 2 that a pattern involving a built-in need for making changes and adjustments is part of what?
(a) The phase of marriage.
(b) The phase of bearing children.
(c) The phase of old age.
(d) The phase of adolescence.

10. In Chapter 5, Haley writes about a case in which a wealthy woman had to be tranced into more full awareness of her feelings of acceptance during her childhood and how this set a healthy foundation for her to feel confident in her ability to do what?
(a) Speak to her husband about insecurity.
(b) Be a good wife.
(c) Have sexual intercourse.
(d) Be a good mother.

11. Haley points out that Erickson had suffered from _____ twice and had been debilitated by it/them.
(a) Strokes.
(b) Nervous breakdowns.
(c) Polio.
(d) Heart attacks.

12. Once Erickson _____________, he then keeps out of that friendship so that it takes its own natural course.
(a) Arranges for a client to contact parental figures.
(b) Sets up interviews with other clients.
(c) Helps a patient to establish contact.
(d) Sets up a date.

13. In Chapter 2, the author notes that among humans, the mating style appears to vary _____.
(a) Culturally.
(b) According to society.
(c) Innately.
(d) Periodically.

14. After other deep work is done and Harold has some very enjoyable experiences with women he does what of his own accord?
(a) Pursues women.
(b) Makes amends with his mother.
(c) Makes amends with his sister.
(d) Pursues men.

15. The cases in Chapter 5 typically include whom in the couple?
(a) The husband.
(b) Both parties.
(c) The children.
(d) The wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Erickson writes of withholding and sharing information and of how he succeeds in curing a young woman of pain she experiences during ______.

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?

3. Family stress is most severe when someone is _________ (in) the family.

4. The amnesia seems to be for the purpose of helping the clients themselves to be able to feel as if he has not done what?

5. Which heading in Chapter 1 involves subjective aspects of time?

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