Biosocial
This describes the relationship between the biological and the social. The family is a perfect example of this type of entity because its members share some genetic structure as well as the same social environment, with the purpose of advancing its individual members and its unified entity.
What is biosocial?
______ ideas are used as a basis of understanding modern behavior concerning biosocial theory.
What are Charles Darwin’s?
These are theoretical lines of demarcation in a family that define a system as an entity and separate the subsystems from one another and the system from its environment.
What are boundaries?
These are at the core of the cybernetics model. They are the self-correcting mechanisms which serve to govern families’ attempts to adjust or vary from customary patterns and maintain its organizational sameness (homeostasis).
What are feedback loops?
This refers to dynamic aspects that are changing within the system. Often, family therapists make the distinction between this (how something is said) and content (what is being said).
What is process?
This is the ability to change or increase the level of fitness to improve the chances of survival with greater numbers of offspring.
What is adaptation?
This term has to do with the relationship between genetic predispositions and social interactions?
What is proximate?
This describes a system’s tendency toward growth, creativity, change and innovation.
What is morphogenesis?
This is a unit bounded by a set of interrelated elements and which exhibits coherent behaviors.
What is a system?
This refers to the tendency of a system to resist change and maintain dynamic equilibrium or a steady state. This is maintained by negative feedback and input loops.
What is homeostasis? Also will accept morphostasis, but remember homeostasis...it's the one in the study book.
This refers to the ability to fit within the environment.
What is fitness?
W. D. Hamilton believed in the concept of ______, which means not only that the individual changes and adapts over time in order to survive, but also that fitness includes those individuals who surround or are related to the individual.
What is inclusive fitness?
This refers to the notion that different end states can occur from the same initial conditions. Similar events (e.g., natural disaster) can prime depression or trauma as well as growth or happiness.
What is equipotentiality?
These are systems that interact regularly with the environment with relatively no inhibition.
What are open systems?
These are regions between each subsystem of the family and between the family and the suprasystem.
What is boundary interface?
This explains our evolutionary past because it is through adaptation that those genes most able to ensure survival were passed along to the next generation (not survival of the fittest but the other one).
What is natural selection?
According to Biosocial Theory, this is focused on the interaction between the past and the present?
What is distal causation?
This is a volatile and intense way of disguising and distorting both affection and splits.
What is pseudohostility?
From Lyman Wynne, this describes a systemic pretense of harmony and closeness that hides conflict and interferes with intimacy.
What is pseudomutuality?
This refers to reciprocal or circular causality. Rather than viewing an element in a vacuum devoid of interactions between its environment and its own system’s levels or subsystems, this speaks to the mutual interaction and influence that occurs between people, events, and their ecosystem.
What is recursiveness?
According to Massey (2015), genes are not simply inherited and automatically expressed, but they are turned on and off through interactions with this.
What is the environment?
This describes why people choose to be parents.
What is reciprocal altruism?
From Theodore Lidz, this is when the parents are overly focused on their own problems which harms the marriage, the individuals, and the children.
What is marital schism?
From Theodore Lidz, this is when one parent dominates the family, and the other is dependent.
What is marital skew?
Individuals and the system at large will consciously or unconsciously use these which are meant to manage their boundaries and make sense of their individual and shared realities.
What are family models/maps?