Cybernetics

Cybernetics: SHIFT from intrapersonal to interpersonal

Cybernetics: What function does [blank_start]behavior[blank_end] serve within the system?

Which was the first systems model?

Cybernetics: The study of [blank_start]feedback[blank_end] mechanisms in self-[blank_start]regulating[blank_end] systems.

The following people are associated with Cybernetics:

Cybernetics: Optimal/homeostatic range describes when the people in power know and enforce the rules.

Cybernetics: homeostatic range is mostly...

Cybernetics: When not functioning at optimal range, there will be [blank_start]feedback[blank_end] within the system.

Cybernetics: This metaphor is a useful way to understand the feedback loop.

Cybernetics: All of these things are true about FAMILY RULES.

Cybernetics: Negative feedback loops signal to return to the homeostatic range.

Cybernetics: Negative feedback can come in the form of guilt, punishment, or symptoms.

Cybernetics: positive feedback loops can be described by which of the following?

Cybernetics: [blank_start]meta-communication[blank_end] is communication about communication. Therapist helps family to talk about how they talk with the goal of recognizing [blank_start]negative[blank_end] feedback loops.

Cybernetics looks at:

Cybernetics: The predictable steps/patterns and developmental tasks a family experiences over time

Cybernetics: Time period in the life of a family; has a unique structure

Cybernetics: Shift from one family stage to another. "Now who am I?"

Cybernetics: This person worked with stages of family development such as romantic relationships, the honeymoon stage, children, career, and retirement.

Cybernetics: This person focused on individual development.

Cybernetics - Erickson's family development - Trust v. [blank_start]mistrust[blank_end] (0-18 mos.) [blank_start]Autonomy[blank_end] v. shame (18 mos. - 3 years) [blank_start]Initiative[blank_end] v. guilt (3-5) Industry v. [blank_start]inferiority[blank_end] (6-12) [blank_start]Identity[blank_end] v. role confusion (adolescence) Intimacy v. [blank_start]isolation[blank_end] (young adulthood) [blank_start]Generativity[blank_end] v. stagnation Integrity v. [blank_start]despair[blank_end] (looking back over life)

Cybernetics: Testes and ovaries

Cybernetics: Outward expression of male or female

Cybernetics: Hetero, homo, bi, a-

Cybernetics: John [blank_start]Bowlby[blank_end] formulated Attachment Theory - the bond between infant and caregiver.

Cybernetics: Mary [blank_start]Ainsworth[blank_end] came up with three attachment styles (secure, anxious-avoidant, and anxious-ambivalent).

Cybernetics: Mary [blank_start]Main[blank_end] added disorganized attachment to the possible attachment styles.

Cybernetics: Attachment is a physical bond between an individual and an attachment figure.

Cybernetics: [blank_start]Input[blank_end] can be energy, time, affection, or attention.

Cybernetics: [blank_start]Throughput[blank_end] (the process of making input usable) can be discussions, sharing, planning, or thinking.

Cybernetics: [blank_start]Output[blank_end] is the result of throughput, and includes symptoms and behavior.

Cybernetics: Can be kids to each other; parents to each other; or kids to parents

Cybernetics: Can be described as a "rock."

Cybernetics: Healthy and changing

Cybernetics: No outside input

Cybernetics: Interacts with the environment.

Cybernetics: Boundaries can be any of the following.

Cybernetics: Negentropy is the concept that everything is headed toward chaos.

Teachers use cybernetic processes by providing throughput (grades on papers) in order to make corrections.

Cybernetics: [blank_start]Equifinality[blank_end] - when several paths lead to the same result.

Cybernetics: [blank_start]Multifinality/Equipotentiality[blank_end] - one path leads to several results.

Cybernetics: General Systems Theory...

Cybernetics: Homeostasis is the tendency of an organism to resist change.

Cybernetics: [blank_start]Process[blank_end] - behavior that occurs infrequently

Cybernetics: [blank_start]Structure[blank_end] - behavior that occurs frequently, predictably, and becomes part of the system

Cybernetics: COGNITIVE MAPS - models by which incoming information is [blank_start]perceived[blank_end], which then leads to a behavioral [blank_start]response[blank_end]

Cybernetics: ECOMAPS are composed of...