GROUP DYNAMIC

Chapter Test of Transactional Analysis

I.

Please write TRUE if you answer is true, and FALSE, if your answer is false. TA therapist focuses on helping clients rethink and redecide these early decisions in light of present circumstances. The life script helps group members experience their impasse, or the point at which they feel stuck. The important first step in TA approach is awareness. Adult egois a set of related thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in which part of an individuals personality is manifested at a given time. The decisions children make about injunctions become a basic part of their permanent character structure. TA approach can never be considered an existential to psychotherapy. The aim of TA is to enable them to decide consciously whether that state or another state is most appropriate and useful. Transactional analysis cant fully emphasize the cognitive and behavioral dimensions. One of basic assumption of TA is that anything that has been learned can be relearned. The first phase is to work with the clients unconscious process leading to lasting script change.

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II. 1.

Multiple Choices: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

Transactional analysis was originally developed by the late_____, (year)? a. b. c. d. Henric Berne (1966) Erick Borne (1961) Eric Bernel (1964) Eric Berne (1961)

2.

The goal of transactional analysis is_______? a. Responsibility

b. Autonomy c. Change of Beliefs d. Being independent 3. _____________ is the position of people who project heir problems onto others and blame them, put them down, and criticize them. a. b. c. d. 4. Im OK Youre OK. Im OK youre OK Im not OK Youre OK Im not OK Youre not OK

Which one of these examples is belong to counterinjuctions? a. should b. Dont be

5.

______is a familiar emotion that was learned and encouraged in childhood and experienced in many different stress situations. But it is maladaptive as an adult means of problem solving. a. Redecion b. Strokes c. Rackets

6.

What are the three alter ego states: a. Parent, Adult, Child b. Nurturing Parent, Controlling Parent, adult c. Parent, Nurturing Parent, Controlling Parent

7.

You want to go out with friends and your mother says: you probably should get gas. I left the tank pretty low. a. Nurturing parent b. Adult c. Little professor Child

8.

Your boss asks you to stay late to finish a report, and you respond: I cant stay this evening. I have other plans, but Ill get to it first thing in the morning. a. Critical parent b. Nurturing parent c. Adult

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Your friend is late picking you up, and you respond: Cant you ever be on time? No wonder youre such a failure. a. Adult b. Critical parent c. Nurturing parent

10.

Your instruction announces that you will be participating in a group report for class, and you respond: I dislike relying on other people for a grade that I will be getting. a. Natural child b. Adaptive child c. Adult

III.

Fill in the Blanks. 1. _________________ a verbal and nonverbal signs of acceptance and recognition-are also necessary to people as confirmations of their worth. 2. The ___________ is developed early in life as a result of parental teaching and the early decision we make. 3. _________________is a theory of personality, a language of behavior, and an organized system of interactional therapy. 4. TA provides a/an ___________ and ____________ approach to groups. 5. Stephen Karpman assigns three roles to game participants: _________, __________, and _________. 6. ________________________ is known as the depressive position and is characterized by feeling powerless in comparison with others. 7. The positive aspect of _________________ is to provide structure intended for the benefit or success of the individual. 8. Transactional analysis emphasizes the _________ and __________ dimensions. 9. A ________ is an ongoing series of transactions that ends with a negative payoff called for by the script that concludes the game and advances some way of feeling badly. 10. Transactional analysis maintains that people can change by changing their decisions by ___________ in the moment.

IV.

Short Essay 1. Identify and briefly explain the stages of Transactional Analysis Group. (explain each) 2. Identify and describe briefly of 2 kind parent ego states.