Family Relations Family Relations requires students to use a system of relationships to link separate beings and categories and emphasizes the necessary and sufficient conditions for inclusion in and exclusion from categories. The exercises in Family Relations demand precise use of language in encoding and decoding relationships and require inferential thinking, analytic thinking, and deductive reasoning to justify conclusions based on logical evidence.  
 Definition of problem in order to determine what one is being asked to do. 
 Using only information that is relevant. 
 Comparison between elements and relationships to determine similarities and differences. 
 Bearing in mind a number of distinct essentials and the relationships among them. 
 Hypothetical thinking and the use of logical evidence to justify one’s conclusions. 
 Seeking the links and bonds that unite separate entities