ASWB LCSW Clinical Exam 2026: Elite Practice Questions & In-Depth
Answers.
Erikson's Psychosocial Stages - (ANSWER)1. Trust vs Mistrust
2. Autonomy vs Shame & Doubt
3. Initiative vs Guilt
4. Industry vs Inferiority
5. Identity vs Identity Diffusion
6. Intimacy vs Isolation
7. Generativity vs Self-Absorption
8. Integrity vs Despair
Jean Piget's stages of cognitive development - (ANSWER)1. Sensorimotor (0-2)
2. Preoperational (2-7)
3. Concrete operational (7-11)
4. Formal operations (11+)
Piaget's stages of cognitive development - (ANSWER)1. sensorimotor (0-2)
2. preoperational (2-7)
3. concrete operational (7-11)
4. formal operational (11-18)
Kohlberg's stages of moral development - (ANSWER)Preconventional (0-9)
Conventional (adolescence)
Postconventional (adulthood)
Behaviorism classes of behavior - (ANSWER)Respondent - involuntary behavior
Operant - voluntary behavior
, ASWB LCSW Clinical Exam 2026: Elite Practice Questions & In-Depth
Answers.
Pavlov - (ANSWER)Classical conditioning: Learning occurs by pairing neutral stimulus w/ unconditioned
stimulus so that the conditioned stimulus elicits the response normally elicited by the unconditioned
stimulus.
Example - dogs
Bell (conditioned stimulus), elicited salivating (unconditioned stimulus)
Skinner's Operant Conditioning - (ANSWER)Reinforcement increases the behavior.
Punishment decreases the behavior.
aversion therapy - (ANSWER)Pairing a problematic stimuli with an aversive stimuli to decrease aversive
behavior.
Ex. decreasing alcohol use (problematic behav.) with antabuse (aversive stimuli).
Extinction - (ANSWER)the diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when
an unconditioned stimulus (US) does not follow a conditioned stimulus (CS); occurs in operant
conditioning when a response is no longer reinforced.
Flooding - (ANSWER)a treatment for phobias in which clients are exposed repeatedly and intensively to a
feared object and made to see that it is actually harmless
In vivo desensitization - (ANSWER)Brief and graduated exposure to an actual fear situation or event.
systematic desensitization - (ANSWER)A type of exposure therapy that uses rewards to associates a
pleasant relaxed state with anxiety-triggering stimuli.
Ethnicity - (ANSWER)Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a
product of common heredity and cultural traditions. Group may share race, language, or place of origin.
Answers.
Erikson's Psychosocial Stages - (ANSWER)1. Trust vs Mistrust
2. Autonomy vs Shame & Doubt
3. Initiative vs Guilt
4. Industry vs Inferiority
5. Identity vs Identity Diffusion
6. Intimacy vs Isolation
7. Generativity vs Self-Absorption
8. Integrity vs Despair
Jean Piget's stages of cognitive development - (ANSWER)1. Sensorimotor (0-2)
2. Preoperational (2-7)
3. Concrete operational (7-11)
4. Formal operations (11+)
Piaget's stages of cognitive development - (ANSWER)1. sensorimotor (0-2)
2. preoperational (2-7)
3. concrete operational (7-11)
4. formal operational (11-18)
Kohlberg's stages of moral development - (ANSWER)Preconventional (0-9)
Conventional (adolescence)
Postconventional (adulthood)
Behaviorism classes of behavior - (ANSWER)Respondent - involuntary behavior
Operant - voluntary behavior
, ASWB LCSW Clinical Exam 2026: Elite Practice Questions & In-Depth
Answers.
Pavlov - (ANSWER)Classical conditioning: Learning occurs by pairing neutral stimulus w/ unconditioned
stimulus so that the conditioned stimulus elicits the response normally elicited by the unconditioned
stimulus.
Example - dogs
Bell (conditioned stimulus), elicited salivating (unconditioned stimulus)
Skinner's Operant Conditioning - (ANSWER)Reinforcement increases the behavior.
Punishment decreases the behavior.
aversion therapy - (ANSWER)Pairing a problematic stimuli with an aversive stimuli to decrease aversive
behavior.
Ex. decreasing alcohol use (problematic behav.) with antabuse (aversive stimuli).
Extinction - (ANSWER)the diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when
an unconditioned stimulus (US) does not follow a conditioned stimulus (CS); occurs in operant
conditioning when a response is no longer reinforced.
Flooding - (ANSWER)a treatment for phobias in which clients are exposed repeatedly and intensively to a
feared object and made to see that it is actually harmless
In vivo desensitization - (ANSWER)Brief and graduated exposure to an actual fear situation or event.
systematic desensitization - (ANSWER)A type of exposure therapy that uses rewards to associates a
pleasant relaxed state with anxiety-triggering stimuli.
Ethnicity - (ANSWER)Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a
product of common heredity and cultural traditions. Group may share race, language, or place of origin.
