Social Work Comprehensive Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Which of the following approaches proposes that the superego is the personality structure that
guides moral development?
A. Social learning approach
B. Behavioral developmental approach
C. Psychodynamic approach
D. Cognitive developmental approach - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- C. Psychodynamic
approach
A __________________ is a set of persons who were born at the same historical time and
who experience particular social changes within a given culture in the same sequence and
age.
Support group
Class
Cohort
Subsystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Cohort
________ is the ability of an individual, family, group, community or organization to recover
from adversity and resume functioning even when suffering serious trouble, confusion, or
hardship.
Transitions
,Adaptation
Strength
Resilience - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Resilience
This perspective emphasizes the importance of relationships between systems within an
environment and considers how the environment affects human development, interaction, and
quality of life.
Sociopsychological perspective
Human ecology perspective
Theoretical community perspective
Structural perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Human ecology perspective
A primary goal within the area of Social Work is that of empowering people. The concept of
empowerment in social work is defined as _________.
None of the above
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or financial resources of individuals to help them take
action to improve their situations
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or political power so that individuals can take action to
improve their situations
Increasing client political power and financial resources to improve their situations -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Increasing personal, interpersonal, or political power so that
individuals can take action to improve their situations
,According to Mary Ainsworth's theory of attachment, when a child uses the mother as a home
base and feels comfortable leaving this base to explore their environment. This is considered
to be which of the following types of attachment?
Avoidant attachment
Secure attachment
Positive attachment
Anxious attachment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Secure attachment
Which of the following approaches proposes that behavior is shaped by environmental
reinforcements and punishments?
Behavioral developmental approach
Psychodynamic approach
Cognitive developmental approach
Social learning approach - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Social learning approach
In this stage within Piaget's cognitive development, children begin to think logically on a
concrete level, begin to develop the capacity to think from other points of view, and the child
develops the ability to conceptualize in terms of reversibility.
Sensorimotor Stage
Preoperational Stage
, Concrete Operational Stage
Formal Operational Stage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Concrete Operational Stage
_________ is the systematic denial of access to assets, economic opportunities, associations,
and organizations based on minority status.
Institutional racism
Resource diffusion
Socialism
Capitalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Institutional racism
This perspective focuses on how chronological age, relationships, common life transitions
and social change shape people's lives from birth to death.
Life course perspective
Person-in-environment perspective
Developmental perspective
Identity development perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Life course perspective
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Which of the following approaches proposes that the superego is the personality structure that
guides moral development?
A. Social learning approach
B. Behavioral developmental approach
C. Psychodynamic approach
D. Cognitive developmental approach - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- C. Psychodynamic
approach
A __________________ is a set of persons who were born at the same historical time and
who experience particular social changes within a given culture in the same sequence and
age.
Support group
Class
Cohort
Subsystem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Cohort
________ is the ability of an individual, family, group, community or organization to recover
from adversity and resume functioning even when suffering serious trouble, confusion, or
hardship.
Transitions
,Adaptation
Strength
Resilience - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Resilience
This perspective emphasizes the importance of relationships between systems within an
environment and considers how the environment affects human development, interaction, and
quality of life.
Sociopsychological perspective
Human ecology perspective
Theoretical community perspective
Structural perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Human ecology perspective
A primary goal within the area of Social Work is that of empowering people. The concept of
empowerment in social work is defined as _________.
None of the above
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or financial resources of individuals to help them take
action to improve their situations
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or political power so that individuals can take action to
improve their situations
Increasing client political power and financial resources to improve their situations -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Increasing personal, interpersonal, or political power so that
individuals can take action to improve their situations
,According to Mary Ainsworth's theory of attachment, when a child uses the mother as a home
base and feels comfortable leaving this base to explore their environment. This is considered
to be which of the following types of attachment?
Avoidant attachment
Secure attachment
Positive attachment
Anxious attachment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Secure attachment
Which of the following approaches proposes that behavior is shaped by environmental
reinforcements and punishments?
Behavioral developmental approach
Psychodynamic approach
Cognitive developmental approach
Social learning approach - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Social learning approach
In this stage within Piaget's cognitive development, children begin to think logically on a
concrete level, begin to develop the capacity to think from other points of view, and the child
develops the ability to conceptualize in terms of reversibility.
Sensorimotor Stage
Preoperational Stage
, Concrete Operational Stage
Formal Operational Stage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Concrete Operational Stage
_________ is the systematic denial of access to assets, economic opportunities, associations,
and organizations based on minority status.
Institutional racism
Resource diffusion
Socialism
Capitalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Institutional racism
This perspective focuses on how chronological age, relationships, common life transitions
and social change shape people's lives from birth to death.
Life course perspective
Person-in-environment perspective
Developmental perspective
Identity development perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Life course perspective
