ASWB MSW EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
(GRADED A)
.positive reinforcement - Answerincreasing behaviors by presenting positive reinforcers .
Reward pos bx
.Negative reinforcement - AnswerNegative stimulus removed remove shock
.Positive punishment - AnswerUndesirable stimulus hitting or shocking
.Negative punishment - AnswerRemoval of desirable stimulus. Take away tokens
.Respondent - AnswerInvoluntary bx Pavlov
.Operant - AnswerVoluntary bx skinner
.Cognitive Theory - AnswerJean Piaget
.0-2 - AnswerSensorimotor
.2-7 - AnswerPreoperational magical thinking and nightmares
.7-11 - AnswerConcrete operations abstract thought
.Formal operations - Answer11-maturity
.Moral development - AnswerKohlberg
.stages 1-2 elementary school - AnswerPreconventional
.Early adolescence stages 3-4 gain approval - AnswerConventional
.Adult welfare of others stages 5-6 - AnswerPostconventional
.Learning theory - AnswerConceptual framework describing how info is absorbed
processed and retained (behaviorists, cognitive, humanistic, social/situational)
.Individual psychology - AnswerAdler striving for perfection, compensation, cover up
sense of inferiority
.Self psychology - AnswerEntral organizing and motivating force in personality result of
receiving empathetic responses from caretakers early in life (self-objects). Develop self
cohension
,.Validates the child's sense of perfect self - AnswerMirroring self-psychology
.Idealization - AnswerChild borows strngth from others and identifies eith someone
more cspable self psy
.Twinship/twinning - AnswerChild needs an alter ego for sense of belonging
.Ego psychology - AnswerFocuses on rational conscious processes of the ego in the
here and now. Behaves in situation, reality testing, coping and capacity fir relating to
others
.Psychosocial dev focuses on how children socialize - AnswerEric Erickson 8 stages
.Trust v mistrust - AnswerBirth-one trust based on consistency of caregivers
.Autonomy v shame-doubt - Answer1-3 assert independence
.initiative v guilt - AnswerErik Erikson's social crisis stage 3, age 3-5.
.Industry vs. Inferiority - Answer6-12 years sense of pride in accomplisments
.identity vs. role confusion - AnswerErikson's stage during which teenagers and young
adults search for and become their true selves
.intimacy vs isolation - Answeryoung adulthood-willing to be open about self and commit
to a close personal relationship
.Generativity vs. Stagnation - AnswerMiddle Adulthood
.ego integrity vs despair - Answerduring later life-has one led a satisfied life
.object relations theory - AnswerMahler relationships with others strongly rooted in early
attachments
.Normal autism - Answer0-1
.Normal Symbiotic Phase - Answeruntil 5 mo. - aware of mother but not individualized -
Mahler Sep. / Indivi. Theory
.Separation/individuation phase - Answer5-9 mo
.Practicing - Answer9-15 mo
.Rapprochement - Answer15-24 mo physical mobility can dev fear of abondonment
, .object constancy phase - Answer24-38 mo child and mother have separate identity
.Person In Environment Perspective - AnswerCt as part of an environmental system and
encompasses all influences, client centered
.defense mechanisms - Answermental processes that protect individuals from strong or
stressful emotions and situations
.Devaluation - AnswerBPD exageratted negative qualities to self or others
.Idealization - AnswerAdmiring someone so much that you see them as perfect
.Introjection - AnswerIncorporation of values or qualities of an admired person or group
into one's own ego structure
.Projection - AnswerAttributing one's own thoughts, feelings, or motives to another.
.Projection Identification - AnswerUnconsciously attributing and perceiving the behavior
of another as a reflection of self BPD
.reaction formation - Answerdefense mechanism in which unacceptable impulses are
transformed into their opposite
.Sublimation - AnswerMaladaptive bx diverted into something socially acceptable
.Undoing - AnswerSymbolically negating or canceling out an experience that one finds
intolerable
.Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - AnswerThe five levels of needs that humans seek to
satisfy, from most to least important physiological safety social esteem and self
actualization
.Stranger Danger in Children - AnswerInitiates 6-9 months
.separation anxiety - Answeran infant's distress when a familiar caregiver leaves, most
obvious between 9 and 14 months
.standard deviation - Answera computed measure of how much scores vary around the
mean score
.fixed interval schedule - Answera reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response
only after a specified time has elapsed
.fixed ratio schedule - Answerreinforcement is delivered after a specific number of
responses have been made
(GRADED A)
.positive reinforcement - Answerincreasing behaviors by presenting positive reinforcers .
Reward pos bx
.Negative reinforcement - AnswerNegative stimulus removed remove shock
.Positive punishment - AnswerUndesirable stimulus hitting or shocking
.Negative punishment - AnswerRemoval of desirable stimulus. Take away tokens
.Respondent - AnswerInvoluntary bx Pavlov
.Operant - AnswerVoluntary bx skinner
.Cognitive Theory - AnswerJean Piaget
.0-2 - AnswerSensorimotor
.2-7 - AnswerPreoperational magical thinking and nightmares
.7-11 - AnswerConcrete operations abstract thought
.Formal operations - Answer11-maturity
.Moral development - AnswerKohlberg
.stages 1-2 elementary school - AnswerPreconventional
.Early adolescence stages 3-4 gain approval - AnswerConventional
.Adult welfare of others stages 5-6 - AnswerPostconventional
.Learning theory - AnswerConceptual framework describing how info is absorbed
processed and retained (behaviorists, cognitive, humanistic, social/situational)
.Individual psychology - AnswerAdler striving for perfection, compensation, cover up
sense of inferiority
.Self psychology - AnswerEntral organizing and motivating force in personality result of
receiving empathetic responses from caretakers early in life (self-objects). Develop self
cohension
,.Validates the child's sense of perfect self - AnswerMirroring self-psychology
.Idealization - AnswerChild borows strngth from others and identifies eith someone
more cspable self psy
.Twinship/twinning - AnswerChild needs an alter ego for sense of belonging
.Ego psychology - AnswerFocuses on rational conscious processes of the ego in the
here and now. Behaves in situation, reality testing, coping and capacity fir relating to
others
.Psychosocial dev focuses on how children socialize - AnswerEric Erickson 8 stages
.Trust v mistrust - AnswerBirth-one trust based on consistency of caregivers
.Autonomy v shame-doubt - Answer1-3 assert independence
.initiative v guilt - AnswerErik Erikson's social crisis stage 3, age 3-5.
.Industry vs. Inferiority - Answer6-12 years sense of pride in accomplisments
.identity vs. role confusion - AnswerErikson's stage during which teenagers and young
adults search for and become their true selves
.intimacy vs isolation - Answeryoung adulthood-willing to be open about self and commit
to a close personal relationship
.Generativity vs. Stagnation - AnswerMiddle Adulthood
.ego integrity vs despair - Answerduring later life-has one led a satisfied life
.object relations theory - AnswerMahler relationships with others strongly rooted in early
attachments
.Normal autism - Answer0-1
.Normal Symbiotic Phase - Answeruntil 5 mo. - aware of mother but not individualized -
Mahler Sep. / Indivi. Theory
.Separation/individuation phase - Answer5-9 mo
.Practicing - Answer9-15 mo
.Rapprochement - Answer15-24 mo physical mobility can dev fear of abondonment
, .object constancy phase - Answer24-38 mo child and mother have separate identity
.Person In Environment Perspective - AnswerCt as part of an environmental system and
encompasses all influences, client centered
.defense mechanisms - Answermental processes that protect individuals from strong or
stressful emotions and situations
.Devaluation - AnswerBPD exageratted negative qualities to self or others
.Idealization - AnswerAdmiring someone so much that you see them as perfect
.Introjection - AnswerIncorporation of values or qualities of an admired person or group
into one's own ego structure
.Projection - AnswerAttributing one's own thoughts, feelings, or motives to another.
.Projection Identification - AnswerUnconsciously attributing and perceiving the behavior
of another as a reflection of self BPD
.reaction formation - Answerdefense mechanism in which unacceptable impulses are
transformed into their opposite
.Sublimation - AnswerMaladaptive bx diverted into something socially acceptable
.Undoing - AnswerSymbolically negating or canceling out an experience that one finds
intolerable
.Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - AnswerThe five levels of needs that humans seek to
satisfy, from most to least important physiological safety social esteem and self
actualization
.Stranger Danger in Children - AnswerInitiates 6-9 months
.separation anxiety - Answeran infant's distress when a familiar caregiver leaves, most
obvious between 9 and 14 months
.standard deviation - Answera computed measure of how much scores vary around the
mean score
.fixed interval schedule - Answera reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response
only after a specified time has elapsed
.fixed ratio schedule - Answerreinforcement is delivered after a specific number of
responses have been made
