Social Work Licensing Exam Questions With
Correct Answers With Correct Answers
Piaget: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Swiss psychology who created theory of cognitive
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development to explain the processes by which humans come to perceive,
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organize knowledge, solve problems and understand the world. According to this
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theory, human cognitive development is the product of a consistent, reliable
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pattern or plan of interaction with the environment, known as a scheme.
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Schemes are goal-oriented strategies that help the person achieve some intended
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result. These schemes are sensorimotor (occurring in infancy and early which, in
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which reflexes and motor responses are prevalent) and cognitive (based on
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experience and on mental images, reflecting the person's ability to develop the
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use of abstract reasoning and symbolism).
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• Erikson: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-German psychologist who worked in human
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psychosocial development theory. Created 8 stages of life.
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• Karen Horney: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Disputed penis envy, calling it both
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inaccurate and demeaning to women. Instead, Horney proposed that men
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experience feelings of inferiority because they cannot give birth to children.
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• Masters & Johnson: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Created sensate focus exercises,
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which focuses on progressive exercises, begins with nongenital touching only,
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leads to genital touching. Goal is to receive pleasure without pressure to perform
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and/or achieve orgasm.
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,• Jesse Taft and Virginia Robinson: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Started functional
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theory. They attributed to the School of SW in PA and influenced the work of
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Mead, Dewey & Rank. This model was presented in contrast to the diagnostic
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school of thought (which was primarily psychoanalytic).
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• Anna Freud: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Started ego psychology
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• Fritz Perls: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Founder of Gestalt theory
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• Mahler: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Founder of object-relations theory
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• Carl Rogers: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Founder of client - centered theory
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• Pincus & Minahan & Garvin: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Founders of systems
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theory
• Ackerman: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-"Father of family therapy." He primarily
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used a psychoanalytic approach, insight oriented
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• Satir & Whitaker: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Communications in family therapy.
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Mainly experiential (through experience), communication and humanistic,
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awareness of here and now leading to personal accountability, and increasing
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patterns of interaction. Satir focused on communication problems, double bind,
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faulty communication is caused by low selfesteem, and she was more of a
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practioner than a theoretician. Whitaker mostly operated with unconscious and
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discussed the transference phenomena. Generally communication family
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therapist acknowledges that intrapsychic factors can provide a foundation for
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,family problems, but they do not try to interpret these factors. Family therapist
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who founded the emphasis in communication patterns are often referred to as
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the "Palo Alto" group coming from CA. Strong emphasis on communication
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theory states that it is impossible to not communicate. Here emphasis is placed
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on behavior as communication and the communication inconsistencies that can
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occur.
• Bowen: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Worked with extended family systems, where
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rational processes are applied to better understand relationships (current and
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intergenerational) and to maximize self-differentiation. Discussed triangulation | | | | | | |
and the dysfunction can come through several generations. Here the therapist is
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a coach. Remember, often used in this approach are genograms and ecomaps.
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Psychodynamic family therapy: resolution of problems should include intrapsychic | | | | | | | |
|exploration & resolution of unconscious object-relationships internalized from
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early parent-child relationships.
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• Minuchin: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Structural family therapy where behaviors
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are established through changes in transactional patterns, rather than through
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insight (action comes before insight). Treatment seeks to restructure family unit
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maladaptive transactional patterns. He believed if you "improve process" that you
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|improve the family. Techniques often used in this model include: direct
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confrontation of family behaviors and prescribing the symptom. This model of
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family therapy is considered best for deriving specific outcomes.
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• Haley: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Strategic family therapy primarily utilizes
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communication theory, systems theory and behaviorism. Similar to structural, the | | | | | | | | |
emphasis is placed on action rather than insight. Here the therapist often joins
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the family and is active in forcing the family to respond differently to situations
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based on the presence of the therapist and making use of family symptoms to
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bring about change. | |
, • Liberman: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Focused on behavior family therapy & social
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learning theory. Treatment is focused on changing behavior patterns. Here the
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traditions of behavior modification remain where behavior is maintained by
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consequences.
• Albert Bandura: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Focus on motivational needs, drives
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and impulses and cognitions toward action or change - are not enough. We are
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social creatures and therefore must take into account social environment - Social
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Learning theory. |
• Pavlov: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Classical model of conditions: relationship
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between a stimulus and a response is unlearned or prewired, emphasis on
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antecedents. (drooling dog) | |
• Skinner: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Operant model of conditions: learning and
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reinforcement, emphasis on consequences. (Rat & treat lever) | | | | | | |
Psychodynamic Theory: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-(Little or no free will). The | | | | | | | | | |
assumption that unconscious cause lies behind every mental process is known as:
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|primary process thinking, secondary process thinking, psychic determinism,
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consensual validation. Psychodynamic theory is predicated on the assumption
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that there is an unconscious which informs one's life. Psychic determinism - the
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idea that personality and behavior are determined more by psychological factors
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than by biological conditions or current life effects.
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o ID - - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The only component of personality that is around
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from birth. Entirely unconscious and includes instinctive & primitive behaviors.
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Correct Answers With Correct Answers
Piaget: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Swiss psychology who created theory of cognitive
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development to explain the processes by which humans come to perceive,
| | | | | | | | | | | |
organize knowledge, solve problems and understand the world. According to this
| | | | | | | | | | |
theory, human cognitive development is the product of a consistent, reliable
| | | | | | | | | | |
pattern or plan of interaction with the environment, known as a scheme.
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Schemes are goal-oriented strategies that help the person achieve some intended
| | | | | | | | | |
result. These schemes are sensorimotor (occurring in infancy and early which, in
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
which reflexes and motor responses are prevalent) and cognitive (based on
| | | | | | | | | | |
experience and on mental images, reflecting the person's ability to develop the
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use of abstract reasoning and symbolism).
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• Erikson: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-German psychologist who worked in human
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psychosocial development theory. Created 8 stages of life.
| | | | | | |
• Karen Horney: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Disputed penis envy, calling it both
| | | | | | | | | | |
inaccurate and demeaning to women. Instead, Horney proposed that men
| | | | | | | | | |
experience feelings of inferiority because they cannot give birth to children.
| | | | | | | | | |
• Masters & Johnson: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Created sensate focus exercises,
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which focuses on progressive exercises, begins with nongenital touching only,
| | | | | | | | | |
leads to genital touching. Goal is to receive pleasure without pressure to perform
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
and/or achieve orgasm.
| |
,• Jesse Taft and Virginia Robinson: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Started functional
| | | | | | | | | |
theory. They attributed to the School of SW in PA and influenced the work of
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Mead, Dewey & Rank. This model was presented in contrast to the diagnostic
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
school of thought (which was primarily psychoanalytic).
| | | | | |
• Anna Freud: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Started ego psychology
| | | | | | |
• Fritz Perls: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Founder of Gestalt theory
| | | | | | | |
• Mahler: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Founder of object-relations theory
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• Carl Rogers: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Founder of client - centered theory
| | | | | | | | | |
• Pincus & Minahan & Garvin: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Founders of systems
| | | | | | | | | | |
theory
• Ackerman: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-"Father of family therapy." He primarily
| | | | | | | | | |
used a psychoanalytic approach, insight oriented
| | | | |
• Satir & Whitaker: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Communications in family therapy.
| | | | | | | | | |
Mainly experiential (through experience), communication and humanistic,
| | | | | | |
awareness of here and now leading to personal accountability, and increasing
| | | | | | | | | | |
patterns of interaction. Satir focused on communication problems, double bind,
| | | | | | | | | |
faulty communication is caused by low selfesteem, and she was more of a
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
practioner than a theoretician. Whitaker mostly operated with unconscious and
| | | | | | | | | |
discussed the transference phenomena. Generally communication family
| | | | | | |
therapist acknowledges that intrapsychic factors can provide a foundation for
| | | | | | | | | |
,family problems, but they do not try to interpret these factors. Family therapist
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
who founded the emphasis in communication patterns are often referred to as
| | | | | | | | | | | |
the "Palo Alto" group coming from CA. Strong emphasis on communication
| | | | | | | | | | |
theory states that it is impossible to not communicate. Here emphasis is placed
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
on behavior as communication and the communication inconsistencies that can
| | | | | | | | | |
occur.
• Bowen: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Worked with extended family systems, where
| | | | | | | | | |
rational processes are applied to better understand relationships (current and
| | | | | | | | | |
intergenerational) and to maximize self-differentiation. Discussed triangulation | | | | | | |
and the dysfunction can come through several generations. Here the therapist is
| | | | | | | | | | | |
a coach. Remember, often used in this approach are genograms and ecomaps.
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Psychodynamic family therapy: resolution of problems should include intrapsychic | | | | | | | |
|exploration & resolution of unconscious object-relationships internalized from
| | | | | | | |
early parent-child relationships.
| |
• Minuchin: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Structural family therapy where behaviors
| | | | | | | | |
are established through changes in transactional patterns, rather than through
| | | | | | | | | |
insight (action comes before insight). Treatment seeks to restructure family unit
| | | | | | | | | | |
maladaptive transactional patterns. He believed if you "improve process" that you
| | | | | | | | | |
|improve the family. Techniques often used in this model include: direct
| | | | | | | | | | |
confrontation of family behaviors and prescribing the symptom. This model of
| | | | | | | | | | |
family therapy is considered best for deriving specific outcomes.
| | | | | | | |
• Haley: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Strategic family therapy primarily utilizes
| | | | | | | | |
communication theory, systems theory and behaviorism. Similar to structural, the | | | | | | | | |
emphasis is placed on action rather than insight. Here the therapist often joins
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
the family and is active in forcing the family to respond differently to situations
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
based on the presence of the therapist and making use of family symptoms to
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
bring about change. | |
, • Liberman: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Focused on behavior family therapy & social
| | | | | | | | | |
learning theory. Treatment is focused on changing behavior patterns. Here the
| | | | | | | | | | | |
traditions of behavior modification remain where behavior is maintained by
| | | | | | | | | |
consequences.
• Albert Bandura: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Focus on motivational needs, drives
| | | | | | | | | |
and impulses and cognitions toward action or change - are not enough. We are
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
social creatures and therefore must take into account social environment - Social
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Learning theory. |
• Pavlov: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Classical model of conditions: relationship
| | | | | | | | |
between a stimulus and a response is unlearned or prewired, emphasis on
| | | | | | | | | | | |
antecedents. (drooling dog) | |
• Skinner: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Operant model of conditions: learning and
| | | | | | | | | |
reinforcement, emphasis on consequences. (Rat & treat lever) | | | | | | |
Psychodynamic Theory: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-(Little or no free will). The | | | | | | | | | |
assumption that unconscious cause lies behind every mental process is known as:
| | | | | | | | | | |
|primary process thinking, secondary process thinking, psychic determinism,
| | | | | | | |
consensual validation. Psychodynamic theory is predicated on the assumption
| | | | | | | | |
that there is an unconscious which informs one's life. Psychic determinism - the
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
idea that personality and behavior are determined more by psychological factors
| | | | | | | | | | |
than by biological conditions or current life effects.
| | | | | | |
o ID - - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The only component of personality that is around
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from birth. Entirely unconscious and includes instinctive & primitive behaviors.
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