MSW EXAM TERMS
What should a social worker do after obtaining a subpoena? - ANSWER
Respond and demand the privilege of professional confidentiality. A subpoena
is not the same as a court order, which must be obeyed.
Kohlberg's stages of moral development: ANSWER
A client's information can be hidden from them if there is convincing evidence
that it will cause harm.
Covert discrimination refers to discrimination that is veiled or hidden.
Parallel process: ANSWER an overidentification with the supervisee.
Enactment - ANSWER A practice in which social workers urge their clients to
reproduce incidents exactly as they remember.
Which thinker invented the concept of operant conditioning? - Answer by B.F.
Skinner
The Older Americans Act of 1965 - ANSWER assisted older Americans by
providing subsidies to states.
A protective strategy that allows you to avoid conflict by projecting negative
thoughts, feelings, or urges onto another person or group. - Answer Projection
A thick process that strives to rationalize irrational behaviour by explanation. -
Answer Rationalization
Participant modelling is a demonstration with the expectation that the
participant will demonstrate the behaviour.
Paradoxical directive - ANSWER prescribes the problem, in a sense, so that the
client can understand the significance of the behaviour and proceed toward
goals with better self-awareness.
,Stages of Cultural Identity - Answer
Who first proposed conflict theories? ANSWER Karl Marx
Radical feminism - ANSWER The belief that gender roles are entirely socially
manufactured and serve to give men more power than women.
Clarification approach - ANSWER Attempts to rephrase a problem in a client's
words.
SUPERSYSTEM - ANSWER An entity that is served by several smaller,
component systems and produces output based on that relationship.
Interobserver reliability - ANSWER Measures the extent to which various raters
or assessors produce consistent results concerning the same phenomenon. Also
referred to as inter-rater reliability.
Who created the framework of social work values and divided it into four
categories: societal, organizational and institutional, professional, and human
service practice values? - ANSWER Charles Levy
Kohlberg stages of moral development - answer: pre-conventional,
conventional, and post-conventional.
Water, food, housing, and clothes are the most fundamental human
requirements that must be met.
An example of enactment being utilized in structural family therapy is
ANSWER acting out harmful patterns of behaviour so that the therapist can
intervene and offer more positive interactions to use outside of the session.
Reliability is the extent to which a test produces consistent results.
Validity is the ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure.
, Test-retest reliability is a way for measuring a test's reliability by comparing a
test taker's scores on the same test completed on successive times.
Parallel forms reliability - ANSWER consistency between/among other versions
of the same instrument; for example, generating two parallel forms of a
questionnaire (with difficult questions), and both tests demonstrate correlation.
Internal consistency reliability - ANSWER the assessment of reliability using
replies from only one moment in time
content validity is the amount to which a test samples the behaviour of interest.
Criterion validity is the extent to which a measure is related to an outcome.
Bandura's Social Learning Theory - ANSWER People learn by observation,
mental states are vital for learning, and learning does not always result in
behavior change. Modelling is a key element.
John B. Watson - ANSWER behaviourism; emphasis on people's exterior
behaviours and reactions to a particular setting; famed for the Little Albert
research in which a baby was trained to fear a white rat
Freud stages of psychosexual development: oral stage (0-1), anal stage (1-3),
phallic stage (3-6), latency stage (7-13), genital stage (puberty to death).
Piaget's cognitive development phases include sensorimotor (object
permanence), preoperational (speaking, pretending, intuitive), concrete
operational (inductive reasoning, unique thoughts and feelings), and formal
operational (rational thinking, deductive reasoning).
Erikson's Psychosocial Theory - ANSWER: Trust versus mistrust, autonomy
versus shame and doubt, initiative versus guilt, industry versus inferiority,
identity versus role confusion, closeness versus isolation, generativity versus
stagnation, ego integrity opposed despair.
Single-subject research design - ABA.
What should a social worker do after obtaining a subpoena? - ANSWER
Respond and demand the privilege of professional confidentiality. A subpoena
is not the same as a court order, which must be obeyed.
Kohlberg's stages of moral development: ANSWER
A client's information can be hidden from them if there is convincing evidence
that it will cause harm.
Covert discrimination refers to discrimination that is veiled or hidden.
Parallel process: ANSWER an overidentification with the supervisee.
Enactment - ANSWER A practice in which social workers urge their clients to
reproduce incidents exactly as they remember.
Which thinker invented the concept of operant conditioning? - Answer by B.F.
Skinner
The Older Americans Act of 1965 - ANSWER assisted older Americans by
providing subsidies to states.
A protective strategy that allows you to avoid conflict by projecting negative
thoughts, feelings, or urges onto another person or group. - Answer Projection
A thick process that strives to rationalize irrational behaviour by explanation. -
Answer Rationalization
Participant modelling is a demonstration with the expectation that the
participant will demonstrate the behaviour.
Paradoxical directive - ANSWER prescribes the problem, in a sense, so that the
client can understand the significance of the behaviour and proceed toward
goals with better self-awareness.
,Stages of Cultural Identity - Answer
Who first proposed conflict theories? ANSWER Karl Marx
Radical feminism - ANSWER The belief that gender roles are entirely socially
manufactured and serve to give men more power than women.
Clarification approach - ANSWER Attempts to rephrase a problem in a client's
words.
SUPERSYSTEM - ANSWER An entity that is served by several smaller,
component systems and produces output based on that relationship.
Interobserver reliability - ANSWER Measures the extent to which various raters
or assessors produce consistent results concerning the same phenomenon. Also
referred to as inter-rater reliability.
Who created the framework of social work values and divided it into four
categories: societal, organizational and institutional, professional, and human
service practice values? - ANSWER Charles Levy
Kohlberg stages of moral development - answer: pre-conventional,
conventional, and post-conventional.
Water, food, housing, and clothes are the most fundamental human
requirements that must be met.
An example of enactment being utilized in structural family therapy is
ANSWER acting out harmful patterns of behaviour so that the therapist can
intervene and offer more positive interactions to use outside of the session.
Reliability is the extent to which a test produces consistent results.
Validity is the ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure.
, Test-retest reliability is a way for measuring a test's reliability by comparing a
test taker's scores on the same test completed on successive times.
Parallel forms reliability - ANSWER consistency between/among other versions
of the same instrument; for example, generating two parallel forms of a
questionnaire (with difficult questions), and both tests demonstrate correlation.
Internal consistency reliability - ANSWER the assessment of reliability using
replies from only one moment in time
content validity is the amount to which a test samples the behaviour of interest.
Criterion validity is the extent to which a measure is related to an outcome.
Bandura's Social Learning Theory - ANSWER People learn by observation,
mental states are vital for learning, and learning does not always result in
behavior change. Modelling is a key element.
John B. Watson - ANSWER behaviourism; emphasis on people's exterior
behaviours and reactions to a particular setting; famed for the Little Albert
research in which a baby was trained to fear a white rat
Freud stages of psychosexual development: oral stage (0-1), anal stage (1-3),
phallic stage (3-6), latency stage (7-13), genital stage (puberty to death).
Piaget's cognitive development phases include sensorimotor (object
permanence), preoperational (speaking, pretending, intuitive), concrete
operational (inductive reasoning, unique thoughts and feelings), and formal
operational (rational thinking, deductive reasoning).
Erikson's Psychosocial Theory - ANSWER: Trust versus mistrust, autonomy
versus shame and doubt, initiative versus guilt, industry versus inferiority,
identity versus role confusion, closeness versus isolation, generativity versus
stagnation, ego integrity opposed despair.
Single-subject research design - ABA.
