ASWB LCSW Exam Questions and
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
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.
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
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.
