MSW Exam Terms Questions and
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What should a social worker do when receiving a subpoena? - ✔✔Respond and claim
privelege to confidentiality of the profession. A subpoena is not the same as a court
order, which cannot be refused.
Kohlberg's stages of moral development - ✔✔
A client's information can be kept from them - ✔✔If there is compelling evidence it
would cause harm
Covert discrimination - ✔✔Discrimination that is concealed or hidden.
Parallel process - ✔✔an overidentification with the supervisee
Enactment - ✔✔A technique in which social workers ask their clients to recreate
situations exactly as they remember them
Which theorist introduced the idea of operant conditioning? - ✔✔B.F. Skinner
The Older Americans Act of 1965 - ✔✔Helped older Americans by providing grants to
states
A defense mechanism in which is able to escape conflict of having undesirable
thoughts, feelings, or urges by projecting them onto another person or group. -
✔✔Projection
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,A dense mechanism that seeks to make irrational behavior rational by explanation. -
✔✔Rationalization
Participant modeling - ✔✔Demonstration with the expectation that the behavior will be
demonstrated by the participant
Paradoxical directive - ✔✔prescribes the problem, in a sense, so that the client can grasp
the behavior's significance and move toward goals with greater self-awareness
Stages of cultural identity - ✔✔
With whom did conflict theories originate? - ✔✔Karl Marx
Radical feminism - ✔✔The idea that gender roles are completely socially constructed
and are used to give men more power than women.
Clarification technique - ✔✔Seeks to reformulate a problem in a client's words.
Superasystem - ✔✔An entity that is served by a number of smaller, component systems
and produces output based on that relationship
Interobserver reliability - ✔✔Assesses the degree to which different raters Or assessors
give Consistent results about the same phenomenon. Also known as interrater
reliability.
Who developed the system of social work values And categorized them into four
groups: Societal, organizational an institutional, Professional, and human service
practice values? - ✔✔Charles Levy
Kohlberg stages of moral development - ✔✔preconventional, conventional,
postconventional
Physiological needs - ✔✔the most basic human needs to be satisfied- water, food,
shelter, and clothing
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, An example of enactment being used in structural family therapy - ✔✔Acting out
dysfunctional patterns of behavior So the therapist can intervene and suggest more
positive interactions to use outside of therapy
Reliability - ✔✔the extent to which a test yields consistent results
Validity - ✔✔The ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure
test-retest reliability - ✔✔a method for determining the reliability of a test by comparing
a test taker's scores on the same test taken on separate occasions
parallel forms reliability - ✔✔consistency between/among alternate versions of the
same instrument; e.g. creating 2 parallel forms of a questionnaire (with difficult
questions) and both tests show correlation
internal consistency reliability - ✔✔the assessment of reliability using responses at only
one point in time
content validity - ✔✔the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest
criterion validity - ✔✔the extent to which a measure is related to an outcome
Bandura's Social Learning Theory - ✔✔People learn through observation, mental states
are important to learning, learning does not necessarily lead to change in behavior. Key
element: modeling
John B. Watson - ✔✔behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their
reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught
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)
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Answers 100% Pass
What should a social worker do when receiving a subpoena? - ✔✔Respond and claim
privelege to confidentiality of the profession. A subpoena is not the same as a court
order, which cannot be refused.
Kohlberg's stages of moral development - ✔✔
A client's information can be kept from them - ✔✔If there is compelling evidence it
would cause harm
Covert discrimination - ✔✔Discrimination that is concealed or hidden.
Parallel process - ✔✔an overidentification with the supervisee
Enactment - ✔✔A technique in which social workers ask their clients to recreate
situations exactly as they remember them
Which theorist introduced the idea of operant conditioning? - ✔✔B.F. Skinner
The Older Americans Act of 1965 - ✔✔Helped older Americans by providing grants to
states
A defense mechanism in which is able to escape conflict of having undesirable
thoughts, feelings, or urges by projecting them onto another person or group. -
✔✔Projection
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,A dense mechanism that seeks to make irrational behavior rational by explanation. -
✔✔Rationalization
Participant modeling - ✔✔Demonstration with the expectation that the behavior will be
demonstrated by the participant
Paradoxical directive - ✔✔prescribes the problem, in a sense, so that the client can grasp
the behavior's significance and move toward goals with greater self-awareness
Stages of cultural identity - ✔✔
With whom did conflict theories originate? - ✔✔Karl Marx
Radical feminism - ✔✔The idea that gender roles are completely socially constructed
and are used to give men more power than women.
Clarification technique - ✔✔Seeks to reformulate a problem in a client's words.
Superasystem - ✔✔An entity that is served by a number of smaller, component systems
and produces output based on that relationship
Interobserver reliability - ✔✔Assesses the degree to which different raters Or assessors
give Consistent results about the same phenomenon. Also known as interrater
reliability.
Who developed the system of social work values And categorized them into four
groups: Societal, organizational an institutional, Professional, and human service
practice values? - ✔✔Charles Levy
Kohlberg stages of moral development - ✔✔preconventional, conventional,
postconventional
Physiological needs - ✔✔the most basic human needs to be satisfied- water, food,
shelter, and clothing
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, An example of enactment being used in structural family therapy - ✔✔Acting out
dysfunctional patterns of behavior So the therapist can intervene and suggest more
positive interactions to use outside of therapy
Reliability - ✔✔the extent to which a test yields consistent results
Validity - ✔✔The ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure
test-retest reliability - ✔✔a method for determining the reliability of a test by comparing
a test taker's scores on the same test taken on separate occasions
parallel forms reliability - ✔✔consistency between/among alternate versions of the
same instrument; e.g. creating 2 parallel forms of a questionnaire (with difficult
questions) and both tests show correlation
internal consistency reliability - ✔✔the assessment of reliability using responses at only
one point in time
content validity - ✔✔the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest
criterion validity - ✔✔the extent to which a measure is related to an outcome
Bandura's Social Learning Theory - ✔✔People learn through observation, mental states
are important to learning, learning does not necessarily lead to change in behavior. Key
element: modeling
John B. Watson - ✔✔behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their
reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught
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)
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