ASWB Practice Exam Questions and
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systems theory - ✔✔emphasize relationships among groups, individuals, etc
psychodynamic theory - ✔✔how internal processes motivate behavior
social learning theory - ✔✔suggests human behavior is learned through environment
conflict theory - ✔✔conflict/dominance/oppression impact social life, power is
unequally divided
preconventional moral reasoning - ✔✔stage 1: accepting what world says it right
conventional moral reasoning - ✔✔stage 2: based on interpersonal experience
post conventional moral reasoning - ✔✔stage 3: based on self-chosen moral
rights/justice
infancy (erikson) - ✔✔trust vs mistrust
early childhood (erikson) - ✔✔autonomy vs shame/doubt
play age (erikson) - ✔✔initiative vs guilt
school age (erikson) - ✔✔industry vs inferiority
adolescence (erikson) - ✔✔identity vs identity diffusion
young adult (erikson) - ✔✔intimacy vs isolation
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, adult (erikson) - ✔✔generativity vs self-absorption
mature (erikson) - ✔✔integrity vs disgust/dispair
strengths perspective - ✔✔assumption that client has multiple strengths to emphasize
feminist perspective - ✔✔take into account gender and lack of power--collaboration
asceticism - ✔✔eliminating pleasurable effects of experiences; moral aspect;
gratification from renunciation
sublimation - ✔✔achieving gratification but altering a socially objectionable aim to a
socially acceptable one
suppression - ✔✔consciously or semiconsciously postponing attention to a conscious
impulse or conflict
denial - ✔✔avoiding awareness of some painful aspect of reality by negating it
completely
distortion - ✔✔reshaping external reality to suit inner needs
projection - ✔✔perceiving and reacting to unacceptable inner impulses as though they
were outside self
introjection - ✔✔internalizing qualities of an object
schizoid fantasy - ✔✔autistic retreat to resolve conflict
somatization - ✔✔converting psychic derivatives into bodily symptoms and tending to
react with somatic manifestations
displacement - ✔✔shifting an emotion or drive from one object to another that
resembles the original in some aspect or quality
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systems theory - ✔✔emphasize relationships among groups, individuals, etc
psychodynamic theory - ✔✔how internal processes motivate behavior
social learning theory - ✔✔suggests human behavior is learned through environment
conflict theory - ✔✔conflict/dominance/oppression impact social life, power is
unequally divided
preconventional moral reasoning - ✔✔stage 1: accepting what world says it right
conventional moral reasoning - ✔✔stage 2: based on interpersonal experience
post conventional moral reasoning - ✔✔stage 3: based on self-chosen moral
rights/justice
infancy (erikson) - ✔✔trust vs mistrust
early childhood (erikson) - ✔✔autonomy vs shame/doubt
play age (erikson) - ✔✔initiative vs guilt
school age (erikson) - ✔✔industry vs inferiority
adolescence (erikson) - ✔✔identity vs identity diffusion
young adult (erikson) - ✔✔intimacy vs isolation
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, adult (erikson) - ✔✔generativity vs self-absorption
mature (erikson) - ✔✔integrity vs disgust/dispair
strengths perspective - ✔✔assumption that client has multiple strengths to emphasize
feminist perspective - ✔✔take into account gender and lack of power--collaboration
asceticism - ✔✔eliminating pleasurable effects of experiences; moral aspect;
gratification from renunciation
sublimation - ✔✔achieving gratification but altering a socially objectionable aim to a
socially acceptable one
suppression - ✔✔consciously or semiconsciously postponing attention to a conscious
impulse or conflict
denial - ✔✔avoiding awareness of some painful aspect of reality by negating it
completely
distortion - ✔✔reshaping external reality to suit inner needs
projection - ✔✔perceiving and reacting to unacceptable inner impulses as though they
were outside self
introjection - ✔✔internalizing qualities of an object
schizoid fantasy - ✔✔autistic retreat to resolve conflict
somatization - ✔✔converting psychic derivatives into bodily symptoms and tending to
react with somatic manifestations
displacement - ✔✔shifting an emotion or drive from one object to another that
resembles the original in some aspect or quality
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