LCSW (ASWB Clinical Exam) 2025/2026
Exam Questions with 100% Correct
Answers | Latest Update
What is the 3 Levels of Consciousness? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Conscious, Pre-
conscious & Unconscious
According to Psychoanalytic Theory behaviors & thoughts are driven by WHAT
unconscious forces, motives, & drives? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Unconscious Dreams,
Desires, Defenses, & Wishes
Psychoanalysts believe that behaviors are shaped by? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Repressed
Childhood Memories & Experiences
Freud believed that thoughts & ideas that create anxiety or distress are pushed from
the conscious to the unconscious. This process is referred to as? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Repression
,What are the 3 Structural Personality Developmental stages? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Id,
Ego, & Superego
The most primitive stage of the personality is? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Id
Two of the early cognitive theorists Alfred ______ & Albert _______. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Alfred Adler & Albert Ellis
The three levels of moral development are? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Pre-conventional,
Conventional & Post-conventional
Respodent or Classical conditioning was formulated by John ______ & Ivan
______. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Watson & Pavlov
According to Skinner all Behaviors can be elicited or eliminated through ______
or _____ reinforcement. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Positive & Negative
The work of cognitive theory address Mis-______, ______ thoughts ______
beliefs. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Misconceptions, irrational thoughts & false beliefs.
The 2 stages of conventional moral development focus on? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Individuals seeking to gain the approval of others & adherence to laws & rules.
,Classical conditioning refers to the process by which an individual learns a
behavior through ______. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Association
Decreasing the likelihood & frequency of a behavior by presenting an unpleasant
reinforcement or punishment is known as what type conditioning? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Aversion
What does ABC stand for in cognitive behavioral therapy? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A =
Activating Event
B = Individual's thoughts & beliefs about A
C = Emotional Response & Consequences of B
Moral Development is learned primarily from the individual's _______. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Family
According to Pavlov, behaviors are a _______ to or result of some environmental
event or ________. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Response & Stimulus
________ are defined as the presentation of a positive or negative stimulus
following a behavior in order to increase the probability of its occurrence. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Reinforcers
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, The stage of development that involves an infant using her/his senses and motor
functions to understand the world is? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Sensorimotor
The two types of Piaget's adaption are? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Assimilation (the
incorporation of an aspect of one's environment into an existing mental schema)
OR
Accommodation (The adaptation or modification of existing mental schema to the
characteristics of a new object).
This type of test of reliability is where research subjects' test scores are compared
with one another using the same test is known as? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Inter-Rater
This type of single-subject design A-B design is know as? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Basic
single systems design
The two phases of N=1 are? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Baseline & Intervention Phase
This cognitive approach technique is used to make the client aware of & continue
the behavior that is causing anxiety (i.e., fear of public speaking) & to provide the
client w/ a sense of control. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Paradoxical Direction (Directive)
Exam Questions with 100% Correct
Answers | Latest Update
What is the 3 Levels of Consciousness? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Conscious, Pre-
conscious & Unconscious
According to Psychoanalytic Theory behaviors & thoughts are driven by WHAT
unconscious forces, motives, & drives? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Unconscious Dreams,
Desires, Defenses, & Wishes
Psychoanalysts believe that behaviors are shaped by? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Repressed
Childhood Memories & Experiences
Freud believed that thoughts & ideas that create anxiety or distress are pushed from
the conscious to the unconscious. This process is referred to as? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Repression
,What are the 3 Structural Personality Developmental stages? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Id,
Ego, & Superego
The most primitive stage of the personality is? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Id
Two of the early cognitive theorists Alfred ______ & Albert _______. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Alfred Adler & Albert Ellis
The three levels of moral development are? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Pre-conventional,
Conventional & Post-conventional
Respodent or Classical conditioning was formulated by John ______ & Ivan
______. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Watson & Pavlov
According to Skinner all Behaviors can be elicited or eliminated through ______
or _____ reinforcement. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Positive & Negative
The work of cognitive theory address Mis-______, ______ thoughts ______
beliefs. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Misconceptions, irrational thoughts & false beliefs.
The 2 stages of conventional moral development focus on? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Individuals seeking to gain the approval of others & adherence to laws & rules.
,Classical conditioning refers to the process by which an individual learns a
behavior through ______. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Association
Decreasing the likelihood & frequency of a behavior by presenting an unpleasant
reinforcement or punishment is known as what type conditioning? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Aversion
What does ABC stand for in cognitive behavioral therapy? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A =
Activating Event
B = Individual's thoughts & beliefs about A
C = Emotional Response & Consequences of B
Moral Development is learned primarily from the individual's _______. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Family
According to Pavlov, behaviors are a _______ to or result of some environmental
event or ________. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Response & Stimulus
________ are defined as the presentation of a positive or negative stimulus
following a behavior in order to increase the probability of its occurrence. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Reinforcers
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
3
, The stage of development that involves an infant using her/his senses and motor
functions to understand the world is? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Sensorimotor
The two types of Piaget's adaption are? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Assimilation (the
incorporation of an aspect of one's environment into an existing mental schema)
OR
Accommodation (The adaptation or modification of existing mental schema to the
characteristics of a new object).
This type of test of reliability is where research subjects' test scores are compared
with one another using the same test is known as? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Inter-Rater
This type of single-subject design A-B design is know as? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Basic
single systems design
The two phases of N=1 are? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Baseline & Intervention Phase
This cognitive approach technique is used to make the client aware of & continue
the behavior that is causing anxiety (i.e., fear of public speaking) & to provide the
client w/ a sense of control. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Paradoxical Direction (Directive)
