ASWB EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Oral stage. Answer: birth-18 months
feeding and organs associated with the function. Focus on receiving and
taking. If fixated here may suffer from schizophrenia or psychotic
derpression.
◉ Anal Stage. Answer: 18 months- 3
Freud's second stage of psychosexual development where the primary
sexual focus is on the elimination or holding onto feces. The stage is
often thought of as representing a child's ability to control his or her own
world. ie: messiness, stubbornness, rebelliousness.
◉ Phallic Stage. Answer: 3-5 years
Freud's third stage of psychosexual development where the primary
sexual focus is on symbolism of genitals. Oedipus conflict takes place in
this stage
◉ Latency Stage. Answer: 5-puberty
fourth stage of psychosexual development, during which sexual
impulses remain latent or dormant. Socialize, education, learning skills
, ◉ Genital Stage. Answer: Puberty til Death
The final psychosexual stage, a time for the coming together of the
mature adult personality with a capacity to love, work, and relate to
others in a mutually satisfying and reciprocal manner
◉ Behavioral Theory. Answer: Focuses on ways in which individuals
learn to associate stress responses with certain situations. People may
also react to specific situations with fear and anxiety because those
situations caused them harm or were stressful in the past
◉ Learning Theory. Answer: Based on the idea that changes in behavior
result more from experience and less from our personality or how we
think or feel about a situation.
◉ Feminist Theory. Answer: A sociological perspective that emphasizes
the centrality of gender in analyzing the social world and particularly the
uniqueness of the experience of women. There are many strands of
feminist theory, but they all share the desire to explain gender
inequalities in society and to work to overcome them.
◉ Cognitive Development. Answer: development of processes of
knowing, including imagining, perceiving, reasoning, and problem
solving, evaluating, understand information.
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Oral stage. Answer: birth-18 months
feeding and organs associated with the function. Focus on receiving and
taking. If fixated here may suffer from schizophrenia or psychotic
derpression.
◉ Anal Stage. Answer: 18 months- 3
Freud's second stage of psychosexual development where the primary
sexual focus is on the elimination or holding onto feces. The stage is
often thought of as representing a child's ability to control his or her own
world. ie: messiness, stubbornness, rebelliousness.
◉ Phallic Stage. Answer: 3-5 years
Freud's third stage of psychosexual development where the primary
sexual focus is on symbolism of genitals. Oedipus conflict takes place in
this stage
◉ Latency Stage. Answer: 5-puberty
fourth stage of psychosexual development, during which sexual
impulses remain latent or dormant. Socialize, education, learning skills
, ◉ Genital Stage. Answer: Puberty til Death
The final psychosexual stage, a time for the coming together of the
mature adult personality with a capacity to love, work, and relate to
others in a mutually satisfying and reciprocal manner
◉ Behavioral Theory. Answer: Focuses on ways in which individuals
learn to associate stress responses with certain situations. People may
also react to specific situations with fear and anxiety because those
situations caused them harm or were stressful in the past
◉ Learning Theory. Answer: Based on the idea that changes in behavior
result more from experience and less from our personality or how we
think or feel about a situation.
◉ Feminist Theory. Answer: A sociological perspective that emphasizes
the centrality of gender in analyzing the social world and particularly the
uniqueness of the experience of women. There are many strands of
feminist theory, but they all share the desire to explain gender
inequalities in society and to work to overcome them.
◉ Cognitive Development. Answer: development of processes of
knowing, including imagining, perceiving, reasoning, and problem
solving, evaluating, understand information.
