ASWB MSW Exam Questions with Correct Answers 100% Pass
positive reinforcement - Answers increasing behaviors by presenting positive reinforcers . Reward pos bx
Negative reinforcement - Answers Negative stimulus removed remove shock
Positive punishment - Answers Undesirable stimulus hitting or shocking
Negative punishment - Answers Removal of desirable stimulus. Take away tokens
Respondent - Answers Involuntary bx Pavlov
Operant - Answers Voluntary bx skinner
Cognitive Theory - Answers Jean Piaget
0-2 - Answers Sensorimotor
2-7 - Answers Preoperational magical thinking and nightmares
7-11 - Answers Concrete operations abstract thought
Formal operations - Answers 11-maturity
Moral development - Answers Kohlberg
stages 1-2 elementary school - Answers Preconventional
Early adolescence stages 3-4 gain approval - Answers Conventional
Adult welfare of others stages 5-6 - Answers Postconventional
Learning theory - Answers Conceptual framework describing how info is absorbed processed and
retained (behaviorists, cognitive, humanistic, social/situational)
Individual psychology - Answers Adler striving for perfection, compensation, cover up sense of inferiority
Self psychology - Answers Entral organizing and motivating force in personality result of receiving
empathetic responses from caretakers early in life (self-objects). Develop self cohension
Validates the child's sense of perfect self - Answers Mirroring self-psychology
Idealization - Answers Child borows strngth from others and identifies eith someone more cspable self
psy
Twinship/twinning - Answers Child needs an alter ego for sense of belonging
Ego psychology - Answers Focuses on rational conscious processes of the ego in the here and now.
Behaves in situation, reality testing, coping and capacity fir relating to others
, Psychosocial dev focuses on how children socialize - Answers Eric Erickson 8 stages
Trust v mistrust - Answers Birth-one trust based on consistency of caregivers
Autonomy v shame-doubt - Answers 1-3 assert independence
initiative v guilt - Answers Erik Erikson's social crisis stage 3, age 3-5.
Industry vs. Inferiority - Answers 6-12 years sense of pride in accomplisments
identity vs. role confusion - Answers Erikson's stage during which teenagers and young adults search for
and become their true selves
intimacy vs isolation - Answers young adulthood-willing to be open about self and commit to a close
personal relationship
Generativity vs. Stagnation - Answers Middle Adulthood
ego integrity vs despair - Answers during later life-has one led a satisfied life
object relations theory - Answers Mahler relationships with others strongly rooted in early attachments
Normal autism - Answers 0-1
Normal Symbiotic Phase - Answers until 5 mo. - aware of mother but not individualized - Mahler Sep. /
Indivi. Theory
Separation/individuation phase - Answers 5-9 mo
Practicing - Answers 9-15 mo
Rapprochement - Answers 15-24 mo physical mobility can dev fear of abondonment
object constancy phase - Answers 24-38 mo child and mother have separate identity
Person In Environment Perspective - Answers Ct as part of an environmental system and encompasses
all influences, client centered
defense mechanisms - Answers mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful
emotions and situations
Devaluation - Answers BPD exageratted negative qualities to self or others
Idealization - Answers Admiring someone so much that you see them as perfect
Introjection - Answers Incorporation of values or qualities of an admired person or group into one's own
ego structure
Projection - Answers Attributing one's own thoughts, feelings, or motives to another.
positive reinforcement - Answers increasing behaviors by presenting positive reinforcers . Reward pos bx
Negative reinforcement - Answers Negative stimulus removed remove shock
Positive punishment - Answers Undesirable stimulus hitting or shocking
Negative punishment - Answers Removal of desirable stimulus. Take away tokens
Respondent - Answers Involuntary bx Pavlov
Operant - Answers Voluntary bx skinner
Cognitive Theory - Answers Jean Piaget
0-2 - Answers Sensorimotor
2-7 - Answers Preoperational magical thinking and nightmares
7-11 - Answers Concrete operations abstract thought
Formal operations - Answers 11-maturity
Moral development - Answers Kohlberg
stages 1-2 elementary school - Answers Preconventional
Early adolescence stages 3-4 gain approval - Answers Conventional
Adult welfare of others stages 5-6 - Answers Postconventional
Learning theory - Answers Conceptual framework describing how info is absorbed processed and
retained (behaviorists, cognitive, humanistic, social/situational)
Individual psychology - Answers Adler striving for perfection, compensation, cover up sense of inferiority
Self psychology - Answers Entral organizing and motivating force in personality result of receiving
empathetic responses from caretakers early in life (self-objects). Develop self cohension
Validates the child's sense of perfect self - Answers Mirroring self-psychology
Idealization - Answers Child borows strngth from others and identifies eith someone more cspable self
psy
Twinship/twinning - Answers Child needs an alter ego for sense of belonging
Ego psychology - Answers Focuses on rational conscious processes of the ego in the here and now.
Behaves in situation, reality testing, coping and capacity fir relating to others
, Psychosocial dev focuses on how children socialize - Answers Eric Erickson 8 stages
Trust v mistrust - Answers Birth-one trust based on consistency of caregivers
Autonomy v shame-doubt - Answers 1-3 assert independence
initiative v guilt - Answers Erik Erikson's social crisis stage 3, age 3-5.
Industry vs. Inferiority - Answers 6-12 years sense of pride in accomplisments
identity vs. role confusion - Answers Erikson's stage during which teenagers and young adults search for
and become their true selves
intimacy vs isolation - Answers young adulthood-willing to be open about self and commit to a close
personal relationship
Generativity vs. Stagnation - Answers Middle Adulthood
ego integrity vs despair - Answers during later life-has one led a satisfied life
object relations theory - Answers Mahler relationships with others strongly rooted in early attachments
Normal autism - Answers 0-1
Normal Symbiotic Phase - Answers until 5 mo. - aware of mother but not individualized - Mahler Sep. /
Indivi. Theory
Separation/individuation phase - Answers 5-9 mo
Practicing - Answers 9-15 mo
Rapprochement - Answers 15-24 mo physical mobility can dev fear of abondonment
object constancy phase - Answers 24-38 mo child and mother have separate identity
Person In Environment Perspective - Answers Ct as part of an environmental system and encompasses
all influences, client centered
defense mechanisms - Answers mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful
emotions and situations
Devaluation - Answers BPD exageratted negative qualities to self or others
Idealization - Answers Admiring someone so much that you see them as perfect
Introjection - Answers Incorporation of values or qualities of an admired person or group into one's own
ego structure
Projection - Answers Attributing one's own thoughts, feelings, or motives to another.
