SOCIAL WORK COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (GRADED
A+)
Which of the following approaches proposes that the superego is the personality
structure that guides moral development?
A. Social learning approach
B. Behavioral developmental approach
C. Psychodynamic approach
D. Cognitive developmental approach - ANSWER-C. Psychodynamic approach
A __________________ is a set of persons who were born at the same historical time
and who experience particular social changes within a given culture in the same
sequence and age.
Support group
Class
Cohort
Subsystem - ANSWER-Cohort
________ is the ability of an individual, family, group, community or organization to
recover from adversity and resume functioning even when suffering serious trouble,
confusion, or hardship.
Transitions
Adaptation
Strength
Resilience - ANSWER-Resilience
This perspective emphasizes the importance of relationships between systems within
an environment and considers how the environment affects human development,
interaction, and quality of life.
,Sociopsychological perspective
Human ecology perspective
Theoretical community perspective
Structural perspective - ANSWER-Human ecology perspective
A primary goal within the area of Social Work is that of empowering people. The
concept of empowerment in social work is defined as _________.
None of the above
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or financial resources of individuals to help them
take action to improve their situations
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or political power so that individuals can take action
to improve their situations
Increasing client political power and financial resources to improve their situations -
ANSWER-Increasing personal, interpersonal, or political power so that individuals can
take action to improve their situations
According to Mary Ainsworth's theory of attachment, when a child uses the mother as a
home base and feels comfortable leaving this base to explore their environment. This is
considered to be which of the following types of attachment?
Avoidant attachment
Secure attachment
Positive attachment
Anxious attachment - ANSWER-Secure attachment
Which of the following approaches proposes that behavior is shaped by environmental
reinforcements and punishments?
Behavioral developmental approach
Psychodynamic approach
Cognitive developmental approach
Social learning approach - ANSWER-Social learning approach
,__________ begins with the idea that development is a lifelong process and is based
on the ongoing transactions between persons and environments.
Life Span theory
Moral Development theory
Gain-Loss theory
Life Stages theory - ANSWER-Life Span theory
Erikson theorized that people in middle adulthood experience psychosocial struggles.
According to his model of psychosocial development this is known as the crisis of:
Intimacy versus isolation
Generativity versus stagnation
Ego integrity versus despair
Identity versus role diffusion - ANSWER-Generativity versus stagnation
1 pts
Carl Levinson suggests that as individuals enter middle adulthood, they experience two
central components of the life structure which impacts them most. These components
are:
Occupation and education
Family and occupation
Employment and health
Parenting and finances - ANSWER-Family and occupation
Entering older adulthood will be accompanied by changes in developmental tasks to
include all of the following, EXCEPT:
Synergistic interaction
Reappraising personal values
Continuing social and civic responsibilities
, Maintaining interest in friends and family ties - ANSWER-Continuing social and civic
responsibilities
In this stage within Piaget's cognitive development, children begin to think logically on a
concrete level, begin to develop the capacity to think from other points of view, and the
child develops the ability to conceptualize in terms of reversibility.
Sensorimotor Stage
Preoperational Stage
Concrete Operational Stage
Formal Operational Stage - ANSWER-Concrete Operational Stage
_________ is the systematic denial of access to assets, economic opportunities,
associations, and organizations based on minority status.
Institutional racism
Resource diffusion
Socialism
Capitalism - ANSWER-Institutional racism
This perspective focuses on how chronological age, relationships, common life
transitions and social change shape people's lives from birth to death.
Life course perspective
Person-in-environment perspective
Developmental perspective
Identity development perspective - ANSWER-Life course perspective
According to Kohlberg's stages of moral development, in the postconventional stage
greater emphasis is placed on contemplation of ethical principles and the development
of a _________.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (GRADED
A+)
Which of the following approaches proposes that the superego is the personality
structure that guides moral development?
A. Social learning approach
B. Behavioral developmental approach
C. Psychodynamic approach
D. Cognitive developmental approach - ANSWER-C. Psychodynamic approach
A __________________ is a set of persons who were born at the same historical time
and who experience particular social changes within a given culture in the same
sequence and age.
Support group
Class
Cohort
Subsystem - ANSWER-Cohort
________ is the ability of an individual, family, group, community or organization to
recover from adversity and resume functioning even when suffering serious trouble,
confusion, or hardship.
Transitions
Adaptation
Strength
Resilience - ANSWER-Resilience
This perspective emphasizes the importance of relationships between systems within
an environment and considers how the environment affects human development,
interaction, and quality of life.
,Sociopsychological perspective
Human ecology perspective
Theoretical community perspective
Structural perspective - ANSWER-Human ecology perspective
A primary goal within the area of Social Work is that of empowering people. The
concept of empowerment in social work is defined as _________.
None of the above
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or financial resources of individuals to help them
take action to improve their situations
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or political power so that individuals can take action
to improve their situations
Increasing client political power and financial resources to improve their situations -
ANSWER-Increasing personal, interpersonal, or political power so that individuals can
take action to improve their situations
According to Mary Ainsworth's theory of attachment, when a child uses the mother as a
home base and feels comfortable leaving this base to explore their environment. This is
considered to be which of the following types of attachment?
Avoidant attachment
Secure attachment
Positive attachment
Anxious attachment - ANSWER-Secure attachment
Which of the following approaches proposes that behavior is shaped by environmental
reinforcements and punishments?
Behavioral developmental approach
Psychodynamic approach
Cognitive developmental approach
Social learning approach - ANSWER-Social learning approach
,__________ begins with the idea that development is a lifelong process and is based
on the ongoing transactions between persons and environments.
Life Span theory
Moral Development theory
Gain-Loss theory
Life Stages theory - ANSWER-Life Span theory
Erikson theorized that people in middle adulthood experience psychosocial struggles.
According to his model of psychosocial development this is known as the crisis of:
Intimacy versus isolation
Generativity versus stagnation
Ego integrity versus despair
Identity versus role diffusion - ANSWER-Generativity versus stagnation
1 pts
Carl Levinson suggests that as individuals enter middle adulthood, they experience two
central components of the life structure which impacts them most. These components
are:
Occupation and education
Family and occupation
Employment and health
Parenting and finances - ANSWER-Family and occupation
Entering older adulthood will be accompanied by changes in developmental tasks to
include all of the following, EXCEPT:
Synergistic interaction
Reappraising personal values
Continuing social and civic responsibilities
, Maintaining interest in friends and family ties - ANSWER-Continuing social and civic
responsibilities
In this stage within Piaget's cognitive development, children begin to think logically on a
concrete level, begin to develop the capacity to think from other points of view, and the
child develops the ability to conceptualize in terms of reversibility.
Sensorimotor Stage
Preoperational Stage
Concrete Operational Stage
Formal Operational Stage - ANSWER-Concrete Operational Stage
_________ is the systematic denial of access to assets, economic opportunities,
associations, and organizations based on minority status.
Institutional racism
Resource diffusion
Socialism
Capitalism - ANSWER-Institutional racism
This perspective focuses on how chronological age, relationships, common life
transitions and social change shape people's lives from birth to death.
Life course perspective
Person-in-environment perspective
Developmental perspective
Identity development perspective - ANSWER-Life course perspective
According to Kohlberg's stages of moral development, in the postconventional stage
greater emphasis is placed on contemplation of ethical principles and the development
of a _________.
