Prepare for the ASWB social work licensing exam with these flashcard questions and answers. This covers ethics, human development, assessment, and intervention strategies.
Q: Psychosexual development theory
Answer: Individual is motivated by innate drives and instincts toward a pleasure and immediate gratification. Individual matures and transforms through various stages. If adult resolves conflicts in the stages then they will be free of psychic pathology, but if not they may suffer from emotional problems.
Q: Oral stage
Answer: birth-18 monthsfeeding and organs associated with the function. Focus on receiving and taking. If fixated here may suffer from schizophrenia or psychotic derpression.
Q: Anal Stage
Answer: 18 months- 3Freud’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.
Q: Phallic Stage
Answer: 3-5 yearsFreud’s third stage of psychosexual development where the primary sexual focus is on symbolism of genitals. Oedipus conflict takes place in this stage
Q: Latency Stage
Answer: 5-pubertyfourth stage of psychosexual development, during which sexual impulses remain latent or dormant. Socialize, education, learning skills
Q: Genital Stage
Answer: Puberty til DeathThe 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
Q: 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
Q: 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.
Q: 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.
Q: Cognitive Development
Answer: development of processes of knowing, including imagining, perceiving, reasoning, and problem solving, evaluating, understand information.
Q: Piaget’s theory
Answer: States that children actively construct their understanding of the world and go through four stages of cognitive development
Q: Sesorimotor Period
Answer: piaget’s first stage- (0-2 years) during which the infant experiences the world through senses and action patterns; progresses from reflexes to object permanence and symbolic thinking
Q: Preoperational Thought Stage
Answer: Piaget’s phase of child development during the period of 2 to 7 years of age, when the child focuses on the use of language as a tool. The child has the emerging ability to reason.
Q: Concrete Operations Stage
Answer: Piaget’s third stage of cognitive development (ages 6-11 or 12), during which a child acquires the concepts of reversibility and conservation and is able to attend to 2 or more dimensions of a stimulus at the same time
Q: Formal Operations Stage
Answer: Piaget’s fourth and final stage of cognitive development (ages 11 or 12 and beyond), which is characterized by the ability to apply logical thinking to abstract problems and hypothetical situations
Q: Egocentrism
Answer: in Piaget’s theory, the preoperational child’s difficulty taking another’s point of view
Q: Centration
Answer: a preoperational thought pattern involving the inability to take into account more than one factor at a time ex:when child is thirsty, they will want to drink out of a big glass because they think it holds more juice
Q: Irreversibilty
Answer: the inability in a preoperational child to think through a series of event or mental operations then mentally reverse the steps
Q: Classification
Answer: the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
Q: Seriation
Answer: arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect, such as size, weight, or volume
Q: Conservation
Answer: The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects.
Q: Erikson’s psychosocial theory
Answer: personality develops through confronting a series of eight major psychosocial stages, each of which involves a different “crisis” over how we view ourselves in relation to other people and the world
Q: Basic trust vs mistrust
Answer: Erikson, birth- 18 months, the infant must form a first loving, trusting relationship with the caregiver or develop a sense of mistrust
Q: Autonomy vs shame and doubt
Answer: Erikson’s second stage, in which a child aged 2 – 3 years must begin to regulate some behavior, taking some personal responsibility for feeding, dressing and bathing. The child will develop a sense of self-sufficiency or a sense of personal shame and self-doubt depending on whether his efforts are met with approval or dissatisfaction.
Q: Generativity vs stagnation
Answer: Erikson’s seventh stage. From age 40 – 65, adults need to express their caring about future generations by guiding/mentoring others or producing creative work that enriches the lives of others. Failing this, people become stagnant and preoccupied with their own needs and comforts.
Q: Paranoid
Answer: Exhibiting or characterized by extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others
Q: Schizoid
Answer: Detached from and lack of enjoyment in social relationships, socially isolated, celibate, emotionally restricted
Q: Schizotypal
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