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LCSW test questions with accurate detailed solutions || || || || || ||
Taking into consideration that the common feature of the somatoform disorders is the
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presence of physical symptoms that suggest a general medical condition, what of the
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following statements regarding Factitious Disorders is incorrect?
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A. Malingering and Factitious Disorder both involve the intentional production
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B. In Factitious Disorder, panic attacks are often mistaken for heart attacks
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C. In Malingering, the individual has an external incentive (money, getting out of work,
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etc.) that he/she hopes to achieve by his/her presentation
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D. In Factitious Disorder, there is no apparent external motivation for the faking other than
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to receive medical attention. - ✔✔Answer: B
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Explanation: Panic attack: panic attacks are often mistaken for heart attacks, and medical
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assessment of cardiovascular status should be completed before beginning a
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psychologically-based intervention for panic symptoms. (no reference to Factitious || || || || || || || || ||
Disorder/ Malingering Disorder). || ||
If Cathersis is the process by which sources of energy are tied to thoughts, actions, objects,
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or people, what is the source of all basic drives as people progress through the stages of life?
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A. mental energy
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B. chemical rebound
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C. physiologic energy
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D. biological energy - ✔✔Answer: D
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Explanation: Biological energy is the source of all basic drives as people progress through
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the stages of life.
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Luke spends 16 hours a day practicing for a big game and as a result he neglects his wife
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and children quite often. According to Freud's System of Personality, what part of the
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personality system (process) is responsible for the guilty feelings that result from the
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violation of the standards and morals set?|| || || || || ||
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A. Id ||
B. Ego||
C. Libido ||
D. Superego - ✔✔Answer: D
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Explanation: Guilty feelings result from a violation of the standards and morals set by the
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superego.
7. A topographical concept states that the personality has a conscious mind, a preconscious
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mind, and an unconscious mind. By what stage is the human personality determined?
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A. In the adolescence
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B. When a person is 21
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C. In the first five years of life
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D. When a person is 18 - ✔✔Answer: C
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Explanation: As a stage theorist, Freud postulated that the human personality is determined
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in the most critical years of personal development - the first five years of life.
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8. If a person can not pass emotionally from oral to anal stage, because of what factor is the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
emotional development "stuck"? || ||
A. The person didn't received the needed affection
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B. The cathexis was not strong enough
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C. The person has experienced too much pain
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D. The fixation was not intense enough - ✔✔Answer: C
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Explanation: taking into consideration that a person experiences either too much pain || || || || || || || || || || || ||
(trauma) or too much pleasure at any given stage, he/she may resist letting go of that stage.
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Cognitive and physical development occurs, but emotional development is "stuck".
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16. During the embryonic (second through eighth weeks) and fetal stages (last seven
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months on average) of pregnancy, maternal characteristics and external environmental
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forces (teratogens) have a major effect on the baby's development. What future mothers are
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in high risk of giving birth to a child with Down syndrome?
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A. Mothers over 30
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B. Adolescent mothers
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C. Mothers over 22
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D. Mothers over 27 - ✔✔Answer: A
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Explanation: Mothers over 30 have an increased risk of delivering a Down syndrome baby.
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Also, infertility rates increase.
|| || ||
If maturity is the living out of the results of the pre-genital (oral, anal, and phallic) and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
genital stages, what is specific for the oral stage?
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A. The first experience of "imposed control"
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B. Pleasure is derived from nursing and sucking
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C. Pleasure is derived from fondling genitals
|| || || || || ||
D. Children observe the differences between males and females - ✔✔Answer: B
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Explanation: Oral stage (0-2 years): Pleasure is derived from nursing and sucking. Infants
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will put everything into their mouths.
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Taking into consideration that a 17 years old boy has a 50-70 Iq score, what type of mental
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
retardation is he suffering of and is it curable/educable?
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A. Mild/educable
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B. Moderate/trainable
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C. Severe, incurable
|| ||
D. Moderate, educable - ✔✔Answer: D
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Explanation: With a 50-70 IQ score, a person suffers of Mild mental retardation and it is
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educable.
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Taking into consideration that MOTIVATION is the social or psychological condition that
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directs one's behavior toward a certain goal, how can be the PHOBIA defined?
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A. strong, irrational fear of a specific object or situation
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B. the branch of medicine dealing with the classification of disease
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C. "slave" state which occurs as an inevitable accompaniment
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D. the course of development of an organism or an individual - ✔✔Answer: A
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Explanation: Phobia - a strong, irrational fear of a specific object or situation. Note that
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anxiety, on the other hand, is considered more generalized and without a known cause.
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Taking into consideration that the Psychodynamic (Psychoanalytic) Model explains
|| || || || || || || || ||
abnormality in terms of internal (intrapsychic, unconscious) dynamics at work within the
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
individual, which of the following statements refers to Behavioral (Learning Theory)
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Model?
A. the cognitive-behavioral position emphasizes the role of mental factors to explain
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
abnormality, primarily through cognitive distortions (Beck) or irrational thinking (Ellis)
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B. abnormality in terms of internal dynamics at work within the individual
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C. the human being as an organism made up of numerous biologic and biochemical systems
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which are primarily responsible for determining adjustment, behavior, and disorders
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D. Applies the laws of learning, motivation, and conditioning to explain abnormality in
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terms of behavioral excesses and deficits. - ✔✔Answer: D
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Explanation: Behavioral (Learning Theory) Model: applies the laws of learning, motivation,
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and conditioning to explain abnormality in terms of behavioral excesses and deficits.
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Exposure of a developing embryo or fetus to certain environmental factors can damage the
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developing organism or even cause death. What impact does the cigarette use of the mother
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have on the child?
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A. reduced muscle tone
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B. intelligence deficit
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C. lower birth weights and pre-term births
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LCSW test questions with accurate detailed solutions || || || || || ||
Taking into consideration that the common feature of the somatoform disorders is the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
presence of physical symptoms that suggest a general medical condition, what of the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
following statements regarding Factitious Disorders is incorrect?
|| || || || || ||
A. Malingering and Factitious Disorder both involve the intentional production
|| || || || || || || || ||
B. In Factitious Disorder, panic attacks are often mistaken for heart attacks
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
C. In Malingering, the individual has an external incentive (money, getting out of work,
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
etc.) that he/she hopes to achieve by his/her presentation
|| || || || || || || ||
D. In Factitious Disorder, there is no apparent external motivation for the faking other than
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
to receive medical attention. - ✔✔Answer: B
|| || || || || ||
Explanation: Panic attack: panic attacks are often mistaken for heart attacks, and medical
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
assessment of cardiovascular status should be completed before beginning a
|| || || || || || || || || ||
psychologically-based intervention for panic symptoms. (no reference to Factitious || || || || || || || || ||
Disorder/ Malingering Disorder). || ||
If Cathersis is the process by which sources of energy are tied to thoughts, actions, objects,
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
or people, what is the source of all basic drives as people progress through the stages of life?
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
A. mental energy
|| ||
B. chemical rebound
|| ||
C. physiologic energy
|| ||
D. biological energy - ✔✔Answer: D
|| || || || ||
Explanation: Biological energy is the source of all basic drives as people progress through
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
the stages of life.
|| || ||
Luke spends 16 hours a day practicing for a big game and as a result he neglects his wife
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
and children quite often. According to Freud's System of Personality, what part of the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
personality system (process) is responsible for the guilty feelings that result from the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
violation of the standards and morals set?|| || || || || ||
,2
A. Id ||
B. Ego||
C. Libido ||
D. Superego - ✔✔Answer: D
|| || || ||
Explanation: Guilty feelings result from a violation of the standards and morals set by the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
superego.
7. A topographical concept states that the personality has a conscious mind, a preconscious
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
mind, and an unconscious mind. By what stage is the human personality determined?
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
A. In the adolescence
|| || ||
B. When a person is 21
|| || || || ||
C. In the first five years of life
|| || || || || || ||
D. When a person is 18 - ✔✔Answer: C
|| || || || || || || ||
Explanation: As a stage theorist, Freud postulated that the human personality is determined
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
in the most critical years of personal development - the first five years of life.
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
8. If a person can not pass emotionally from oral to anal stage, because of what factor is the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
emotional development "stuck"? || ||
A. The person didn't received the needed affection
|| || || || || || ||
B. The cathexis was not strong enough
|| || || || || || ||
C. The person has experienced too much pain
|| || || || || || ||
D. The fixation was not intense enough - ✔✔Answer: C
|| || || || || || || || ||
Explanation: taking into consideration that a person experiences either too much pain || || || || || || || || || || || ||
(trauma) or too much pleasure at any given stage, he/she may resist letting go of that stage.
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Cognitive and physical development occurs, but emotional development is "stuck".
|| || || || || || || || ||
16. During the embryonic (second through eighth weeks) and fetal stages (last seven
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
months on average) of pregnancy, maternal characteristics and external environmental
|| || || || || || || || || ||
,2
forces (teratogens) have a major effect on the baby's development. What future mothers are
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
in high risk of giving birth to a child with Down syndrome?
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
A. Mothers over 30
|| || || ||
B. Adolescent mothers
|| ||
C. Mothers over 22
|| || ||
D. Mothers over 27 - ✔✔Answer: A
|| || || || || ||
Explanation: Mothers over 30 have an increased risk of delivering a Down syndrome baby.
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Also, infertility rates increase.
|| || ||
If maturity is the living out of the results of the pre-genital (oral, anal, and phallic) and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
genital stages, what is specific for the oral stage?
|| || || || || || || ||
A. The first experience of "imposed control"
|| || || || || ||
B. Pleasure is derived from nursing and sucking
|| || || || || || ||
C. Pleasure is derived from fondling genitals
|| || || || || ||
D. Children observe the differences between males and females - ✔✔Answer: B
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Explanation: Oral stage (0-2 years): Pleasure is derived from nursing and sucking. Infants
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
will put everything into their mouths.
|| || || || ||
Taking into consideration that a 17 years old boy has a 50-70 Iq score, what type of mental
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
retardation is he suffering of and is it curable/educable?
|| || || || || || || ||
A. Mild/educable
||
B. Moderate/trainable
||
C. Severe, incurable
|| ||
D. Moderate, educable - ✔✔Answer: D
|| || || || ||
Explanation: With a 50-70 IQ score, a person suffers of Mild mental retardation and it is
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
educable.
, 2
Taking into consideration that MOTIVATION is the social or psychological condition that
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
directs one's behavior toward a certain goal, how can be the PHOBIA defined?
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
A. strong, irrational fear of a specific object or situation
|| || || || || || || || ||
B. the branch of medicine dealing with the classification of disease
|| || || || || || || || || ||
C. "slave" state which occurs as an inevitable accompaniment
|| || || || || || || ||
D. the course of development of an organism or an individual - ✔✔Answer: A
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Explanation: Phobia - a strong, irrational fear of a specific object or situation. Note that
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
anxiety, on the other hand, is considered more generalized and without a known cause.
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Taking into consideration that the Psychodynamic (Psychoanalytic) Model explains
|| || || || || || || || ||
abnormality in terms of internal (intrapsychic, unconscious) dynamics at work within the
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
individual, which of the following statements refers to Behavioral (Learning Theory)
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Model?
A. the cognitive-behavioral position emphasizes the role of mental factors to explain
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
abnormality, primarily through cognitive distortions (Beck) or irrational thinking (Ellis)
|| || || || || || || || ||
B. abnormality in terms of internal dynamics at work within the individual
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
C. the human being as an organism made up of numerous biologic and biochemical systems
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
which are primarily responsible for determining adjustment, behavior, and disorders
|| || || || || || || || || ||
D. Applies the laws of learning, motivation, and conditioning to explain abnormality in
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
terms of behavioral excesses and deficits. - ✔✔Answer: D
|| || || || || || || ||
Explanation: Behavioral (Learning Theory) Model: applies the laws of learning, motivation,
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
and conditioning to explain abnormality in terms of behavioral excesses and deficits.
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Exposure of a developing embryo or fetus to certain environmental factors can damage the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
developing organism or even cause death. What impact does the cigarette use of the mother
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
have on the child?
|| || ||
A. reduced muscle tone
|| || ||
B. intelligence deficit
|| ||
C. lower birth weights and pre-term births
|| || || || || ||
