SWG 501 Midterm Exam UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Recognize a definition of social adaptation - CORRECT ANSWER People have to adjust to
many different types of events, traumas, situations or changes in their life.
Recognize definitions of resilience - CORRECT ANSWER Patterns of positive adaptation
during or following significant adversity or risk.
Recognize normative age-graded influences, normative history-graded influences, and non-normative
events. - CORRECT ANSWER -Predictable changes that are tied to a person's age
-Predictable changes that are tied to a particular historical era or period of time also called cohort
effects or period effects
-Things that do not happen to everyone and are not predictable, can be classified as either risk or
protective factors
Recognize an example of a cohort effect - CORRECT ANSWER Refer to influences on a group
of individuals born around the same time who share common historical experiences, like generation
X.
Recognize protective and risk factors - CORRECT ANSWER represent the socially and
culturally defined expectations for how people should behave at a specific point in the life span.
Recognize the meaning of developmental flexibility or plasticity. - CORRECT ANSWER -The
capacity of humans to adapt and thrive in changing environments is related to their capacity for
"developmental flexibility"
-Plasticity, or "the human capacity for change"
, Recognize examples of ethnocentrism and how social workers can avoid it. - CORRECT
ANSWER The tendency to deem the practices of others as immoral, inappropriate, or inferior
based on the values and standard of one's own community.
- The social worker should put their bias away when they meet a client.
Recognize how we can best evaluate cultural values and beliefs - CORRECT ANSWER Social
workers should aim to understand rather than to condone or
discredit the behavior or thinking of others.
Recognize a definition of temperament - CORRECT ANSWER "constitutionally based
individual differences in reactivity and self-regulation, influenced over time by heredity and
experience."
Recognize examples of the social environment - CORRECT ANSWER The people, families,
groups, organizations, and communities within a person's biography unfold
Recognize how ecological systems theory views people - CORRECT ANSWER recognizes that
human beings, like all other
living beings, can be understood only in the context of the systems in which they live.
Recognize the systems included in the Person-In-Environment perspective - CORRECT
ANSWER Micro, Meso, Macro
The individual is impacted by the environment; the environment is likewise impacted by the
individual.
Recognize examples of the micro, meso, exo and macrosystem - CORRECT ANSWER -Micro-
face- to face contact with participants
-Mesosystems-network of personal settings in which we spend our social lives, ex. School, family
-Exosystems- don't directly work with them but they have profound effects on our lives, individuals
are not directly involved, ex. Parents work settings on children
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Recognize a definition of social adaptation - CORRECT ANSWER People have to adjust to
many different types of events, traumas, situations or changes in their life.
Recognize definitions of resilience - CORRECT ANSWER Patterns of positive adaptation
during or following significant adversity or risk.
Recognize normative age-graded influences, normative history-graded influences, and non-normative
events. - CORRECT ANSWER -Predictable changes that are tied to a person's age
-Predictable changes that are tied to a particular historical era or period of time also called cohort
effects or period effects
-Things that do not happen to everyone and are not predictable, can be classified as either risk or
protective factors
Recognize an example of a cohort effect - CORRECT ANSWER Refer to influences on a group
of individuals born around the same time who share common historical experiences, like generation
X.
Recognize protective and risk factors - CORRECT ANSWER represent the socially and
culturally defined expectations for how people should behave at a specific point in the life span.
Recognize the meaning of developmental flexibility or plasticity. - CORRECT ANSWER -The
capacity of humans to adapt and thrive in changing environments is related to their capacity for
"developmental flexibility"
-Plasticity, or "the human capacity for change"
, Recognize examples of ethnocentrism and how social workers can avoid it. - CORRECT
ANSWER The tendency to deem the practices of others as immoral, inappropriate, or inferior
based on the values and standard of one's own community.
- The social worker should put their bias away when they meet a client.
Recognize how we can best evaluate cultural values and beliefs - CORRECT ANSWER Social
workers should aim to understand rather than to condone or
discredit the behavior or thinking of others.
Recognize a definition of temperament - CORRECT ANSWER "constitutionally based
individual differences in reactivity and self-regulation, influenced over time by heredity and
experience."
Recognize examples of the social environment - CORRECT ANSWER The people, families,
groups, organizations, and communities within a person's biography unfold
Recognize how ecological systems theory views people - CORRECT ANSWER recognizes that
human beings, like all other
living beings, can be understood only in the context of the systems in which they live.
Recognize the systems included in the Person-In-Environment perspective - CORRECT
ANSWER Micro, Meso, Macro
The individual is impacted by the environment; the environment is likewise impacted by the
individual.
Recognize examples of the micro, meso, exo and macrosystem - CORRECT ANSWER -Micro-
face- to face contact with participants
-Mesosystems-network of personal settings in which we spend our social lives, ex. School, family
-Exosystems- don't directly work with them but they have profound effects on our lives, individuals
are not directly involved, ex. Parents work settings on children
