STUDY GUIDE FOR BSW LICENSURE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
3 Psychological Perspectives - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Psychodynamic
- Cognitive Development
- Learning Theories
Psychodynamic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Freud
- ego psychology
- object relations
- self psychology
Cognitive Development - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Piaget
- Kohlberg
Learning Theories - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- classical conditioning
- operant conditioning
- social learning
Psychoanalytic Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Freud
- looked at 2 dimensions of the mind:
1) The conscious, preconscious, unconscious
2) The id (primitive, unconscious), ego (rational part of the mind), superego (conscience)
- no longer current in swk practice, but his influence is still felt in concepts such as unconscious, ego
strength, defense and coping mechanisms
Ego Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Anna Freud, Heinz Hartman
- examines such issues as ego defenses, coping mechanisms, ego strength
- acquired ego functions come from conflict between the child's id wishes and the environment
- thus, ego functions dominated by drives and pleasure principle and primary-process thinking
, Object Relations - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- the study of attitudes people hold toward others and how
they influence social behavior
Transference - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- redirection of client's feelings from a significant person to the
social worker
Countertransference - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- redirection of social worker's feeling toward a client
Theory of Cognitive Development - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Piaget
- believed that all people learn to think the same way
- 4 Stages of Development:
1) Sensorimotor Period - birth to 2 years
2) Preoperational Thought - ages 2 to 7
3) Concrete Operations - ages 7 to 11/12
4) Formal Operations - ages 11/12 to 16
Sensorimotor Period - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Piaget's theory
- birth to about 2 years
- child has not yet achieved object permanence.
Preoperational Thought - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Piaget's second stage of cognitive development
- ages 2 through 7
- as the child learns language, symbolic play, and symbolic drawing, but does not grasp abstract
concepts.
Concrete Operations - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Piaget
- about 7 - 11 years of age
- children learn such concepts as conservation and mathematical transformations
3 Psychological Perspectives - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Psychodynamic
- Cognitive Development
- Learning Theories
Psychodynamic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Freud
- ego psychology
- object relations
- self psychology
Cognitive Development - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Piaget
- Kohlberg
Learning Theories - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- classical conditioning
- operant conditioning
- social learning
Psychoanalytic Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Freud
- looked at 2 dimensions of the mind:
1) The conscious, preconscious, unconscious
2) The id (primitive, unconscious), ego (rational part of the mind), superego (conscience)
- no longer current in swk practice, but his influence is still felt in concepts such as unconscious, ego
strength, defense and coping mechanisms
Ego Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Anna Freud, Heinz Hartman
- examines such issues as ego defenses, coping mechanisms, ego strength
- acquired ego functions come from conflict between the child's id wishes and the environment
- thus, ego functions dominated by drives and pleasure principle and primary-process thinking
, Object Relations - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- the study of attitudes people hold toward others and how
they influence social behavior
Transference - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- redirection of client's feelings from a significant person to the
social worker
Countertransference - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- redirection of social worker's feeling toward a client
Theory of Cognitive Development - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Piaget
- believed that all people learn to think the same way
- 4 Stages of Development:
1) Sensorimotor Period - birth to 2 years
2) Preoperational Thought - ages 2 to 7
3) Concrete Operations - ages 7 to 11/12
4) Formal Operations - ages 11/12 to 16
Sensorimotor Period - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Piaget's theory
- birth to about 2 years
- child has not yet achieved object permanence.
Preoperational Thought - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Piaget's second stage of cognitive development
- ages 2 through 7
- as the child learns language, symbolic play, and symbolic drawing, but does not grasp abstract
concepts.
Concrete Operations - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Piaget
- about 7 - 11 years of age
- children learn such concepts as conservation and mathematical transformations
