BSW License Exam Study Guide |
Questions with 100% Correct Answers (A
Rated)
Infancy - ANSWER Trust versus Mistrust, Maternal persons
Early Childhood - ANSWER Autonomy versus Shame and Doubt, Parental persons
Play Age - ANSWER Initiative versus Guilt, Family
School Age - ANSWER Industry versus Inferiority, Neighborhood
Adolescence - ANSWER Identity versus identity diffusion, Peers
Young Adulthood - ANSWER Intimacy versus Isolation, Partners
Adulthood - ANSWER Generativity versus Self absorption, Household
Mature Age - ANSWER Integrity versus Disgust and Despair, Humanity
Microsystems - ANSWER Systems that involve direct face to face contact between members.
Mesosystems - ANSWER Networks of microsystems of a given person.
,Exosystems - ANSWER The linkages between microsystems and larger institutions that affect
the system such as the family system and the parent's workplace or the family system and
the child's school.
Macrosystems - ANSWER The broader influences of culture, subculture, and social structure.
Assumptions - ANSWER Beliefs held to be true without testing or proof, about the nature
of human social life.
Biopsychosocial approach - ANSWER Human behavior is considered to be the result of
interactions of integrated biological, psychological, and social systems. Psychology is seen as
inseparable from biology; emotions and cognition affect the health of the body and are affected
by it. Increasingly, neurobiologist write about the "social brain", recognizing that the human
brain is wired for social life but also recognizing that the social environment has an impact on
brain structure and processes.
Concepts - ANSWER
Constants - ANSWER Move invariably in one direction; the aging process.
Constructivist Perspective - ANSWER
Deductive Reasoning - ANSWER Meaning that theories lay out general, abstract
propositions that we can use to generate specific hypothesis to test in unique situations.
Determinism - ANSWER Human behavior determined by forces beyond the control of
the person.
Dimension - ANSWER Refers to a feature that can be focused on separately but that cannot
be understood without also considering other features.
, Diversity - ANSWER
Empirical Research - ANSWER A careful, purposeful, and systematic observation of events with
the intent to note and record them in terms of their attributes, to look for patterns in those
events, and to make our methods and observations public.
Heterogeneity - ANSWER Refers to individual level orientation differences among individuals.
Hypothesis - ANSWER Tentative statements, to be explored and tested, not facts to be
applied, in transactions with the person.
Interpretist Perspective - ANSWER Assumption that reality is based on people's definitions of it
and research should focus on learning the meanings that people give to their situations. Also
referred to as constructivist perspective.
Life Course Perspective - ANSWER Assumes that each person's life has a unique long-term
pattern of stability and change but that shared social and historical contexts produce some
commonalities.
Life Events - ANSWER Brief events or incidents; they may produce shifts and have serious and
long-lasting effects.
Multi-determined - ANSWER Human behavior is developed as a result of many causes.
Multidimensional Approach - ANSWER Thinking about human behavior as changing
configurations of person and environment over time.
Objective Reality - ANSWER Dimensions of human behavior that exist outside of a person's
consciousness.
Questions with 100% Correct Answers (A
Rated)
Infancy - ANSWER Trust versus Mistrust, Maternal persons
Early Childhood - ANSWER Autonomy versus Shame and Doubt, Parental persons
Play Age - ANSWER Initiative versus Guilt, Family
School Age - ANSWER Industry versus Inferiority, Neighborhood
Adolescence - ANSWER Identity versus identity diffusion, Peers
Young Adulthood - ANSWER Intimacy versus Isolation, Partners
Adulthood - ANSWER Generativity versus Self absorption, Household
Mature Age - ANSWER Integrity versus Disgust and Despair, Humanity
Microsystems - ANSWER Systems that involve direct face to face contact between members.
Mesosystems - ANSWER Networks of microsystems of a given person.
,Exosystems - ANSWER The linkages between microsystems and larger institutions that affect
the system such as the family system and the parent's workplace or the family system and
the child's school.
Macrosystems - ANSWER The broader influences of culture, subculture, and social structure.
Assumptions - ANSWER Beliefs held to be true without testing or proof, about the nature
of human social life.
Biopsychosocial approach - ANSWER Human behavior is considered to be the result of
interactions of integrated biological, psychological, and social systems. Psychology is seen as
inseparable from biology; emotions and cognition affect the health of the body and are affected
by it. Increasingly, neurobiologist write about the "social brain", recognizing that the human
brain is wired for social life but also recognizing that the social environment has an impact on
brain structure and processes.
Concepts - ANSWER
Constants - ANSWER Move invariably in one direction; the aging process.
Constructivist Perspective - ANSWER
Deductive Reasoning - ANSWER Meaning that theories lay out general, abstract
propositions that we can use to generate specific hypothesis to test in unique situations.
Determinism - ANSWER Human behavior determined by forces beyond the control of
the person.
Dimension - ANSWER Refers to a feature that can be focused on separately but that cannot
be understood without also considering other features.
, Diversity - ANSWER
Empirical Research - ANSWER A careful, purposeful, and systematic observation of events with
the intent to note and record them in terms of their attributes, to look for patterns in those
events, and to make our methods and observations public.
Heterogeneity - ANSWER Refers to individual level orientation differences among individuals.
Hypothesis - ANSWER Tentative statements, to be explored and tested, not facts to be
applied, in transactions with the person.
Interpretist Perspective - ANSWER Assumption that reality is based on people's definitions of it
and research should focus on learning the meanings that people give to their situations. Also
referred to as constructivist perspective.
Life Course Perspective - ANSWER Assumes that each person's life has a unique long-term
pattern of stability and change but that shared social and historical contexts produce some
commonalities.
Life Events - ANSWER Brief events or incidents; they may produce shifts and have serious and
long-lasting effects.
Multi-determined - ANSWER Human behavior is developed as a result of many causes.
Multidimensional Approach - ANSWER Thinking about human behavior as changing
configurations of person and environment over time.
Objective Reality - ANSWER Dimensions of human behavior that exist outside of a person's
consciousness.
