LMSW Exam Questions with Detailed Verified
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psychoanalytic theory
✓✓ A theory in which the client is seen as the product of his
past and treatment involves dealing with the repressed material
in the unconscious.
Conscious
Preconscious
Subconscious
✓✓ Freud believed that behavior and personality derive from
the constant and unique interaction of conflicting psychological
forces that operate at three different levels of awareness. What
are they?
Conscious
✓✓ Contains all the information that a client is paying
attention to at any given time
Preconscious
✓✓ Contains all of the information outside of a client's
attention but readily available if needed -- thoughts and feelings
that can be brought into consciousness easily
Unconscious
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✓✓ Contains thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories of
which clients have no awareness but that influence every aspect
of their day-to-day lives
Id, ego, superego
✓✓ Freud proposed that personalities have three components.
What are they?
Id
✓✓ A component of personalities that is a reservoir of
instinctual energy that contains biological urges such as
impulses toward survival, sex, and aggression
Ego
✓✓ A component of personalities that manages the conflict
between the id and the constraints of the real world.
pleasure principle
✓✓ The drive to achieve pleasure and avoid pain
reality principle
✓✓ The awareness that gratification of impulses has to be
delayed in order to accommodate the demands of the real world
Ego-syntonic
✓✓ A term indicating that a client's behaviors are in sync with
the ego. (no guilt)
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Ego-dystonic
✓✓ A term indicating that a client's behaviors are not in sync
with the ego (guilt)
Ego-syntonic
✓✓ When the ego is comfortable with its conclusions and
behaviors, a client is said to be _____________________
Ego strength
✓✓ The ability of the ego to effectively deal with the demands
of the id, the superego, and reality. Helps to maintain emotional
stability and cope with internal and external stress.
Superego
✓✓ The moral component of personality. Contains all the
moral standards learned from caregivers and society
1. Oral stage
2. Anal stage
3. Phallic stage
4. Latency stage
5. Genital stage
✓✓ What are the five stages of Freud's Psychosexual stages of
development?
Fixation