Social Work Comprehensive Exam with
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C. Psychodynamic approach - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following approaches proposes
that the superego is the personality structure that guides moral development?
A. Social learning approach
B. Behavioral developmental approach
C. Psychodynamic approach
D. Cognitive developmental approach
Cohort - correct answer ✔✔A __________________ is a set of persons who were born at the
same historical time and who experience particular social changes within a given culture in the
same sequence and age.
Support group
Class
Cohort
Subsystem
Resilience - correct answer ✔✔________ is the ability of an individual, family, group,
community or organization to recover from adversity and resume functioning even when
suffering serious trouble, confusion, or hardship.
,Transitions
Adaptation
Strength
Resilience
Human ecology perspective - correct answer ✔✔This perspective emphasizes the importance of
relationships between systems within an environment and considers how the environment
affects human development, interaction, and quality of life.
Sociopsychological perspective
Human ecology perspective
Theoretical community perspective
Structural perspective
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or political power so that individuals can take action to
improve their situations - correct answer ✔✔A primary goal within the area of Social Work is
that of empowering people. The concept of empowerment in social work is defined as
_________.
,None of the above
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or financial resources of individuals to help them take action
to improve their situations
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or political power so that individuals can take action to
improve their situations
Increasing client political power and financial resources to improve their situations
Secure attachment - correct answer ✔✔According to Mary Ainsworth's theory of attachment,
when a child uses the mother as a home base and feels comfortable leaving this base to explore
their environment. This is considered to be which of the following types of attachment?
Avoidant attachment
Secure attachment
Positive attachment
Anxious attachment
Social learning approach - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following approaches proposes that
behavior is shaped by environmental reinforcements and punishments?
Behavioral developmental approach
, Psychodynamic approach
Cognitive developmental approach
Social learning approach
Concrete Operational Stage - correct answer ✔✔In this stage within Piaget's cognitive
development, children begin to think logically on a concrete level, begin to develop the capacity
to think from other points of view, and the child develops the ability to conceptualize in terms
of reversibility.
Sensorimotor Stage
Preoperational Stage
Concrete Operational Stage
Formal Operational Stage
Institutional racism - correct answer ✔✔_________ is the systematic denial of access to assets,
economic opportunities, associations, and organizations based on minority status.
Institutional racism
Resource diffusion
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C. Psychodynamic approach - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following approaches proposes
that the superego is the personality structure that guides moral development?
A. Social learning approach
B. Behavioral developmental approach
C. Psychodynamic approach
D. Cognitive developmental approach
Cohort - correct answer ✔✔A __________________ is a set of persons who were born at the
same historical time and who experience particular social changes within a given culture in the
same sequence and age.
Support group
Class
Cohort
Subsystem
Resilience - correct answer ✔✔________ is the ability of an individual, family, group,
community or organization to recover from adversity and resume functioning even when
suffering serious trouble, confusion, or hardship.
,Transitions
Adaptation
Strength
Resilience
Human ecology perspective - correct answer ✔✔This perspective emphasizes the importance of
relationships between systems within an environment and considers how the environment
affects human development, interaction, and quality of life.
Sociopsychological perspective
Human ecology perspective
Theoretical community perspective
Structural perspective
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or political power so that individuals can take action to
improve their situations - correct answer ✔✔A primary goal within the area of Social Work is
that of empowering people. The concept of empowerment in social work is defined as
_________.
,None of the above
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or financial resources of individuals to help them take action
to improve their situations
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or political power so that individuals can take action to
improve their situations
Increasing client political power and financial resources to improve their situations
Secure attachment - correct answer ✔✔According to Mary Ainsworth's theory of attachment,
when a child uses the mother as a home base and feels comfortable leaving this base to explore
their environment. This is considered to be which of the following types of attachment?
Avoidant attachment
Secure attachment
Positive attachment
Anxious attachment
Social learning approach - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following approaches proposes that
behavior is shaped by environmental reinforcements and punishments?
Behavioral developmental approach
, Psychodynamic approach
Cognitive developmental approach
Social learning approach
Concrete Operational Stage - correct answer ✔✔In this stage within Piaget's cognitive
development, children begin to think logically on a concrete level, begin to develop the capacity
to think from other points of view, and the child develops the ability to conceptualize in terms
of reversibility.
Sensorimotor Stage
Preoperational Stage
Concrete Operational Stage
Formal Operational Stage
Institutional racism - correct answer ✔✔_________ is the systematic denial of access to assets,
economic opportunities, associations, and organizations based on minority status.
Institutional racism
Resource diffusion
