LISW EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2025/2026
Koulberg Preconventional Stage - Answers Good/bad depends on consequences
Koulberg Conventional Stage - Answers Good/bad depends on punishment by law
Koulberg Post Conventional - Answers Good/bad based on ethical principles
Piaget Premoral - Answers < age 6, little concern for rules
Piaget Heteonomous Morality - Answers Age 7-10, right/wrong depends on consequences
Piaget Autonomous Morality - Answers Right/wrong depends on intention of actor
Lying age 7-8 - Answers children intentionally lie
Lying age 10-11 - Answers children recognize they can be deceived
Kublers (5) Stages Death and Dying - Answers 1.) Denial 2.) Anger 3.) Bargaining 4.) Depression
5.) Acceptance
Maslows Hierachy (5 stages) - Answers 1. Survival 2. Safety and Security 3. Social belonging 4.
Esteem 5. Self Actualization
Stress Diathesis Theory - Answers Szhizophrenia/MI's are a result of predisposition AND
stressful events
Negative Feedback - Answers Restores Homeostasis
Positive Feedback - Answers Designed to unbalance
Displacement - Answers Transfer feelings and react to a safer, less threatening person/source
Bandura's Observational Learning (4) - Answers 1. Attentional 2. Retention 3. Production 4.
Motivation
Ellis Rational Emotive Therapy - Answers A. Activating event B. Belief about event C. Emotional
Consequence from behavior
GABA - Answers inhibiting neurotransmitter affected by benzos
Glutamate - Answers Belived to be responsible for long term memory
Piagets Sensory Motor Stage - Answers (Birth- age 2) Object permanence--doesnt exist if out of
sight
Piagets Pre-operational Stage - Answers (Age 2-7) Use symbolic thought to solve problems
Piagets Concrete Stage - Answers (Age 7-11) Capable of mental operations to problem solve
, Formal Operation Stage - Answers (age 11+) Able to think abstractly and hypothetically
Females do better on _____ - Answers Verbal Ability
Males do better on ____ - Answers spatial and qualitative
Infants develop a fussy cry at ___ - Answers 2-3 months
at _____ babies create consonent babble sounds - Answers 4 months
at ____ - ____ babies narrow their reporteir to the sound of their own language - Answers 9-14
months
babies repeat sounds without knowing the meaning - Answers echololia
stranger anxiety happens around age ___ - Answers 8-10 months; usually decreases at age 2
Bulimia can lead to the medical condition ____ - Answers hypokalemia
Repression - Answers Forget consciously; foundation of neurotic behavior
Sublimation - Answers Turning an unhealthy desire into an acceptable one
Denial - Answers Refusal to accept reality bc is too threatening
Projection - Answers Release of anxiety without beign consciously aware of it/ shidting
unwanted thoughts onto someone else
Intellectualization - Answers Concentrating on the intellectual part of something so that you can
distance self from anxiety provoking event/situation
Death Age 2-5 - Answers Believe death is reversible
Death Age 5-8 - Answers Blame self for death
Believed dysfunction of BPD - Answers object relations is disrupted
Most difficult to overcome when establishing rapport - Answers socioeconomic status
Theory X - Answers people don't want to work, they need direction
In adolescence group therapy, most important consideration is ____ - Answers developmental
level
Most dangerous drug to overdose - Answers Valium
Legal def of rape in any state - Answers If child is under 14 and other person is not
Key component of empathy - Answers Reflection
Koulberg Preconventional Stage - Answers Good/bad depends on consequences
Koulberg Conventional Stage - Answers Good/bad depends on punishment by law
Koulberg Post Conventional - Answers Good/bad based on ethical principles
Piaget Premoral - Answers < age 6, little concern for rules
Piaget Heteonomous Morality - Answers Age 7-10, right/wrong depends on consequences
Piaget Autonomous Morality - Answers Right/wrong depends on intention of actor
Lying age 7-8 - Answers children intentionally lie
Lying age 10-11 - Answers children recognize they can be deceived
Kublers (5) Stages Death and Dying - Answers 1.) Denial 2.) Anger 3.) Bargaining 4.) Depression
5.) Acceptance
Maslows Hierachy (5 stages) - Answers 1. Survival 2. Safety and Security 3. Social belonging 4.
Esteem 5. Self Actualization
Stress Diathesis Theory - Answers Szhizophrenia/MI's are a result of predisposition AND
stressful events
Negative Feedback - Answers Restores Homeostasis
Positive Feedback - Answers Designed to unbalance
Displacement - Answers Transfer feelings and react to a safer, less threatening person/source
Bandura's Observational Learning (4) - Answers 1. Attentional 2. Retention 3. Production 4.
Motivation
Ellis Rational Emotive Therapy - Answers A. Activating event B. Belief about event C. Emotional
Consequence from behavior
GABA - Answers inhibiting neurotransmitter affected by benzos
Glutamate - Answers Belived to be responsible for long term memory
Piagets Sensory Motor Stage - Answers (Birth- age 2) Object permanence--doesnt exist if out of
sight
Piagets Pre-operational Stage - Answers (Age 2-7) Use symbolic thought to solve problems
Piagets Concrete Stage - Answers (Age 7-11) Capable of mental operations to problem solve
, Formal Operation Stage - Answers (age 11+) Able to think abstractly and hypothetically
Females do better on _____ - Answers Verbal Ability
Males do better on ____ - Answers spatial and qualitative
Infants develop a fussy cry at ___ - Answers 2-3 months
at _____ babies create consonent babble sounds - Answers 4 months
at ____ - ____ babies narrow their reporteir to the sound of their own language - Answers 9-14
months
babies repeat sounds without knowing the meaning - Answers echololia
stranger anxiety happens around age ___ - Answers 8-10 months; usually decreases at age 2
Bulimia can lead to the medical condition ____ - Answers hypokalemia
Repression - Answers Forget consciously; foundation of neurotic behavior
Sublimation - Answers Turning an unhealthy desire into an acceptable one
Denial - Answers Refusal to accept reality bc is too threatening
Projection - Answers Release of anxiety without beign consciously aware of it/ shidting
unwanted thoughts onto someone else
Intellectualization - Answers Concentrating on the intellectual part of something so that you can
distance self from anxiety provoking event/situation
Death Age 2-5 - Answers Believe death is reversible
Death Age 5-8 - Answers Blame self for death
Believed dysfunction of BPD - Answers object relations is disrupted
Most difficult to overcome when establishing rapport - Answers socioeconomic status
Theory X - Answers people don't want to work, they need direction
In adolescence group therapy, most important consideration is ____ - Answers developmental
level
Most dangerous drug to overdose - Answers Valium
Legal def of rape in any state - Answers If child is under 14 and other person is not
Key component of empathy - Answers Reflection
