ASWB Bachelors Exam Questions With
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Theories of Couples Development - k k k k
correct answer...✔✔couples interactions follow a developmental model
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stages
1. romance
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2. power struggle
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3. stability
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4. commitment
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5. co-creation
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Theories of Couples Development: k k k
Romance - correct answer...✔✔-stage one k k k k k
-begins at introduction, common interests, learning about each other
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- focus of this stage is attachment
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-romantic bond is foundational and critical to health of relationship
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-members in engage in symbiotic or mutualistic relationships
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power struggle - correct answer...✔✔-stage two
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-realize that they arent the same person
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defining one's self k k
-loss of romance from self expression
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-differentiation
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acknowledge differences, learn to share power and accept partners w/o needing to change
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stability - correct answer...✔✔stage three
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becoming more independent within the relationship k k k k k
focus on personal needs
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disagreements can occur w/o a party "winning" k k k k k k
power struggles are avoided
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ultimate goal is intimacy that doesn't sacrifice separateness
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commitment - correct answer...✔✔stage 4 k k k k
marriage is ideal k k
good outweighs the bad
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realization that they want to be together k k k k k k k
still need work to effectively function in next/last stage of couple-hood
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co-creation - correct answer...✔✔stage 5 k k k k
constancy
partners are able to value and respect separateness of the other
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work on projects together
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creating positive change that benefits other people
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Acting out - correct answer...✔✔
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Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings
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instead of talking about feeling neglected, acting out to get attention
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compensation - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies. (little man syndrome)
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conversion - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually the senso
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ry, voluntary nervous system
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decompensation - correct answer...✔✔deterioration of existing defenses k k k k k k
denial - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
primitive defense; inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, events
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devaluation - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
Defense mechanism frequently used by individuals with borderline personality organizatio
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n in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or others. split of primiti
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dissociation - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
a process that enables a person to split mental functions in a manner that allows them to ex
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press forbidden or unconscious impulses w/o taking responsibility for the action bc they do
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nt remember it or bc they are not experienced as their own actions
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displacement - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
directing an impulse, wish or feeling toward a person or situation that is not the real object
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(mad at boss, kicks dog)
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idealization - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another k k k k k k k k
identification - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
universal mechanism whereby a person patterns themself after a significant other. plays a
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major role in personality development, especially superego
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,identification with the aggressor - correct answer...✔✔ k k k k k k
mastering anxiety by identifying with a powerful aggressor to counteract feelings of helples
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sness and to feel powerful oneself. (abusing others after one has been abused themself)
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Incorporation - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
Primitive mechanism in which psychic representation of a person (or parts of a person) is/ar
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e figuratively ingested
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inhibition - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
loss of motivation to engage in activity avoided bc it might stir up conflict over forbidden imp
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introjection - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
loved or hated external objects are symbolically absorbed within self (depressed, unconsci
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Intellectualization - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
where a person avoids uncomfortable emotions by focusing on facts and logic. Emotional a
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spects are completely ignored as being irrelevant.
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isolation of affect - correct answer...✔✔
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Unacceptable impulse, idea, or act is separated from its original memory source, thereby re
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moving the original emotional charge associated with it.
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projection - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
primitive defense; attributing ones disowned attitudes, wishes, feelings, urges to some exte
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projective identification - correct answer...✔✔—
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a form of projection utilized by persons with Borderline Personality Disorder—
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unconsciously perceiving others' behavior as a reflection of one's own identity.
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rationalization - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
third line of defense, not unconscious. giving believable explanation for irrational behavior,
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motivated by unacceptable unconscious wishes or by defenses used to cope with such wis
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reaction formation - correct answer...✔✔
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person adopts affects, ideas, attitudes or behaviors that are opposites of those he or she ha
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regression - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
partial or symbolic return to more infantile patterns, can be in service to ego
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, Repression - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
key mechanism, expressed clinically by amnesia or symptomatic forgetting serving to bani
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sh unacceptable ideas, fantasies, affects, or impulses from consciousness
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splitting - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
defensive mechanism associated with borderline personality disorder in which a person pe
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rcieves self and others as all good or all bad. splitting serves to protect the good objects. a p
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erson cant integrate the good and bad in people
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sublimation - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
potentially maladaptive feelings or behaviors are diverted into socially acceptable adaptive
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channels (angry person channeling that into sports)
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Substitution - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
Unattainable or unacceptable goal, emotion, or object is replaced by one more attainable or
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acceptable.
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symbolization - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
a mental representation that stands for some other thing, class of things, or attribute. this m
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echanism underlies dream formation and other symptoms (such as conversion, obsession
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s, compulsions) with a link btw latent meaning of symptom and symbol; usually unconsciou
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turning against self - correct answer...✔✔
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defense to deflect hostile aggression or other unacceptable impulses from another to self
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undoing - correct answer...✔✔ k k k
a person uses words or actions to symbolically reverse or negate unacceptable thoughts, f
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eelings, or actions (i.e., a person compulsively washing hands to deal with obsessive thoug
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goals of treatment of substance abuse disorder - correct answer...✔✔
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1. abstinence from substances
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2. maximizing life functioning
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3. preventing or reducing the frequency and severity of relapse
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stages of treatment of substance abuse disorders - correct answer...✔✔1. stabilization
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2. rehabilitation/habilitation
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3. maintenance
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stages of treatment of substance abuse disorders
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stabilization - correct answer...✔✔stage one k k k k k
focus is on establishing abstinence, accepting a substance abuse problem, and committing
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