ASWB Bachelors Exam Questions With
Verified Answers.
When should self determination be limited? - answer✔Only in situations where it would cause
harm to a client or others.
Jean Piaget - answer✔Developmental psychologist best known for his theory of cognitive
development. Theory states that children learn through interaction in the environment.
Nature vs nurture - answer✔Whether cognitive development is mainly determined by a clients
innate qualities (nature), or by his personal experiences (nurture). Many experts avoid this
question today.
Social development on micro level - answer✔Learning how to behave and interact well with
others. Relies on managing feelings.
Social development on a macro level - answer✔Commitment that development processes need to
benefit people. Recognizes the way people interact in groups and society.
Social development - answer✔Change in social institutions.
Spiritual growth and development stages - answer✔-Unwilling to accept a will greater than their
own.
-Blind faith in authority figures, world is divided into good and evil.
-Scientific skepticism and questioning.
-Enjoys mystery and beauty of existence.
Bio psychosocial-spiritual-cultural challenges older people are faced with - answer✔Health and
physical abilities, accessing affordable-high quality health care, decreased economic security,
increased vulnerability to abuse and exploitation, and loss of meaningful roles.
Health care issues with adults 80+ - answer✔Communication: Encourage to express feelings,
stay positive
Health: monitor closely, promote self care, ensure nutrition, stress, and activity levels
Safety:ensure safe living
Development - answer✔Product of the elaborate interplay of biological, psychological, spiritual,
and social influences
John Bowlby - answer✔Originated Attachment Theory.
Attachment: defined by Bowlby - answer✔A lasting psychological connectedness that can be
understood within an evolutionary context in which a caregiver provides safety and security to a
child. Child is pre-programmed to create attachments.
Monotropy - answer✔One primary attachment figure. Acts as a secure base for exploring the
world.
Learned behavior attachment - answer✔Child will form an attachment to whoever feeds it. Child
finds comfort in food, through classical conditioning, finds comfort in feeder. Child uses operant
conditioning to get what it wants.
Stranger anxiety - answer✔Crying when an unfamiliar person tries to hold child, begins between
5-9 months. Intensifies at age 1, stops around age 2.
Separation anxiety - answer✔Beings 6-8 months, peaks at 14-18 months, resolved by 24-36
months. Upset when caregiver leaves sight.
Separation anxiety disorder - answer✔Characterized by excessive worrying about being away
from caregiver. Occurs in later childhood.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs - answer✔Clients are motivated to meet certain needs, when one is
filled they seek the next one. (physiological, safety, social, esteem, self-actualization)
Physiological needs - answer✔Maintain the physical organism. Biological needs such as
food/water/oxygen/ temperature.
Safety needs - answer✔Need to feel safe from harm/danger/threat.
Social needs - answer✔Friendship, intimacy, affection, and love are needed.
Esteem needs - answer✔Need of a stable, firmly based level of self respect and respect from
others.
Self-actualization - answer✔Ongoing process of need to be oneself, act consistently with whom
one is.
Humanistic approach - answer✔clients have the capacity to grow, change, and adapt.
Strength - answer✔Any ability that helps and individual to confront and deal with a stressful life
situation and to grow from it.
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