Social Work Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Social Work is an academic and professional discipline focused on enhancing the well-being of individuals, families, groups, and communities. The course provides a comprehensive overview of social work theories, principles, and ethical practices, emphasizing social justice, human rights, and empowerment. Students learn to assess and address social issues such as poverty, discrimination, mental health, child welfare, and substance abuse. Through both theoretical instruction and practical fieldwork, the course equips students with the skills necessary to support vulnerable populations, advocate for policy change, and promote social inclusion in a variety of settings including healthcare, schools, community organizations, and government agencies.
Recommended Textbook Human Development A Cultural Approach 1st Edition by Jeffrey J. Arnett
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Chapter 1: A Cultural Approach to Human Development
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Q1) Which of the following is true regarding research methods?
A)Qualitative data is considered unscientific among most researchers in the field of psychology.
B)The strength of the case study approach is the ability to generalize the findings.
C)The ethnographic method allows the researcher to learn how people behave in their daily lives.
D)The most commonly used method in social science research is the open-ended interview.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is an example of a scientific hypothesis?
A)"Space exploration benefits our world and the United States needs to increase funding for NASA."
B)"Marital satisfaction tends to improve when the youngest child is grown and leaves the home because parents now have more time and energy for the marital relationship."
C)"HIV causes AIDS,and AIDS is a disease and will never be cured."
D)"If a tree falls in the forest,and no one is there to hear it; does it make a sound?"
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Genetics and Prenatal Development
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Q1) ____ is described as behaviors,environments,and bodily conditions that could be harmful to a fetus.
A)Lanugo
B)Teratogens
C)Vernix
D)Trophoblast
Answer: B
Q2) Heavy lifting,continuous standing,and strenuous physical exertion raise the risks of _____.
A)postmaturity in the fetus
B)difficulties associated with neuronal development
C)miscarriages and premature births
D)chromosomal errors in the fetus
Answer: C
Q3) How many pairs of chromosomes do humans have?
A)23
B)46
C)69
D)92
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Birth and the Newborn Child
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Q1) ____ is a drug-and-technology-free approach to childbearing.
A)Obstetrician-assisted childbirth
B)Lamaze
C)Bradley
D)Natural childbirth
Answer: D
Q2) What are some of the advances in care that technology has provided to the NICU? Answer: High frequency ventilator & oscillator (both are oxygenation systems),monitors to continually watch the vital signs,and developmental care (workers are more educated)are a few of the advances in technology.
Q3) Whereas adults typically spend about 20% of their time in REM sleep,what percentage of time do neonates spend in REM sleep?
A)30%
B)50%
C)70%
D)90%
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Infancy
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Q1) Language comprehension refers to words that are ____.
A)used
B)understood
C)single syllables
D)multi syllables
Q2) Your nephew was born in mid-June so you had two months to play with him before you left for school.It seemed like your nephew really enjoyed when you rocked and held him.When you saw him next at Christmas he was six months old.What was his likely reaction to seeing you again?
A)He acted overjoyed to see you because he remembered you.
B)He was afraid as if he had stranger anxiety
C)He acted like he had no idea who you were,but smiled at you.
D)He was happy to see you because he was too young for stranger anxiety.
Q3) What percentage of babies did Thomas and Chess find met their definition of "difficult" babies?
A)10%
B)30%
C)50%
D)70%
Q4) Give an example of how social referencing is adaptive for babies.
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Chapter 5: Toddlerhood
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Q1) Which of the following is a sociomoral emotion?
A)anger
B)pride
C)fear
D)happiness
Q2) What concept would accurately describe teaching your daughter how to dress herself? You first dressed her,indicating what you were doing and why,then you had her help as you dressed her,and lastly allowed her to dress herself as you watched and helped if needed?
A)scaffolding
B)framing
C)guided instruction
D)zone of proximal development
Q3) ____ is the ability to understand and respond helpfully to another person's distress.
A)Sadness
B)Thoughtfulness
C)Empathy
D)Apathy
Q4) Define and give an example of scaffolding.
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Chapter 6: Early Childhood
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Q1) In regards to preschool education,the United States prioritizes ____,whereas Japan prioritizes ____.
A)cooperative play; parallel play
B)parallel play; cooperative play
C)social skills; academic skills
D)academic skills; social skills
Q2) Researchers have found that 2- to 7-year-old children are actually less egocentric than Piaget thought.What is an example of a toddler understanding the perspective of someone else?
A)when a toddler breaks the favorite toy of an older sibling to annoy him or her
B)when a toddler dreams that he or she is someone else
C)when a toddler speaks in long sentences to babies
D)when a toddler eats his or her meal as quickly as possible
Q3) When do children learn when it is culturally appropriate to speak and when it is best to keep their thoughts to themselves?
A)toddlerhood
B)early childhood
C)middle childhood
D)children never learn this in Western cultures
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Chapter 7: Middle Childhood
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Q1) Your family has a history of asthma and allergies.Your brother is a smoker and he and his wife have a 6-year-old son.What do you need to tell him regarding smoking and asthma?
A)If he wants his child to have asthma,keep smoking.
B)Smoking will reduce the likelihood that his child will have asthma.
C)Although many people think that there is a link between smoking and asthma,there is not.
D)Children of smoking parents have been found to have unusually strong lung capacities.
Q2) By the end of middle childhood what abilities have nearly reached adult maturity?
A)gross motor skills
B)psycho-motor skills
C)vestibular-motor skills
D)fine motor skills
Q3) Most cultures' gender roles become more ____ during middle childhood.
A)nurturing
B)flexible
C)divided
D)inconsistent
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Chapter 8: Adolescence
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Q1) Adolescents who work more than 10 hours a week are more likely to ____.
A)have psychological symptoms
B)be happy
C)have several romantic relationships
D)have very high grades
Q2) With regard to pubertal development for females,what is the most important estrogen?
A)testosterone
B)estradiol
C)estriol
D)androgen
Q3) The following is an example of a boy learning to weave handmade cloth."The boy attempts a simple weaving pattern,the father
A)scaffolding
B)zone of proximal development
C)psychosocial moratorium
D)cooperative learning
Q4) Outline at least two of Harter's domains of self-image or self-esteem.Which domain has been found to be more important to adolescents?
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Chapter 9: Emerging Adulthood
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Q1) Tertiary education in the United States is mainly paid for by ____,whereas in other industrialized countries it is paid for by ____.
A)students and their parents; the government
B)the government; students and their parents
C)students and their parents; corporate endowments
D)corporate endowments; students and their parents
Q2) According to the text,both religious participation and religious beliefs ____ throughout the teens and are ____ in the late teens and early twenties than at any other period of the life span.
A)increase; higher
B)increase; lower
C)decline; higher
D)decline; lower
Q3) In regards to emerging adulthood,in both Europe and the United States unemployment has been found to be associated with ____.
A)higher risk for depression
B)higher risk for personality disorders
C)higher risk for eating disorders
D)higher risk for schizophrenic disorders
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Chapter 10: Young Adulthood
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Q1) According to the text,marriage has more often been seen by cultures as ____.
A)a way to increase the likelihood of survival
B)a mechanism to create more children
C)a uniting of two individuals
D)an alliance between two families
Q2) Your cousin,who is in his early thirties,owns his own Internet marketing company.Before starting the Internet marketing company,he ran another Internet startup for eight years before selling it.Whenever any problems arise with the company,he draws from his wide range of knowledge and experience with similar problems in the past in order to devise an effective solution.What would experts say your cousin has?
A)experience
B)a successful business
C)expertise
D)problem solving skills
Q3) BMI is calculated by examining a person's:
A)heart rate after 1 minute of intense exercise
B)skin fold thickness
C)ratio of height to weight
D)maximum carbon dioxide replacement
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Chapter 11: Middle Adulthood
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Q1) ____ is the amount of time it takes the person to respond to a stimulus.
A)Crystallized intelligence
B)Reaction time
C)Creativity
D)Temporal lobe processing speed
Q2) For Americans who experience a divorce some time in their forties,fifties,and sixties,the most common cited reason,for women is ____.
A)"different values/lifestyles"
B)"verbal or physical abuse"
C)"infidelity"
D)"fell out of love"
Q3) Your 56-year-old teacher seems very comfortable with herself.If she does not know the answer to a student's question she simply states that she does not know and will try to find the answer.Is she an unusual person for her age?
A)No,self-contentment is at its peak during middle adulthood.
B)No,women of all ages have high self-contentment.
C)Yes,self-contentment is generally the highest during emerging adulthood.
D)Yes,more middle adults have poor self-contentment.
Q4) What are two critiques of Levinson's research on mid-life crisis?
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Chapter 12: Late Adulthood
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Q1) According to Carstensen,at late adulthood,the goals that people have for their social relationships are:
A)knowledge-based.
B)emotions-based.
C)task-based.
D)conflict-based.
Q2) What is the ratio of the number of person aged 65 years or older to the number of person aged 20 to 64 years in Japan?
A)25%
B)35%
C)45%
D)55%
Q3) Older adults seek to maintain and develop relationships that are low in conflict and high in mutual enjoyment,and drop the rest.This is as also known as:
A)emotions-based social relationships.
B)knowledge-based social relationships.
C)tasked-based social relationships.
D)people-based social relationships.
Q4) Describe two eye problems that are more likely to develop as people age.
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Chapter 13: Death and Afterlife Beliefs
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Q1) During bereavement,in a study of widows and widowers in the Netherlands,more than ____ continued to "talk" to their deceased spouse about important decisions,even years after the death.
A)10%
B)25%
C)50%
D)95%
Q2) A(n)____ often shatters the survivors' assumptions that the world is benevolent,just,and predictable,and the psychological effects are evident for years afterward.
A)unavoidable death
B)expected death
C)sudden death
D)anticipated death
Q3) Where do most Hindus die?
A)at a temple
B)at a church
C)at a hospital
D)at home
Q4) In what part of the lifespan is cancer most common? Explain why.
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