Human Behavior and Social Environment PRACTICE EXAMINATION

A 150 item Exam focusing on the subject Human 9. How TRUE is this statement from the
Behavior and Social Environment and its Psychoanalysis theory “a wish for food, such as the
applications to the Social Work Profession image of a juicy steak, might be enough to satisfy the
Choose the best answer among the choices id, it isn't enough to satisfy the organism.” ?
provided A. 100% true
NO ERASURES B. 95% true
C. 85% true
1. You have been hired, by a private, non-profit D. None of the Above
agency, which works with the HIV/AIDS population. 10. A female who was physically abused by her
The primary function of your unit is to educate husband, the physical abuse was severe enough that
sexually active individuals about the disease and to their neighbors eventually reported the situation to the
help them understand the importance of testing, life- proper authorities. When the police officers came to
style changes and treatment if necessary. arrest the husband he did not resist and was silent
A. Crisis intervention through the entire ordeal, but the wife was resisting
B. Prevention and did not want her husband to be arrested,
C. Rehabilitation screaming to the police officers that his husband did
D. Assimilation nothing wrong and she deserved all the beatings she
deserved. This is can be the manifestation of the
2. Human behavior isn’t learned through solely “battered wife syndrome”. What type of disorder or
observations defense mechanism is this syndrome?
A. True A. PTSD
B. False B. Denial
C. Both A and B C. Regression
D. None of the above D. Acceptance
3. These are the traits that dominate an individual's 11. ____________can be proven or rejected, this can
entire personality also be improved or modified as more information is
A. Core personality gathered so that the accuracy of the prediction
B. Cardinal Trait becomes greater over time.
C. Central Trait A. Theory
D. Cardio Trait B. Hypothesis
C. Educated Guess
4. The statement “When she smiles it’s got nothing to D. Facts
do with me” is frequently heard from? 12. In adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, the
A. a Neurotic person most frequently encountered defense mechanism is:
B. a Depressed person A. denial
C. a Delusional person B. intellectualism
D. None of the above C. suppression
5. A type of research commonly used by Case D. projection
Managers
A. Quantitative 13. If you feel threatened, overwhelmed, or as if you
B. Qualitative were about to collapse under the weight of it all. This
C. Scientific Method feeling is called?
D. Communicative A. Anxiety
6. _____________ saw all human behavior as B. Anomie
motivated by the drives or instincts, which in turn are C. Stress
the neurological representations of physical needs. D. Depression
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Anna Freud 14. it is what we feel when the threat comes not from
C. Alfred Adler the outer, physical world, but from the internalized
D. Abraham Maslow social world.
7. What is Carl-Jung’s Middle name? A. Anxiety
A. Carl-Gustav-Jung B. Moral Anxiety
B. Carl-Gostav-Jung C. Neurotic Anxiety
C. Carl-Benedict-Jung D. Realistic Anxiety
D. None of the above
8. This can be understood as a demand to take care 15. A young girl who has been rejected by the object
of needs immediately. of her affections may turn away from feminine things
A. Basic needs and become a "sex-less intellectual”.
B. Physiological needs A. Asceticism
C. Hunger or Starvation B. Avoidance
D. ID C. Isolation
D. Reaction Formation
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23. This occurs when a client projects feelings toward

16. A boy who is afraid that he may be humiliated on the therapist that more legitimately belong with certain
the football team may unaccountably become deeply important others.
interested in poetry
A. Asceticism A. Counter - Trasnference
B. Renunciation of Needs B. Transfer
C. Isolation C. Transference
D. Sublimation D. Dual-Relationship

17. ___________________ is sometimes called 24. It is the sudden and dramatic outpouring of
intellectualization emotion that occurs when the trauma is resurrected.
A. Isolation
B. Sour-Graping A. Venting
C. Rationalization B. Ventilization
D. Sweet Lemon C. Catharsis
D. Expression
18. The genital stage begins at puberty, and ain’t
representing the resurgence of the sex drive in 25. “If mom and dad can give the newborn a degree
adolescence of familiarity, consistency, and continuity, then the
A. True child will develop the feeling that the world --
B. False
especially the social world -- is a safe place to be, that
C. 1st phrase is true, 2nd phrase is false
people are reliable and loving. Through the parents'
D. 2nd phase is true, 1st phrase is false
E. Both phrases are false responses” This statement is best related to the
theories of _______________ .
19. If you have difficulties in any of the tasks
A. Jean Piaget
associated with the psychosexual development
stages, you tend to retain certain infantile or childish B. Sigmund Freud
habits. This is called______. C. Erik Erikson
A. Oedipal Crisis D. All of the Above
B. Fixation
C. Libido 26. The oral stage lasts from birth to about 18 months.
D. Maladjustment The focus of pleasure is the mouth. Sucking and
biting are favorite activities. The anal stage lasts from
20. A person not seeking any relationship himself, is about 18 months to three or four years old. The focus
constantly pushing other people into them, and is of pleasure is the anus. Holding it in and letting it go
particularly curious as to "what happened last night" are greatly enjoyed. The phallic stage lasts from three
and "how are things going?" or four to five, six, or seven years old. The focus of
A. Projection pleasure isn’t the genitalia. Masturbation is common.
B. Altruistic Surrender
The latent stage lasts from five, six, or seven to
C. Reaction Formation
puberty, the genital stage begins at puberty, and does
D. Idealization
not represents the resurgence of the sex drive in
21. The pyschosexual energy or ________, was adolescence. Are all this statements true?’
described as the driving force behind behavior.
A. All of the statements are True
A. Ego
B. Id B. All the statements are False
C. Libido C. Only 1 statement is false
D. SuperEgo D. Only 1 statement is true
E. None of the above
22. When a client tries to change the topic, draws a
complete blank, falls asleep, comes in late, or skips
an appointment altogether.
27. Considers human nature to be open-ended,
A. Avoidance flexible and capable of an enormous range of
B. Fear experience. The person is in a constant process of
C. Resistance becoming.
A. Eric Fromm
D. Acceptance
B. Erik Erikson
E. Distancing
C. Rollo May
D. Alfred Adler
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28. Childhood and adolescent stage of developing 34. The part of the psyche that makes his theory
one’s ego or self-consciousness by means of contrast stand out from all others: the collective unconscious.
with adults, from the “no” of the two-year-old to the You could call it your "________________."
“no way” of the teenager. The person wants freedom, A. Collective unconscious
but has as yet no full understanding of the B. Psychic Inheritance
responsibility that goes with it. The teenager may C. Archetypes
want to spend their allowance in any way they choose D. Library
-- yet they still expect the parent to provide the
money, and will complain about unfairness if they 35. It is the reservoir of our experiences as a species,
don't get it! a kind of knowledge we are all born with. And yet we
can never be directly conscious of it
A. Ordinary A. Collective unconscious
B. Creative B. Psychic Inheritance
C. Rebellion C. Archetypes
D. Innocence D. Library

29. A client whose mother dies following a long term 36. – 45. Is the Table representing the psychosexual
illness states to the social worker that he believes that developmental stages properly constructed?
his angry thoughts about his mother caused the
death. This is an example of Stage Age Sexu Develop Fixation
A. delusions al mental
B. grandiosity Focu Task
C. magical thinking s
D. ideas of reference ORAL 0-1 MOU WEANIN OBSSESI
TH G VE
30. According to Rollo May “________” is not the EATING
“ability to organize oneself in order to achieve one’s ANAL 2-3 ANUS TOILET SELF
goals.” TRAININ PLEASUR
A. Will G ING /
B. Focus INDEPEN
C. None of the above DENCE
D. All of the above PHAL 4-5 GENI OEDIPAL DIFFICUL
LIC TALS CRISIS TY WITH
31. The adaptive tendency in stage eight is called INTIMATE
presumption. This is what happens when a person RELATIO
"presumes" ego integrity without actually facing the NSHIPS
difficulties of old age. LATE 6-12 NONE SOCIAL NO
A. True NCY INTERAC FIXATION
B. False TION
C. None of the Above GEN PUBE GENI INTIMATE Sexual
D. False, there is no stage 8 TAL RTY TALS RELATIO intrest /
AND NSHIPS normal
ABOV sexual
32. Which of the following characteristics is usually
E motivation
not found in families in which incestuous relationships
have occurred?
A. Enmeshment of family members A. YES
B. Distorted patterns of communication B. No
C. Symbiotic mother-child relationships C. No, STAGES COLUMN IS WRONG
D. Moralistic attitudes to extramarital affairs D. No, AGE COLUMN IS WRONG
E. No FIXATIONS COLUMN IS WRONG
33. The purpose of feedback in a social worker
interview is to: 46-50. Is the table presenting Jean Piaget’s cognitive
A. allow the social worker to confront developmental stages properly constructed?
distortions in the client’s thinking
B. summarize main points of the interview Stage Age Description
C. let the client know social worker Sensory motor 0-2 Coordination
understands the issue with motor
D. give the social worker opportunity to self- response
disclose for benefit of the client Pre-operational 3-7 Symbolic
thinking
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Concrete 7-12 Time, space , 55. Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic theory is often
operational and quantity is wrongly used interchangeably with _____________
understood A. Psychosexual
Formal 13 and Theoretical, B. Psychodynamics
Operational above hypothetical , C. Psychosocial
counter factual D. Biopsychosocial
thinking
56. There exists, beyond instincts and "selfish
A. Yes. genes," beyond classical and operant conditioning,
B. No. beyond the imperatives of biology and culture, a
C. No. Age Column is wrong special something, uniquely human, uniquely
D. No. Stage Column is wrong personal. This statement is BEST associated with
E. No. Description is wrong who?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Viktor
51. A rather abstract, and we are likely to project the
C. Ackerman
archetype out into the world and onto a particular
D. None of the Above
person, usually our own mothers. Even when an
archetype doesn't have a particular real person 57. Symbols of the ______________ include the
available, we tend to personify the archetype, that is, snake (as in the garden of Eden), the dragon,
turn it into a mythological "story-book" character. monsters, and demons. It often guards the entrance
A. Mana to a cave or a pool of water, which is the unconscious
B. Anima A. The statement is false
C. Mother B. Shadow
D. Archetypes C. Monster
D. The statement is lacking
52. It is the "dark side" of the ego, and the evil that we 58. Borderline personality disorder is characterized by
are capable of is often stored there. Actually, it is -- all of the following characteristics except
neither good nor bad, just like animals. An animal is A. intense long term relationships
capable of tender care for its young and vicious killing B. primitive delusional fantasies
for food, but it doesn't choose to do either. It just does C. lack of control of aggressive drives
what it does. D. self-destructive behavior
59. Criticisms of _________ tend to involve the issue
A. Mask of whether or not, or to what degree, his theory is
B. Shadow scientific.
C. Darth Maul A. Ackerman
D. Sith B. Freud
C. Fromm
53. In an initial session with a social worker, a client D. Adler
mentions having been hospitalized several times for 60. He is widely regarded as one of the most eminent
depression. When the social worker attempts to thinkers in psychology. He is best known
explore the hospitalizations, the clientr becomes tense for developing the psychotherapy method called
and guarded, saying "it's old history". The client client-centered therapy and for being one of the
refuses to give permission for the records to be founders of humanistic psychology.
released. The social worker should FIRST: A. Carl-Gustav-Jung
A. explore why this topic appears to be B. Eric Fromm
upsetting the client C. Anna Freud
B. acknowledge the client's right to decide D. Carl Rogers
about release of records
C. reassure the client that the focus will be 61. A fifteen-year-old girl has been sent home from
on present issues school on three occasions for drinking alcohol at
D. assess the client's current level of school. Each time, the mother becomes angry and
depression threatens to punish the girl but is convinced by the
54. “Father of family therapy.” He primarily used a father to give her another chance. Which of the
psychoanalytic approach, insight oriented following BEST characterizes the father’s behavior in
A. Ackerman this situation?
B. Fritz A. triangulation
C. Whittaker B. enabling
D. Minahan C. advocating
D. manipulating
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62. Parents continually refuse to communicate with
their child who is in a residential treatment facility. The
social worker should FIRST:
A. respect the parent’s need for separation
by not contacting them
B. request that the child be discharged
C. contact the parents about the child’s
placement
D. assess the child’s response to the
parents’ actions
63. Common indicators of sexual, physical and
emotional abuse include all of the following EXCEPT:
A. violence against younger children
B. sexualized behavior
C. isolation
D. stuttering
64. The concept of gender roles is BEST defined as:
A. attitudes and behaviors attached to
individuals because of their sex
B. an individual’s sex orientation and/or
preference
C. biological characteristics that influence an
individual’s behavior
D. interplay of biological and sociocultural
influences
65. Which type of interviewing question is MOST likely
to generate client defensiveness?
A. open ended
B. closed
C. leading
D. why
66. When interviewing a client whose speech patterns
are different from the social worker’s; the social
worker’s PRIMARY consideration should be that:
A. communication patterns vary due to
economic conditions
B. speech is influenced by culture and
experience
C. psychosocial conditions will cause
variations in speech
D. speech is influenced by group taboos and
norms and may indicate false beliefs
67. The initial symptoms of schizophrenia MOST often
occur between which of the following years of age?
A. 6 to 12
B. 13 to 16
C. 17 to 45
D. 16 to 60
68. Which of the following approaches would be
MOST appropriate to use in evaluating client
satisfaction with the social worker’s provision of
services?
A. using a single system design, evaluate the
quality of services
B. in the final interview, ask the client about
their level of satisfaction
C. after submitting process recordings, ask
supervisor for feedback
D. at termination, ask clients to complete a
service evaluation and satisfaction form
69. When conducting an assessment of the risk
factors of child abuse for a child of a different ethnic
background, a social worker must FIRST:
A. be aware of how personal cultural biases
affect the social worker’s ability to deal with
issues of diversity
B. realize that assessment models are not a
substitute for clinical judgment or experience
C. use a strengths’ perspective rather than a
deficit model to form a partnership with the
child’s family
D. understand the need for appropriate eye
contact, tone of voice and question
techniques during the assessment
70. A social worker is receiving a client with long-
standing depression. It becomes known that the client
has racist beliefs. The social worker should:
A. respectfully confront the client’s
prejudiced beliefs
B. educate the client about the negative
effects of racism
C. refer the client to another therapist who
might have similar belief
D. respect the client’s beliefs and focus on
the presenting problem
71. Horney had one more way of looking at neurosis
-- in terms of self-images. For Horney, the self is the
core of your being, your potential. If you were healthy,
you would have an accurate conception of who you
are, and you would then be free to realize that
potential
A. The Self
B. Self-determination
C. Self-image
D. Self- perception
72. 4. In the ______________, we are fascinated with
our "bodily functions."
A. Anal Stage
B. Phallic Stage
C. Latency
D. Genital
73. When constructing a table to represent Jean
Piaget’s Cognitive Developmental Stages, it is not
considered a mistake to increase the age counts by 1.
A. True
B. False
C. All of the above
D. None of the Above
74. This tends to focus on man's search for meaning
and purpose in life
A. Pragmatic
B. Pragmatism
C. Existence
D. Existentialism
75. Which of the following choices listed below is not
a good practice when not the scientific method?
A. Precision
B. Dogmatism
C. Bias
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D. None of the Above C. No theory is used unless it is necessary

76. When a person is experiencing chronic distress, D. Through the entire helping process
what could this imply? 87. Which of the theorist listed below is the best to
A. This person is a neurotic use when working with groups?
B. This person could be experiencing A. Abraham Maslow
neurosis B. Sigmund Freud
C. This person is infected with covid-19 C. Karen Horney
D. This person is paranoid D. None of the above
77. The client of a social agency is like all the other 88. Social workers do not blame the client for being
persons we have ever known, but he is different too. incapable of solving his problems, neither the worker
A. Individualization blames him/her for being the cause of a particular
B. Self-determination problem
C. Uniqueness A. Individualization
D. Universalization B. Self-determination
78. This is a fundamental social work principle that C. Confidentiality
implies a sincere understanding of clients D. Acceptance
A. Confidentiality E. Non-Judgmental Attitude
B. Non-Judgmental Attitude 89. As a Social Worker where your client has been
C. Acceptance consistently lying about the information he is giving
D. Understanding you and you have caught the client to be lying on
79. The feminine soul within man. every turn of your sessions, yet the client is never late
A. Animals nor absent during scheduled sessions and when
B. Anima confronted he always insists that he needs your help.
C. Anema What is the FIRST thing you should do as the client’s
D. Anemia worker?
A. Quickly refer the client to a psychiatrist
80-81 Which of the Three choices below is part of B. Confront the client again he stops lying
Alfred Adlers Birth Order C. Call a local psychiatrist and inform of the
A. First Born son client exhibiting possible symptoms of
B. 2nd Born, 3rd born and so on, the middle compulsive lying and may need proper
son medication
C. Only child D. none of the above
D. Only B and A 90. Behaviorism, with its emphasis on experimental
E. Only C methods, focuses on variables we can observe,
83. According to Alfred Adler, one of a person’s measure, and manipulate, and avoids whatever is
motivation when striving for perfection is the innate subjective, internal, and unavailable -- i.e. mental. In
feeling of inferiority. Which of the choices below is A the experimental method, the standard procedure is to
person’s way to respond to the feeling of inferiority. manipulate one variable, and then measure its effects
A. Abusing others on another. All this boils down to a theory of
B. Compensation personality that says that one’s environment causes
C. Communication one’s behavior.
D. Isolation
A. Albert Bandura
B. Environmental Learning Theory
84. A neurotic need characterized by being
C. Ackerman
undemanding form others or being easily satisfied D. Otto Rank
A. Need for a powerful partner 91. B.F. Skinner was the propent of the”
B. Need for affection A. Social Learning Theory
C. Need for restricting one’s life to narrow B. Operant Conditioning
borders C. Classical Conditioning
D. Need for unassailability D. Observational Learning theory

85. When does the helping process begin? 92. If a person in his adult age, is currently a
A. Intake alcoholic; using the psychosexual development of
B. As soon as the client walks in the door Sigmund Freud, what stage where his needs was not
C. As soon as there is an agreement met?
between the client and the worker of their relationship A. Anal
D. Assessment B. Oral
86. When making a case study of a client’s situation, C. Phallic
when are personality theories used? D. Genital
A. Assessment
B. Assessment and treatment planning
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93. Emotions are an integral part of human life and methods of social work Case Management, Group
people experience a range of feelings. Clients need to Work and Community Organizing.
have opportunities to express their feelings freely.
A. Purposeful expression of feeling
B. Acceptance
C. Non-judgmental attitude
D. Self-determination
94.  The inner perception of others' emotions, as a
basic tool to guide their dealings with other people.
A. Pakiramdam
B. Utang na loob
C. Kagandahang loob
D. Karangalana

95. This attitude is characterized by being courageous

in the midst of problems and uncertainties
A. Lakas ng loob
B. Pakikibaka
C. Pakiramdam
D. Lakas ng katawan
96. The internal aspect of dignity. May refer to how a
person judges his own worth.
A. Dangal
B. Karangalan
C. Hiya
D. Lakas ng loob

97. Your client named Mark Floyd is a homo sexual,

what theory is best used to describe the gender
preference of mark.
A. Psychoanalysis
B. Psychosexual
C. Oedipus Crisis
D. None of the above
98. He noted that _________________can be
characterized as reactive, past-oriented, and, of
course, biological.
A. Opportunistic Functioning
B. The ID
C. The Ego
D. Propriate Functioning

99. During the development of his theory he

proposed that “some needs take precedence over
others. “

A. Abraham Maslow
B. Otto Rank
C. Mark Agit
D. Mark Floyd
100. Assuming that your long-time client named Mark
Agit, was recently heartbroken because his lover left
him, as a social worker what should you do?
A. Invite the client for a night out
B. Refer to a psychiatrist
C. Leave him alone
D. Let the client ventilate
101. – 150
Enumerate at least 10 theorists and explain their
respective theories with application to the 3 core