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Ch4 The Psychological Person Cognition, Full Test Bank

Chapter 4: The Psychological Person: Cognition, Emotion, and Self

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. A person’s conscious or preconscious thinking processes are ______.

a. egocentrism

b. cognition

c. affect

d. emotion

Learning Objective: 4-2: Define cognition and emotion.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognition and Emotion

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. A feeling state that is characterized by our appraisal of a stimulus, by changes in bodily sensations, and by displays of expressive gestures is ______.

a. mood

b. cognition

c. affect

d. emotion

Learning Objective: 4-2: Define cognition and emotion.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognition and Emotion

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. A term which refers only to the physiological manifestations of feelings is ______.

a. mood

b. cognition

c. affect

d. emotion

Learning Objective: 4-2: Define cognition and emotion.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognition and Emotion

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. A feeling disposition that is stable, less intense, and less tied to a specific situation is ______.

a. mood

b. cognition

c. affect

d. emotion

Learning Objective: 4-2: Define cognition and emotion.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognition and Emotion

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. A systematic pattern of thought, action, and problem solving that is an internalized representation of the world is ______.

a. modeling

b. imitation

c. cognitive operations

d. schema

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognitive Theory

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Bob, a 12-year-old, watched his father always open the door for his mother and does the same for girls at school. This is an example of what kind of learning?

a. developmental learning

b. social learning

c. direct learning

d. personal learning

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Theories of Cognition in Social Work Practice

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Bob has learned through his own experience that it is better to work on your homework right after school than to wait until right before bed. This is an example of what kind of learning?

a. developmental learning

b. social learning

c. direct learning

d. personal learning

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cognitive Theory

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. When Dan responds to an experience based on his existing pattern of thought, action, and problem solving, this is known as ______.

a. assimilation

b. cognitive operation

c. accommodation

d. information processing

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognitive Theory

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Greg is usually a very assertive person but recently experienced a situation where his boss was very angry, which had never happened before. Greg became very passive and quiet. His response is one of ______.

a. assimilation

b. cognitive operation

c. accommodation

d. information processing

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cognitive Theory

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Emotions that mobilize us, focus our attention, and signal our state of mind to others are ______.

a. focused emotions

b. primary emotions

c. secondary emotions

d. social emotions

Learning Objective: 4-4: Compare and contrast four major categories of theories of emotion (physiological theories, psychological theories, social theories, and social work practice theories).

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Theories of Emotion

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Emotions that are socially acquired are ______.

a. focused emotions

b. social emotions

c. primary emotions

d. secondary emotions

Learning Objective: 4-4: Compare and contrast four major categories of theories of emotion (physiological theories, psychological theories, social theories, and social work practice theories).

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Theories of Emotion

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. The belief that our experience of emotion is based on the conscious evaluations we make about physiological sensations in particular social settings, or that cognition produces emotions, is referred to as ______.

a. attribution theory

b. symbolic interactionalism

c. information processing theory

d. cognitive mediation

Learning Objective: 4-4: Compare and contrast four major categories of theories of emotion (physiological theories, psychological theories, social theories, and social work practice theories).

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Attribution Theory: A Cognitive Perspective

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Billy is in trouble with his parents for breaking his little sister’s toy on purpose. He hides in his room to avoid punishment. Which stage of Kohlberg’s moral development does this situation define?

a. postconventional morality

b. preconventional morality

c. reasoned morality

d. personal morality

Learning Objective: 4-4: Compare and contrast four major categories of theories of emotion (physiological theories, psychological theories, social theories, and social work practice theories).

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Theories of Moral Reasoning

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. A theory that is based on the primacy of internal drives and unconscious mental activity is ______.

a. cognitive theory

b. cognitive-behavioral theory

c. psychoanalytic theory

d. ego psychology theory

Learning Objective: 4-4: Compare and contrast four major categories of theories of emotion (physiological theories, psychological theories, social theories, and social work practice theories).

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Theory

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. ______ continues to be influential in social work through the theories of ego psychology, self-psychology, and relational theory.

a. Cognitive theory

b. Physiological theory

c. Social theory

d. Psychoanalytic theory

Learning Objective: 4-4: Compare and contrast four major categories of theories of emotion (physiological theories, psychological theories, social theories, and social work practice theories).

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Theory

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. The concept of self as an ongoing process of experience, a process of learning, a process to which there is no end, is incorporated in the philosophy and practice of ______.

a. humanistic theory

b. existentialism

c. ego psychology

d. psychodynamic perspective

Learning Objective: 4-6: Compare and contrast six perspectives on the self (as soul, as unfolding potentials, as organizing activity, as cognitive structure, as shared symbolic experience, and as flow of experience).

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Self as a Flow of Experience

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. A major approach to social work practice with the premise that all of us are engaged in an ongoing process of constructing a life story that determines our understanding of ourselves is ______.

a. narrative theory

b. cognitive theory

c. cognitive-behavioral theory

d. ego psychology theory

Learning Objective: 4-6: Compare and contrast six perspectives on the self (as soul, as unfolding potentials, as organizing activity, as cognitive structure, as shared symbolic experience, and as flow of experience).

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Self as a Flow of Experience

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. Cognitive deficits are the ______.

a. result of brain damage

b. arbitrary inference

c. lack of information about a situation

d. misperception of the situation

Learning Objective: 4-5: Recognize how cognitive and emotional characteristics can be involved in cognitive and emotional “disorders.”

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Theories of Cognition in Social Work Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. According to cognitive theories, sources of problems for an individual may involve all of the following EXCEPT ______.

a. lack of emotion regulation

b. cognitive distortions

c. cognitive deficits

d. inaccurate assessments of the environment

Learning Objective: 4-5: Recognize how cognitive and emotional characteristics can be involved in cognitive and emotional “disorders.”

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Theories of Cognition in Social Work Practice

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. What is the DSM-5?

a. a theory of cognition

b. resource for clinical diagnoses

c. stories individuals learn to tell about themselves

d. part of the brain that regulates emotion

Learning Objective: 4-5: Recognize how cognitive and emotional characteristics can be involved in cognitive and emotional “disorders.”

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognitive/Emotional “Disorders”

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. Jean Piaget’s cognitive theory is best understood using which of the major theoretical perspectives?

a. conflict

b. systems

c. developmental

d. constructivist

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Cognitive Theory

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. In the theory of multiple intelligences, the brain is best understood as ______.

a. central unit that houses separate cognitive faculties

b. the mechanism for social learning

c. a single cognitive system

d. generating the capacity for moral intelligence

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Research findings on gender differences in moral reasoning suggest ______.

a. women have a greater capacity for moral reasoning

b. there are no conclusive statements that can be made at this time

c. men have a greater capacity for moral reasoning as they age

d. there are large differences between genders in the areas of justice and caring

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Theories of Moral Reasoning

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. Which concept of self may be closer to what we actually live than any of the other concepts?

a. cognitive structure

b. organizing activity

c. cohesion

d. flow of experience

Learning Objective: 4-6: Compare and contrast six perspectives on the self (as soul, as unfolding potentials, as organizing activity, as cognitive structure, as shared symbolic experience, and as flow of experience).

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Self as a Flow of Experience

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. The DSM provides ______.

a. a categorization of disorders diagnosed only in adulthood

b. a way to conceptualize social functioning as a mismatch between person and environment

c. a medical perspective to human functioning

d. the definitive and most comprehensive classification system of human functioning

Learning Objective: 4-5: Recognize how cognitive and emotional characteristics can be involved in cognitive and emotional “disorders.”

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognitive/Emotional “Disorders”

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. The section of the brain more focused on the external environment and on ‘rational’ functions is ______.

a. forebrain

b. hindbrain

c. midbrain

d. no section of the brain is focused on these functions

Learning Objective: 4-5: Recognize how cognitive and emotional characteristics can be involved in cognitive and emotional “disorders.”

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Physiological Theories of Emotion

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. Which theoretical perspective explains human beings as pleasure seekers and feelers, not as thinkers?

a. constructivist

b. developmental

c. systems

d. psychodynamic

Learning Objective: 4-4: Compare and contrast four major categories of theories of emotion (physiological theories, psychological theories, social theories, and social work practice theories).

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Theory

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. Affect refers to a feeling state characterized by our appraisal of a stimulus, which includes changes in bodily sensations, and displays of expressive gestures.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Define cognition and emotion.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognition and Emotion

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Mood is a feeling disposition that is more stable and less intense and less tied to a specific situation than emotion.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Define cognition and emotion.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognition and Emotion

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Direct learning takes place through watching and absorbing the experiences of others.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognitive Theory

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. The process of assimilation involves changing schemata when new situations cannot be incorporated within an existing one.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognitive Theory

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. The theory of information processing offers details about how our cognitive processes are organized.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Information Processing Theory

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. A theory which posits that we are motivated by nature to experience pleasure and avoid pain is social learning theory.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Social Learning Theory

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. A person’s sensitivity to and knowledge of what is right and wrong is known as morality.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Theories of Moral Reasoning

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. The common cognitive error of absolute thinking can be described as focusing only on the negative aspects of a situation and overlooking its positive aspects.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Theories of Cognition in Social Work Practice

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. The common cognitive error of personalization can be described as accepting blame for negative events without sufficient evidence.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Theories of Cognition in Social Work Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. The common cognitive error of overgeneralization can be described as creating large problems out of small ones.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Theories of Cognition in Social Work Practice

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Naturalist intelligence is one of the multiple intelligences identified by Howard Gardner.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

1. List and define Piaget’s stages of cognitive operations.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cognitive Theory

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. List the three abilities of intelligence as identified by Howard Gardner.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Define intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligence.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. List and describe Gilligan’s three stages of moral development.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Theories of Moral Reasoning

Difficulty Level: Hard

5. Define emotional intelligence and describe what it includes and involves.

Learning Objective: 4-4: Compare and contrast four major categories of theories of emotion (physiological theories, psychological theories, social theories, and social work practice theories).

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Theory of Emotional Intelligence

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. List and define three of the six concepts of the self.

Learning Objective: 4-6: Compare and contrast six perspectives on the self (as soul, as unfolding potentials, as organizing activity, as cognitive structure, as shared symbolic experience, and as flow of experience)

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Self

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Explain why theories of moral reasoning are important to social workers.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory; 4.4 Compare and contrast four major categories of theories of emotion (physiological theories, psychological theories, social theories, and social work practice theories).

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Theories of Cognition; Theories of Emotion

Difficulty Level: Hard

9. Identify concepts from cognitive theory and information processing theory that relate to Dan’s case study. Cite examples from his story to validate your points.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Cognitive Theory; Information Processing Theory; Case Study

Difficulty Level: Hard

10. Explain Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences and how it is a useful theory in working with clients. How might you, as Dan’s social worker, utilize positive implications of this theory to encourage him? In what areas of intelligence would you foster further development?

Learning Objective: 4-7: Apply knowledge of cognition, emotion, and self to recommend guidelines for social work engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Theory of Multiple Intelligences; Case Study

Difficulty Level: Hard

11. Identify the six concepts of the sense of self and define each concept. Explain how having an understanding of these concepts would be important for helping clients to develop a stronger sense of self.

Learning Objective: 4-6: Compare and contrast six perspectives on the self (as soul, as unfolding potentials, as organizing activity, as cognitive structure, as shared symbolic experience, and as flow of experience); 4.7 Apply knowledge of cognition, emotion, and self to recommend guidelines for social work engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Self

Difficulty Level: Hard

12. Explain how cognitive theories can be useful to social workers. Cite some examples of how you can use concepts from the various cognitive theories to help clients enhance problem-solving skills.

Learning Objective: 4-7: Apply knowledge of cognition, emotion, and self to recommend guidelines for social work engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Theories of Cognition

Difficulty Level: Hard

13. Explain how theories of emotion can be useful to social workers. Cite some examples of how you can use concepts from the various theories of emotion to help clients change their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

Learning Objective: 4-4: Compare and contrast four major categories of theories of emotion (physiological theories, psychological theories, social theories, and social work practice theories).

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Theories of Emotion

Difficulty Level: Hard

14. Compare and contrast cognitive theory, information processing theory, and social learning theory.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Compare and contrast five major theories of cognition (cognitive, information processing, social learning, multiple intelligences, moral reasoning) and cognitive behavioral intervention theory.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Theories of Moral Reasoning

Difficulty Level: Hard

16. Explain why symbolic interactionism is considered a resolution to the idea that person and environment are separate.

Learning Objective: 4-6: Compare and contrast six perspectives on the self (as soul, as unfolding potentials, as organizing activity, as cognitive structure, as shared symbolic experience, and as flow of experience).

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Self as Shared Symbolic Experience

Difficulty Level: Hard

17. Give two examples of disorders that feature cognitive symptoms.

Learning Objective: 4-5: Recognize how cognitive and emotional characteristics can be involved in cognitive and emotional “disorders.”

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognitive/Emotional “Disorders”

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. Give two examples or disorders that feature emotional symptoms.

Learning Objective: 4-5: Recognize how cognitive and emotional characteristics can be involved in cognitive and emotional “disorders.”

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognitive/Emotional “Disorders”

Difficulty Level: Easy

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