Second Week

HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT

Essay.

1. List down the stages of human growth and development. Include the psychological conflicts present in each stage.
2. Identify two general causes of problem of social functioning.
3. State briefly the major advanced by the following behaviorists in their respective theories of human behavior.
4. List at least five community forces which influence growth behavior and discuss briefly how each force affects group behavior.
5. Identify 2 Filipino cultural values and explained how each value could facilitate or block social developmental efforts.

Multiple Choice.

Instructions: Read the questions carefully. Do not be in a hurry. Pray to God for help. Be sure you know how to justify your answers.
Review your answers.

1. The social work curriculum area concerned with understanding the client in his problem situation, the dynamics of individual
and group behavior; of group and community processes and normal and deviant behavior.
a. Social Welfare Policies and Program
b. Social work methods
c. Field Practice
d. Human Behavior and Social Environment

2. The issues of security versus freedom and privacy, largely as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 is an
example of ______.
a. Value clusters
b. Value contradictions
c. Folkways
d. Cultural diffusions

3. A socio-economic phenomenon characterized by deprivation brought about by a cause and effects relationship resulting in a
cyclical processes.
a. Jealousy
b. Drug addiction
c. AIDS
d. Poverty

4. People who considered themselves related by blood, marriage or adoption are ______.
a. A household
b. A family
c. Relatives
d. None of the above
5. Central focus of concern is around the mouth.
a. Oral-sensory
b. Maturity
c. Locomotor-genital
d. Latency

6. That phase of group development characterized by dependency and the major task.
a. Formative phase
b. Beginning phase
c. Intermediate phase
d. Termination

7. A pluralistic society ______.

a. Is made up of different groups
 b. Tends to discourage subcultures
c. Does not have core values
d. No longer exists in the world

8. This famous psychiatrist believed that experiences in early childhood play a significant role in the information of personality.
a. Heinz Hartman
b. Sigmund Freud
c. Charles Brenner
d. Gordon W. Allport

9. The process of influencing the activities of an individual or a group toward the achievement of a goal or objective.
a. Relationship
b. Influence
c. Power
d. Leadership

10. Norms of endogamy specify that people should ______.

a. Marry outside their group
b. Marry designated relatives
c. Marry within their group
d. Not get married more than once

11. Represents the moral percepts of the mind.

a. Id
b. Superego
c. Ego
d. Libido

12. Verbal and non-verbal exchange of ideas, values and feelings.

a. Sociometric pattern
b. Communication
c. Relationship
d. Gang war

13. Pervades all areas of one’s life-way of thinking, acting, loving and receiving love, approaching and relating to God and people,
religious experiences, etc.
a. Vocation
b. Education
c. Sexuality
d. Socialization

14. Tensions relating to need for security, orderliness, protective rules and general risk avoidance.
a. Ego needs
b. Social needs
c. Security needs
d. Self-actualization

15. Industrial science referring particularly to the replacement of skilled labor by modern machinery.
a. Ecosystem
b. Industrialization
c. Technology
d. Development

16. The spontaneous pick-up or imitation by others of the behavior initiated by a member of the group.
 a. Social process
b. Acculturation
c. Behavior contagion
d. Social interaction

17. When a group just can’t get going.

a. Work
b. Sluggish
c. Competitive
d. Cooperative

18. Regarded the dynamics of personality as a product of three systems in the structure.
a. Maslow
b. Erickson
c. Sigmund Freud
d. Jung

19. A two-fold attitude toward both parents: on the one hand a wish to eliminate the jealousy-hated father and take his place in a
sensual relationship with the mother and on the other hand, a wish to eliminate the jealousy hated mother.
a. Love
b. Oedipus complex
c. Crash
d. Ambivalence

20. Process by which society borrows from the culture of the other without losing its identity.
a. Amalgamation
b. Accommodation
c. Acculturation
d. Assimilation

21. Refers to such item as morale, feelings tone, atmosphere, influence, participation, leadership, struggles, conflicts, etc.
a. Contagion
b. Group process or dynamics
c. Diffusion
d. Relationship

22. Standards or ground rules which control the behavior of the group members.
a. Norms
b. Power
c. Conflict
d. Values

23. Behaviors which facilitate good and harmonious working relationships among the group members.
a. Task functions
b. Maintenance functions
c. Relationship
d. Rapport

24. A most sensible approach to reducing resistance to change is to mobilize the participation of those who will ______.
a. Approve the change
b. Administer the change
c. Be affected by the change
d. Evaluate the change
25. Functionalist perspective proposes that ______.
a. When the parts of society are working properly, each contribute to the stability of society.
b. Schools have assume many functions previously fulfilled by the family
c. The education system helps pass privilege (or lack thereof) across generations
d. Both A and B are correct

26. Behavior characterized by an “I don’t care” attitude.

a. Laissez-faire
b. Democratic
c. Autocratic
d. Atheist

27. Social work principles have their roots in this basic belief.
a. Man is a rational being
b. Man will comply to the will of a strong person
c. Man has dignity and worth
d. Man is guided by his values and motives

28. The idea that population grows geometrically and the food supply only increases arithmetically is known as the ______.
a. Durkheim theorem
b. Malthus theorem
c. Marx theorem
d. Weber theorem

29. This stage of personality development involves the resolution of a basic conflict: autonomy vs. shame and doubt.
a. Adolescence
b. Oral
c. Anal
d. Latency

30. A social worker needs to sustain the interest and motivation of a group in its first income generating project due to the possible
danger of ______.
a. Pakikisama
b. Ningas-cogon
c. Utang na loob
d. Bayanihan

31. A 16-year old child is expected to show characteristics of a girl/boy in this stage of development.
a. Latency
b. Old age
c. Adulthood
d. Adolescence

32. Stage of stubbornness

a. Senility
b. Oral stage
c. Middle stage
d. Anal stage

33. This value means being taken by one’s fellow for what he is or believes he is and being treated in accordance with this status is
known as ______.
a. Saving-face
b. Social acceptance
c. Pakikisama
 d. Personalism

34. The number of children that the average woman bears is the ______ rate.
a. Menarche
b. Fecundity
c. Fertility
d. Crude birth

35. The crude death rate is the number of deaths per ______ population.
a. 1000
b. 10,000
c. 100,000
d. 1,000,000

36. Lita has been asked to figure growth rate for last year in the Philippines. To accomplish this, Lita will use the basic demographic
equation, which reads ______.
a. Births + deaths + net migration = growth rate
b. Births + deaths – net migration = growth rate
c. Births – deaths + net migration = growth rate
d. Births – deaths – net migration = growth rate

37. To protect himself from factors that threaten him, man resorts to ______.
a. Sibling rivalry
b. Migration
c. Defense mechanism
d. Crisis situation

38. Persons who manifest personality disorganizations when confronted with trying situations and difficulties in life.
a. drug addicts
b. alcoholics
c. psychoneurotics
d. war lords

39. Saying what one really thinks when he feels it should be expressed, rather than keeping one’s ideas, opinions and feelings to
oneself.
a. Leveling with the group
b. Goal-setting
c. Rewarding
d. Rapport

40. An example of a condition which hinders effective communications.

a. Hostility
b. Fatalism
c. Oedipus complex
d. Electra complex

41. The motivation-hygiene theory was developed by ______.

a. Argyris
b. Herzberg
c. Maslow
d. Freud

42. The atmosphere that prevails when group members completely disagree with one another on the topic to be discussed,
decisions to be made, or action to be taken.
 a. Flight
b. Fight
c. Laissez-faire
d. Sluggish

43. When a group member makes a suggestion which gets no response from the group as a whole, it results in a ______.
a. Self-authorized decisions
b. Problem consensus
c. Hand clap
d. Flop

44. The process of influencing the activities of an individual or a group in efforts toward goal achievement in a given situation.
a. Motivation
b. Identification
c. Leadership
d. Task goal

45. A style of leader behavior often based on the assumption that the leader’s power is derived from the position he occupies and
that man is innately lazy and unreliable.
a. Authoritarian
b. Theory x
c. Laissez-faire
d. Sluggish

46. Everything that surrounds an individual.

a. Family
b. Environment
c. Community
d. Society

47. “Laying cards on the table and looking at them as they are”.
a. Confrontation
b. Play
c. Flight
d. Fixation

48. Factors pushing someone to migrate include ______.

a. Poverty
b. Lack of religious and political freedom
c. Political persecution
d. All of the above

49. The transformation of traditional societies into industrial societies, according to Weber, was called ______.
a. The spirit of capitalism
b. Sociology
c. Modernization
d. Cultural diffusion

50. The act or process of becoming like someone or something in one or similar aspects of behavior or thought.
a. Projection
b. Identification
c. Ego-esteem
d. Pleasure principle
51. Type of stress produced when a person is motivated by two or more needs in such a fashion that the satisfaction of one need
may mean the dissatisfaction of another need.
a. Multi-problem
b. Conflict
c. Deprivation
d. Tension

52. According to this theory, needs are the primary influence on an individual’s behavior.
a. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
b. Blueler’s theory
c. Murry’s theory of needs
d. Erik Erikson’s theory

53. Refers to sensitivity to personal affront and functions to protect the individual against loss of social acceptance.
a. “utang na loob”
b. “pakikisama”
c. Amor propio
d. Alienation

54. Concept based on the proposition that the human mind functions in a dualistic way that conflict between opposing tendencies
often results.
a. Ambivalence
b. Oedipus complex
c. Deviation
d. Neurosis

55. The principle which means that no two persons are exactly alike.
a. Individualization
b. Self-concept
c. Personality
d. Role

56. The expression of the interaction between man and his environment.
a. Integration
b. Social functioning
c. Helping relationship
d. Partnership

57. Refers to skillful management of resources and persons.

a. Sensitivity
b. Strategy
c. Manipulation
d. Non-judgmental attitude

58. When one is trying to be sensitive to non-verbal communication, he is making use of his ______.
a. Third ear
b. Goal
c. Focus
d. Learning

59. Needs that represent an individual’s need for self-respect, for the respect of others, and for a stable positive evaluation of
himself.
a. Self-actualization
b. Safety needs
 c. Esteem needs
d. Social needs

60. The external markings and trappings that visibly distinguish and rank people in relation to one another.
a. Status
b. Personalism
c. Social values
d. Social acceptance

61. Communication involves the use of ______.

a. Timing
b. Symbols
c. Status
d. Morals

62. The most critical period for the proper development of body structures and mental development.
a. Ages 1-5
b. Ages 10-12
c. Ages 16-20
d. Ages 20-30

63. Women usually ages 15 to 20 who are victims of rape, prostitution, exploitation, maltreatment and emotionally disturbed are
considered as ______.
a. Facilitators
b. Practitioners
c. Volunteers
d. Socially disadvantaged women

64. A procedure designed to cure or alleviate some disorder is known as ______.

a. Liberation
b. Small talk
c. Therapy
d. Differential diagnosis

65. It is denying certain aspects of an experience because they are not in accordance with one’s idealized self-image.
a. Blind spots
b. Denial
c. Repression
d. Deadma

66. Social functioning problems which are usually characterized by wrong values and attitudes, poor physical health, ignorance, lack
of skills, etc.
a. Crisis intervention
b. Handicapped
c. Value system
d. Personal inadequacy

67. Interpersonal relations, money, status, security may be referred to as ______.

a. Hygiene factors
b. Social expectations
c. Concept of provision
d. Prioritizing

68. Restoration, maintenance or enhancement of the client’s capacity to adapt.

 a. Direct provision model
b. Clinical model
c. Mobilization
d. Fish-up approach

69. ______ tells us about the nature of Filipino life and culture, reflect our values and ethics, and provide us with insights on the
psychology of our people.
a. Legends
b. Proverbs
c. Rural social work
d. Social welfare history

70. Refers to the right and need of the client to make his own choices and decisions in the process of being helped.
a. Self-determination
b. Individuality
c. Privacy
d. “See-saw” approach

71. The technique which involves bringing to the surface the feelings and attitudes that need to be brought out because it is
affecting the functioning of the person involved.
a. Ventilation
b. Helping relationship
c. Problem-solving
d. Transference

72. The conflict present in adulthood.

a. Autonomy vs. shame & doubt
b. Trust vs. mistrust
c. Generativity vs. stagnation
d. Industry vs. inferiority

73. Often influence people’s choices and decisions.

a. Social legislation
b. Felt need
c. Behavioral modification
d. Value system

74. Stage when play becomes an important means by which the client’s emotional and social development takes place.
a. Oral stage
b. Middle stage
c. Latency
d. Locomotor-genital

75. The spontaneous pick-up or imitation by other of the behavior initiated by a member of the group.
a. Accommodation
b. Acculturation
c. Diffusion
d. Behavior contagion

76. Durkheim said a religion is define by all the following except ______.
a. Authoritarian personalities
b. Beliefs
c. Practices
d. Moral communities
77. People need to analyze the power structure to ______.
a. Avoid being identified
b. Be allowed with the powerful
c. Determine who are the potential enemies in the change
d. Identify who can be mobilized to effect change

78. Those functions that relate directly to the task project or problem that the group is working on.
a. Maintenance functions
b. Task functions
c. Self-oriented functions
d. Human development functions
Answer key:

(Human Behavior and Social Environment – 2 nd Week)

1. D 21. B 41. B 61. B

2. B 22. A 42. B 62. A
3. D 23. B 43. D 63. D
4. B 24. B 44. C 64. C
5. A 25. D 45. B 65. A
6. B 26. A 46. B 66. D
7. A 27. C 47. A 67. B
8. B 28. B 48. D 68. B
9. D 29. C 49. B 69. B
10. C 30. B 50. B 70. A
11. B 31. D 51. B 71. A
12. B 32. A 52. A 72. C
13. C 33. B 53. C 73. D
14. C 34. C 54. A 74. C
15. C 35. A 55. A 75. D
16. C 36. C 56. B 76. A
17. B 37. C 57. C 77. D
18. C 38. C 58. A 78. B
19. B 39. A 59. C
20. C 40. A 60. A