Social Work Previous Year Question And Answers
1. Robert Redfield’s famous book
(A) The Little Community
(B) The Small Community
(C) The Large Community
(D) The Big Community
Answer: (A)
2. Emotional disorders in which an individual remains oriented to reality but suffers from
chronic anxiety is
(A) Schizophrenia
(B) Depression
(C) Paranoid states
(D) Neuroses
Answer: (D)
3. One of the following theories is known as growth oriented theory
(A) Psycho analytic theory
(B) Client-Centred theory
(C) Existential theory
(D) Cognitive learning theory
Answer: (B)
4. A concept made measurable is called
(A) Attribute
(B) Variable
(C) Theory
(D) None of the above
Answer: (B)
5. Intervening variables can be controlled by
(A) Randomization
(B) Conceptualisation
(C) Description
(D) None of the above
Answer: (A)
6. Which government body promotes measures for care and protection of persons with disability
in the event of death of their parents or guardians?
(A) Child Welfare Committee
(B) Central Social Welfare Board
(C) National Trust
(D) National Handicapped Finance and Development Corporation
Answer: (C)
7. The author of the book, ‘Practice of Social Research-Social Work perspectives’ is
(A) D.K. Lal Das
(B) H.B. Trecker
(C) J. Galtung
(D) Nan Lin
Answer: (A)
8. Detachment from work, inability to accomplish goals and emotional discharge is known as
(A) Blockade
(B) Burnout
(C) Ambiguity
(D) Lockout
Answer: (B)
9. Which conference has brought in the concept of sustainable development?
(A) The Rio Conference[Link]
(B) The Doha Conference
(C) The Montreal Conference
(D) None of the above
Answer: (A)
10. One of the following is not an aim of social policy.
(A) Balancing trade policies
(B) Elimination of poverty
(C) Maximization of welfare
(D) Pursuit of equality
Answer: (A)
11. ‘Agoraphobia’ is the fear of
(A) Height
(B) Blood
(C) Crowd
(D) Animal
Answer: (C)
12. Scientific attitude is based on
(A) Wishful thinking
(B) Spiritual thinking
(C) Consistent thinking
(D) Devotional thinking
Answer: (C)
13. ‘Concentric circle theory’ is associated with
(A) Peoples’ participation
(B) Economic status of the country
(C) Hydrological system
(D) Monitoring system
Answer: (A)
14. Who defined ‘Statistics as the Science of estimates and probabilities’?
(A) Bodington
(B) Bowley
(C) Fisher
(D) Agarwal
Answer: (A)
15. Regression is
(A) The measure of the average relationship between two or more variables in terms of the
original units of data.[Link]
(B) Based on the assumption that the data being studied is normally distributed.
(C) The sum of the differences of two variables.
(D) Deviations that are taken from an assumed mean.
Answer: (A)
16. After passing of a bill in both the houses of Parliament and after President’s assent, within
how many days the bill should come into force?
(A) 30
(B) 31
(C) 60
(D) None of the above
Answer: (A)
17. Determinant of population growth is
I. Family
II. Marriage
III. Economy
IV. Fertility
Codes:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) Only IV is correct.
Answer: (D)
18. ‘Sturdy beggars,’ is a term used for
(A) Beggars begging at religious places.
(B) The able-bodied beggars
(C) A class of beggars who are handicapped.
(D) Beggars who beg in a particular season.
Answer: (B)
19. ‘Reaching inside the silence’ is a skill that refers to
(A) Efforts to explore the meaning of the client’s silence.
(B) Efforts to explore the means to break the client’s silence.
(C) Efforts to deepen the client’s silence.
(D) Efforts to encourage client to be silent who speaks more.
Answer: (A)
20. Select the correct sequence of organizational growth
(A) Consolidation, initiation, expansion and termination.
(B) Initiation, consolidation, expansion and termination.
(C) Initiation, expansion, consolidation and termination.
(D) Initiation, expansion, termination and consolidation.
Answer: (C)
21. Encoding is essential for
(A) Sender
(B) Receiver
(C) Message
(D) None
Answer: (A)
22. World No Tobacco day is observed on
(A) 31st January
(B) 31st May
(C) 31st July
(D) 31st August
Answer: (B)
23. In classical conditioning, what happens to a neutral stimulus after it is associated with the
unconditioned stimulus? It becomes
(A) A conditioned stimulus.
(B) Conditioned response.
(C) Unconditioned response.
(D) A phobia.
Answer: (A)
24. Emotionally intellectual person can
(A) Accurately perceive emotions.
(B) Think without emotions.
(C) Disregards emotional meaning.
(D) has difficulty in managing own emotions.
Answer: (A)
25. Murry G. Ross suggested 3 approaches for community organization i.e. specific content
approach and generic content approach. The third approach is
(A) Problem approach
(B) Process approach
(C) Propaganda approach
(D) Planning approach
Answer: (B)
26. The defence mechanism
(A) Emerges randomly.
(B) Helps individuals cope with their internal and external state of anxiety and distress.
(C) Cannot be brought under conscious control to ward of anxiety.
(D) Operate to maintain a sense of serenity.
Answer: (B)
27. Social structures are
(A) Those aspects of a culture that are held in high regard, are desirable and therefore worthy of
emulation.
(B) Principles of right and wrong actions and the rules & laws that govern the acceptable
&unacceptable behaviour.
(C) Made up of a set of expectations about low people should behave in certain circumstances.
(D) Methods of placing people in social strata.
Answer: (D)
28. Without warmth the professional social worker may be ‘technically correct but
therapeutically impotent’ has been said by
(A) Mary Richmond
(B) Florance Hollis
(C) Goldstein
(D) Gordon Hamilton
Answer: (C)
29. Who gave the three dimensional model of personality – the child, the adult, the parent?
(A) Sigmund Freud
(B) Otto Rank
(C) Eric Berne
(D) Joseph Wolpe
Answer: (C)
30. Behavioural modification involves
(A) Solving problems through insight.
(B) Bringing behaviour under stimulus control.
(C) Demonstrating learning in the absence of reinforcement.
(D) Application of learning principles to change behaviour.
Answer: (D)
