Social Work
This type of social work intervention focuses on providing direct services to individuals, helping them manage personal challenges like mental health or substance abuse.
What is clinical social work?
This learning theory, pioneered by B.F. Skinner, focuses on how behaviors can be shaped through reinforcement and punishment.
What is operant conditioning?
This financial ratio compares a company's net income to its shareholder equity, commonly used to assess profitability.
What is Return on Equity? or What is ROE?
This basic law of physics states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
This anxiety disorder is characterized by an intense fear of social situations and a fear of being judge or embarrassed by others.
What is social anxiety disorder?
This theory, developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner, highlights the importance of different environmental layers (family, school, community) in shaping individual development.
What is ecological theory?
This educational theory by Jean Piaget identifies stages in cognitive development, such as sensorimotor, concrete operational, and formal operational.
What is cognitive development theory?
This economic theory argues that governments should not interfere with market forces, believing that an economy functions best when it operates without restrictions or regulations.
What is Laissez-Faire economics?
The process by which a cell divides into two identical daughter cells, fundamental to growth and repair, is called this.
What is mitosis?
This theory of motivation, proposed by Abraham Maslow, suggests that human needs are arranged in a hierarchy, starting with physiological needs and progressing to self-actualization.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
This approach in social work uses methods like solution-focused therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to address mental health issues.
What is brief therapy?
This method of assessing students involves regular, formative tests that provide ongoing feedback, as opposed to final exams at the end of the term.
What is formative assessment?
This marketing strategy involves creating a unique image or perception of a product in the minds of consumers, aiming to differentiate it from competitors' offerings.
What is product positioning?
This process involves the manipulation of an organism's DNA to achieve desired traits or to produce substances like insulin.
What is genetic engineering?
This type of therapy developed by Aaron Beck, focuses on identifying and challenging irrational thoughts and cognitive distortions that contribute to emotional distress.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy? or What is CBT?
This act, passed in 1965, is considered a landmark in providing federal support for the education and welfare of children in low-income families.
What is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act? or What is ESEA?
This educational theory advocated for learning environments that allow students to construct their own knowledge, emphasizing hands-on experiences.
What is constructivism?
This management theory, developed by Frederick Taylor, advocated for the optimization of worker efficiency through task specialization and performance-based pay.
What is Scientific Management?
In chemistry, this law explains that the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to its pressure at a constant temperature.
What is Boyle's Law?
This famous psychological experiment, conducted by Stanley Milgram, studied how far individuals would go in obeying authority figures, even when asked to perform harmful actions.
What is the Milgram experiment?
This concept within social work practice refers to the examination of societal structures and power dynamics that lead to inequality and marginalization of certain groups.
What is critical theory?
This concept, proposed by Paulo Freire, critiques traditional education as a "banking model" and advocated for an education system that empowers students to be critical thinkers and agents of change.
What is critical pedagogy?
This term in corporate governance refers to the process of ensuring that a company's activities are aligned with its stakeholder' interests, with particular attention to managing risks and maintaining ethnical practices.
What is corporate social responsibility? or What is CSR?
This mathematical field focuses on solving problems in calculus and real analysis by studying the properties and structures of vector spaces, often used in quantum mechanics.
What is functional analysis?
This term refers to the psychological phenomenon in which individuals conform to group norms, even if those norms conflict with their own beliefs.
What is groupthink?