Theories
The trait-and-factor or actuarial approach asserts that
A. job selection is a long-term development process.
B. testing is an important part of the counseling process.
C. a counselor can match the correct person with the appropriate job.
D. b and c.
What is D. b and c.
Most experts in the field of career counseling would classify Roe, Brill, and Holland as (blank) theorists
A. behavior modification.
B. ego psychologists.
C. experiential.
D. personality.
What is D. personality.
AKA Structural theorists.
Most research in the area of career development and its relationship to students indicates that
A. a very high population of students in high school and at the junior high or middle school level wanted guidance in planning a career. Career interests are more stable after college.
B. students did not want career guidance despite its importance.
C. many students were too inflexible to benefit from career guidance.
D. high school students wanted career guidance but junior high school or middle school level students did not.
What is A. a very high population of students in high school and at the junior high or middle school level wanted guidance in planning a career. Career interests are more stable after college.
Some support from Roe's theory comes from.
A. the BDI.
B. the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV).
C. the Rorschach and the TAT.
D. the gestalt therapy movement.
What is C. the Rorschach and the TAT.
A client who says, " I feel I cannot really become an administrator in our agency because I am a woman" is showing an example of
A. gender bias.
B. counselor bias.
C. the trait-and-factor theory.
D. developmental theory and career choice.
What is A. gender bias.
Counselors who support John Holland's approach believe that
A. an appropriate job allows one to express his or her personality.
B. stereotypes cannot be considered relevant.
C. four major personality categories exist.
D. sublimation is a major factor in job selection.
What is A. an appropriate job allows one to express his or her personality.
Roe was the first career specialist to utilize a two-dimensional system of occupational classification utilizing
A. unconscious and preconscious.
B. fields and levels.
C. yin and yang.
D. transactional analysis nomenclature.
What is B. fields and levels.
Statistics reveal that
A. on average, a worker with a bachelor's degree earns over $10,000 a year more than a worker with a high school diploma.
B. fewer workers possess a high school diploma than ever before.
C. blue-collar jobs are growing faster than white-collar jobs.
D. older workers are slower than younger workers and have fewer skills.
What is A. on average, a worker with a bachelor's degree earns over $10,000 a year more than a worker with a high school diploma.
When career counselors speak of the OOH they are referring to the
A. Occupational Options Handbook.
B. Occupational Outlook Handbook.
C. Career Options Occupational Titles.
D. Optional Occupational Handbook.
What is B. Occupational Outlook Handbook.
Another career theorist who drew upon psychoanalytic doctrines was A. A. Brill. Brill emphasized (blank) as an ego defense mechanism.
A. subliminal.
B. sublimation.
C. repression.
D. rationalization.
What is B. sublimation.
Super's life-span theory emphasizes (blank) life stages.
A. five.
B. four.
C. three.
D. nine.
What is A. five.
Roe recognized the role of the unconscious mind in terms of career choice. Another theorist who emphasized the unconscious processes in this area of study was
A. Krumboltz.
B. Schein.
C. Super.
D. Bordin.
Who is D. Bordin.
The most effective method adults use to find jobs in the United States is
A. to see a state employment counselor for job leads.
B. to visit a private practice career counselor for job leads.
C. surfing the Web to find job leads.
D. securing information via ads in the newspaper.
What is D. securing information via ads in the newspaper.
In a lifetime an average person has
A. 10 to 15 jobs.
B. two jobs.
C. a single job and stays with it for his or her entire career.
D. about five jobs.
What is A. 10 to 15 jobs.
One trend is that women are moving into more careers that in the past were populated by males. Women workers are often impacted by the "glass ceiling phenomenon". Assuming that a counselor's behavior is influenced by the phenomenon, which statement would he most likely make when conducting a career counseling session with a female client who wants to advance to a higher position?
A. "Your ability to advance in the corporate world is generally based on your mother's attitude toward work. Can you tell me a little about that?"
B. "Actually, women can advance quite rapidly in the corporate world. I support you 100%. I'd say you should be optimistic and go for the position."
C. "Let's be rational: A woman can only advance so far. You really have very little if any chance of becoming a corporate executive. I'm here to help you cope with this reality."
D. "In most cases a female will work in a position that is at the same level as her father. Did your dad ever work as a corporate executive?"
What is C. "Let's be rational: A woman can only advance so far. You really have very little if any chance of becoming a corporate executive. I'm here to help you cope with this reality."
In the Gelatt model the predictive system deals with
A. personal likes, dislikes, and preferences.
B. personal rules.
C. alternatives and the probability of outcomes.
D. the Self-Directed search.
What is C. alternatives and the probability of outcomes.
Holland relied on a personality theory of career choice. Robert Hoppock's theory, based on the work of (blank) is also considered a personality approach.
A. Donald Super.
B. Robert Rosenthal.
C. David Wechsler.
D. Henry Murray.
Who is D. Henry Murray.
In the Dictionary of Occupational Titles each job was given a (blank) digit code
A. nine.
B. eight.
C. six.
D. five.
What is A. nine.
The SDS (available online or in print) score will reveal
A. career aptitude.
B. the personality via projective measures.
C. the individual's three highest scores based on Holland's personality types.
D. spillover personality tendencies.
What is C. the individual's three highest scores based on Holland's personality types.
A male client who hates his job is trying desperately to be the perfect father, husband, and family man. The phenomenon is best described as
A. the recency effect.
B. the leniency/strictness bias.
C. the compensatory effect.
D. spillover.
What is C. the compensatory effect.
Linda Gottfredson's developmental theory of career focuses on
A. fields and levels.
B. circumscription and compromise theory.
C. the career rainbow.
D. on the concept of career maturity, mainly.
What is B. circumscription and compromise theory.
Research into the phenomenon of career maturity reflects the work of
A. John Crites.
B. Anne Roe.
C. John Holland.
D. Nancy Schlossberg.
Who is A. John Crites.
At a case staffing, one career counselor says to another, "The client's disability suggests she can only physically handle sedentary work." This technically implies
A. the client will not need to lift over 10 pounds.
B. the client will not need to lift over 100 pounds.
C. the client will be standing a lot.
D. the client could walk or stand up to six hours daily.
What is A. the client will not need to lift over 10 pounds.
The Kuder Career Planning System (KCPS) would be appropriate for
A. K-12, postsecondary, and even adults.
B. children who have not completed the sixth grade.
C. kids who have taken the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT).
D. high school students.
What is A. K-12, postsecondary, and even adults.
The concept of job clubs as promoted by Azrin et al.
A. is very behavioristic.
B. is indicative of a client-centered approach.
C. is psychodynamic.
D. is appropriate, but not with disabled populations.
What is A. is very behavioristic.