Appraisal
The NCE is a(n) ____ test?
A. free choice
B. forced choice
C. Projective
D. intelligence
What is B. forced choice
Forced choice and also known as recognition items, this format is used to control for the "social desirability phenomenon" whish asserts that the person put the answer he/she feels is socially acceptable.
When a distribution of scores is not distributed normally statisticians call it?
A. gauss's curve
B. a symmetrical bell-shaped curve
C. a skewed distribution
D. an invalid distribution
What is C. a skewed distribution.
in a skewed distribution the left and right side of the curve are not mirror images. In a skewed distribution the mean, median and mode fall at different points.
According to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 (also known as the Buckley Amendment):
A. a parent can see hes/her daughter's middle-school record, B. an 18-year-old college student can view his/ her own educational record, C. a and b, D. a and b are both illegal
What is C. a and b.
Parents are able to request records of the client if they are under the age of 18, clients are able to request their own records at any time period. School counselors are told to keep records separate from the other school records and to make sure teachers/ professors are not able to see them.
When a structural therapist uses the term boundaries he or she really means?
A. the limits of the human mind
B. the limits of behavior in the family
C. the separation of the family members from their family of origin
D. the physical and psychological entities that separate individuals and subsystems from others in the family
What is D. the physical and psychological entities that separate individuals and subsystems from others in the family.
In this technique the family is seating is often altered and family members are placed at different distance from each other.
Which group would most likely avoid eye contact with the counselor and benefit from assertiveness training?
A. african/ black americans
B. asian americans
C. european americans
D. all of the above
What is asian americans.
What would measure would yield the highest level of reliability?
A. a TAT, projective test popular with psychodynamic helpers, B. the WAIS-III, a popular IQ test, C. the MMPI-2, a popular personality test, D. a very accurate scale
What is D. a very accurate scale.
in the real world physical measurements are more reliable than psychological ones.
If an experiment can be replicated by others with almost identical findings, then the experiment:
A. is impacted by the observer effect
B. is said to be a naturalistic observation
C. is the result of ethological observation
D. is said to be reliable
What is D. is said to be reliable
Reliability in the social sciences is also used in regard to testing to indicate consistency in measurement.
You are counseling your first cousin for depression, this is:
A. ethical
B. not actually an ethical issue
C. ethical if you continue to counsel her and refer her to a psychiatrist for an antidepressant
D. generally unethical as it would constitute a dual or so-called multiple relationship
What is D. generally unethical as it would constitute a dual or so-called multiple relationship.
A dual relationship results when a counselor have another significant relationship with the client that hinders objectivity.
In Minuchin's structural approach, clear boundaries are:
A. pathological
B. rigid
C. also called diffuse boundaries
D. ideal-firm yet flexible
What is D. ideal-firm yet flexible.
When boundaries are clear individuals in the family are supported and nurtured, but each has the freedom to be his/ her own person.
A doctoral student who begins working on his bibliography for his thesis would most likely utilize:
A. SPSS
B. ERIC, for primary and secondary resources
C. O"NET
D. a random number table or random number generation computer program
What is B. ERIC, for primary and secondary sources.
The Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) is a resource bank of scholarly literature and resources to help you complete your literature search before you begin writing.
Face validity refers to the extent that a test:
A. looks or appears to measure the intended attribute
B. measures a theoretical construct
C. appears to be constructed in an artistic fashion
D.appears to be constructed to job performance
What is A. looks or appears to measure the intended attribute.
face validity merely tells you whether the test look like it measures the intended trait.
A sociogram is to a counseling group as a scattergram is to:
A. the normal curve
B. the range
C. a correlation coefficient
D. the John Henry effect
What is C. a correlation coefficient.
A scattergram (scatterplot) is a pictorial diagram or graph of 2 variables being correlated.
The problem with the income sensitive or sliding fee scales ( based on the clients ability to pay) is that:
A. scales of this kind are unethical
B. scales of this nature are illegal
C. it is difficult to administer them in a fair manner
D. scales like this are used frequently; however, they are unethical and illegal
What is C. it is difficult to administer them in a fair manner.
Sliding fee scales, which are ethical and legal, quite popular with not-for-profit agencies, are often confused with the term amount waived, which refers to the amount a third partyer player did not cover.
___ was a pioneer in the early history of family therapy?
A. carl jung
B. david wechlsler
C. alfred adler
D. franz anton mesmer
What is C. Alfred Adler.
Adler opened over 30 child guidance clinics in Vienna in the 1920's
Ethics that a counselor should ___ all clients for group counseling?
A. diagnose
B. test
C. screen
D. a and b
What is C. screen.
Some clients are inappropriate for group work.
In the field of testing, validity refers to:
A. whether the test really measures what it purports to measure, B. whether the same test gives consistent measurement, C. the degree of cultural bias in a test, D. the fact that numerous tests measure the same trait
What is A. whether the test really measures what it purports to measure.
to be valid the test must measure what you want it to measure, a test whish is valid for one population is not necessarily valid for another group.
A platykurtic distribution would look approximately like:
A. the upper half of a bowling ball, B. the normal distribution, C. the upper half of a hot dog, lying on its side over the abscissa, D. a camel's back
What is C. the upper half of a hot dog, lying on its side over the abscissa.
If you see the word kurtosis on your exam, it refers to the peakedness of a frequency distribution. A platykurtic distribution is flatter and more spread out than the normal curve.
If you find yourself sexually attracted to a client, This is known as?
A. countertransference
B. ambivalent transference
C. negative transference
D. positive transference
What is A. countertransference.
Countertransference is an indication of unresolved problems on the part of the helper.
A family member who is emotionally distant is?
A. disengaged
B. enmeshed
C. an example of equifinality
D. a placater
What is A. disengaged.
Disengagement is often defined as an isolated lack of connectedness between family members.
Francis Galton felt intelligence was:
A. a unitary faculty
B. best explained via a two factor theory
C. best explained via person's environment
D. fluid and crystallized in nature
What is A. a unitary faculty.
He believed that exceptional mental abilities were genetic and ran in families.
An excellent psychological or counseling test would have a reliability coefficient of?
A. 50
B. .90
C. 1.00
D. -.90
What is B. .90.
Ninety percent of the score is measured the attribute in question, while 10% of the score is indicative of error.
Standardized tests always have:
A. formal procedures for test administration and scoring, B. a mean of 100 and an SD of 15, C. a mean of 100 and a standard error of measurement of 3, D. a reliability coefficient of +.90 or above
What is A. formal procedures for test administration and scoring.
standardization implies that the testing format, the testing materials, and the scoring process are consistent.
A 16-year-old girl threatens to kill herself and you fail to inform her parents. Your behavior as a counselor is best described as?
A. an example of a dual relationship
B. an example of informed consent
C. an example of negligence, which is a failure to perform a duty, which in this instance is an obligation to protect the client
D. multiple submission
What is C. an example of negligence, which is a failure to perform a duty, which in this instance is an obligation to protect the client.
Another type of preexperimental design is the one-group only posttest design. This is best depicted by?
A. OXO
B. XO
C. OX
D. XX
What is B. XO.
The group only receives treatment (remember a capital X) and a score ( that would be O).
The newest career theory would be:
A. constructivist and cognitive approaches
B. the trait-and-factor approach
C. the developmental and psychoanalytic approaches
D. the transactional analysis approach
What is A. constructivist and cognitive approaches.
Career experts wonder if traditional theories are applicable now since the majority were based on research using white middle-class males, which hardly representative of the work market today.