Career
Theory
Appraisal
Research
Family
100
A 37-year-old Caucasian male states during a counseling session that he is working as a clerk at Main Street Plumbing. This verbalization depicts the client’s: a. Career b. Lifestyle c. Job or position d. Occupation
What is Job or position
100
Which theorists emphasizes freedom of choice and responsibility? a. B.F. Skinner b. William Glasser c. Carl Rogers d. Eric Berne
What is William Glasser
100
Appraisal can be defined as: a. The process of assessing or estimating attributes 
 b. Testing that is always performed in a group setting 
 c. Testing that is always performed on a single individual 
 d. Pencil and paper measurement of assessing attributes
What is The process of assessing or estimating attributes
100
A professor of counselor education hypothesized that biofeedback training could reduce anxiety and improve the average score on written board exams. If this professor decides to con- duct a formal experiment the IV will be the _______, and the DV will be the _______. a. Professor; anxiety level b. Anxiety level; board exam score
 c. Biofeedback; board exam score
 d. Board exam score; biofeedback
What is Biofeedback; board exam score
100
Family counselors generally believe in: a. Circular/reciprocal causality b. Linear causality 
 c. Random causality 
 d. Dream analysis
What is Circular/reciprocal causality
200
Career counseling based on Bandura’s social cognitive theory emphasizes all of these concepts except: a. Personal agency b. Positive uncertainty c. Self-efficacy d. Vicarious learning
What is Vicarious learning
200
Which of the following is not a curative factor of group participation identified by Yalom? a. group cohesiveness b. corrective recapitulation of the primary family experience c. confrontation d. interpersonal learning
What is confrontation
200
1. A counselor wants to make sure that the test she is using provides the same scores for people when they retake the test a month later. What should the counselor look for when reviewing the test manual? a. Alternate or parallel-forms reliability b. Split-half reliability c. Scorer reliability d. Test-retest reliability
What is Scorer reliability
200
Random assignment is the: a.selection of subjects into the sampling frame. b.selection of a subset of subjects using random numbers. c.allocation of subjects into a specific intervention group. d.allocation of subjects into the accessible group.
What is allocation of subjects into a specific intervention group
200
A behavioristic marriage and family therapist is counseling the entire family together. She turns to the 18-year-old son who is attending community college and says, “You must complete your sociology essay before you can use the family car and go out with your friends.” Which theorist is primarily guiding her intervention strategy? a. David Premack’s principle or law b. Ivan Pavlov and John B. Watson c. B. F. Skinner d. All of the above
What is David Premack’s principle or law
300
In Donald Super’s developmental approach to careers, which vocational developmental task did Super associate with the period of ages 18 to 21? a. Crystallization b. Specification c. Implementation d. Stabilization
What is Specification
300
____________ is to Social Learning Theory as ____________ is to Multimodal Therapy. a. Ellis; Bandura b. Bandura; Lazarus c. Skinner; Wolpe d. Wolpe; Beck
What is Bandura; Lazarus
300
A test format could be normative or ipsative. In the normative format: a. Each item depends in the item before it b. Each item depends on the item after it c. The client must possess an IQ within the normal range d. Each item is independent of all other items
What is Each item is independent of all other items
300
Qualitative research is said to be “context sensitive” based on the belief that human behavior is: a.“deviant” or abnormal only within certain contexts. b. not manifest in all settings or environments. c. often not what it appears to be to casual observers. d. influenced by the settings in which it occurs.
What is influenced by the settings in which it occurs.
300
The placater is a people pleaser under stress while the blamer: a. Will sacrifice others to feel good about himself b. Will often say, “if it weren’t for you....”
 c. Will point the finger at others to avoid dealing with his or her own issues d. All of the above are typical behaviors of the blamer
What is All of the above are typical behaviors of the blamer
400
Super’s exploration stage involves: a. entry level skill building and stabilization through work experience. b. implementing a vocational preference though role tryouts and exploration. c. developing a realistic self-concept. d. b and c
What is b and c
400
When a counselor reviews what has transpired in past counseling sessions he or she is using: a. Paraphrasing b. Reflection c. Summarization d. Confrontation

What is Summarization
400
2. If a measure correlates highly with other established measures of the same thing, it is said to have high: a. construct validity b. face validity. c. content validity. d. criterion validity.
What is construct validity
400
Behavior changing as a result of just being part of an experiment is to the _____________________ as believing that someone with an extensive vocabulary is better at communicating is to the ________________________. a. halo effect; Rosenthal effect b. Hawthorne effect; Rosenthal effect c. Hawthorne effect; halo effect d. placebo effect; Rosenthal effect
What is Hawthorne effect; halo effect
400
A structural family therapist might make the statement “family structure is only revealed when the family is in action,” which reflects the premise that in the structural approach to working with families, the focus is on _____, not _____. a. content; process b. process; content c. discussion; action d. action; discussion
What is process; content
500
10. The approach to career development that emphasizes genetic endowments, special abilities, environmental factors and influences, instrumental and associative learning experiences, and task-approach skills was developed by: a. Krumboltz b. Ginzberg c. Roe d. Super
What is Krumboltz
500
The relationship that the therapist has with the client in reality is: a. Detached but very empathic. 
 b. Like that of a warm caring mother. 
 c. Like that of a friend who asks what is wrong. 
 d. Friendly, nevertheless punishment is used when it is 
appropriate.
What is Like that of a friend who asks what is wrong. 

500
4. Convergent validation and discriminant validation occur within what type of validity? a. content validity b. predictive validity c. construct validity d. concurrent validity
What is construct validity
500
Experimenters should always abide by a code of ethics. The variable you do not manipulate/control in an experiment is the: a. DV b. Independent Variable c. The variable you will measure to determine the outcome d. IV
What is DV
500
Experiential family therapy is most closely related to which of the following counseling theories? a. psychodynamic b. behavioral c. humanistic-existential d. post-modern
What is humanistic-existential
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