🪩📓Encyclopedia of Counseling📓🪩
Which statement made by a group leader in a residential center for adolescents focuses on product rather than process?
"Ken has not stolen for a week and thus is eligible for supplementary tokens."
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?
"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."
Which statement made by a doctoral-level counselor is illustrate of a leader focused on process rather than product?
"You wince whenever Jane raises her voice"
Glasser's theory was popularized in educational circles after he wrote
'Schools without Failure'
The statement "bad behavior is punished, good behavior is not" is most closely associated with
Kohlberg's premoral stage at the preconventional level
Imprinting - rapid learning during a critical period of development - is an instinct in which a newborn will follow a moving object. The primary work in this area was done by
Konrad Lorenz
Which theorist would be most likely to say that aggression is an inborn tendency?
Konrad Lorenz
Common archetypes include
- persona - animus/anima - self - shadow
The Freudian developmental stage which "least" emphasizes sexuality is
Latency
_________ expanded on Piaget's conceptualization of moral development
Lawrence Kohlberg
A career counselor is using a test for job selection purposes. An acceptable reliability coefficient would be _______ or higher.
.80
An excellent psychological or counseling test would have a reliability coefficient of
.90 90% of the score measured the attribute in question, while 10% of the score is indicative of error.
In a lifetime the average person has
10-15 jobs
The mean on the Wechsler and the Stanford Binet Intelligence scales (SB5) is __________ and the standard deviation is ________.
100 ; 15 Wechsler, 16 Stanford Binet
The same test is given to the same group of people using the test-retest reliability method. The correlation between the first and second administration is .70. The true variance (the percentage of shared variance or the level of the same thing measured is both) is
49%
Most experts would agree that an effective adult counseling group has ______________ members
5 or 6 to 8
The Binet stressed age related tasks. Utilizing this method, a 9 year old task would be one which
50% of the 9 year olds could answer correctly
The client who would most likely engage in introspection would be a
52-year-old, single, African American male school administrator
Kohlberg lists _______ stages of moral development which fall into _______ levels.
6, 3
A researcher working with a personality test discovers that the test has a reliability coefficient of .70 which is somewhat typical. This indicates that
70% of the score is accurate while 30% is inaccurate
According to the Yale research by Daniel J. Levinson
80% of the men in the study experienced moderate to severe midlife crises and an "age 30 crisis" occurs in men when they feel it will soon be too late to make later changes.
We often refer to individuals as conformists. Which of these individuals would most likely conform to his peers?
A 13 year old male middle school student
Holland's artistic type seems to value feelings over pure intellect or cognitive ability. Which of the following clients would not be best described via the artistic typology?
A 33 year old female drill press operator
________________ is a biofeedback device
A bathroom scale
It's easiest to empathize with
A client who is similar to you
A classic experiment in social psychology was conducted by the social psychologist Muzafer Sherif et al at a boys' summer camp near Robber's Cave Oklahoma. The important finding of this study was
A cooperative, or so called superordinate, goal attained only by working in a joint manner, can bring two hostile groups together, thus reducing competition and enhancing cooperation
Sex-role stereotyping would imply that
A counselor would only consider traditional feminine careers for his female client and a male counselor would rate a female client's emotional status differently than he would a male client's
A counselor is screening clients for a new group at the college counseling center. Which client would most likely be the poorest choice for a group member?
A first-year student who is suicidal and sociopathic.
According to the Premack principle, an efficient reinforcer is what the client himself or herself likes to do. Thus, in this procedure
A lower probability behavior is reinforced by a higher probability behavior
The significance of the Little Albert experiment by John B. Watson and Rosalie Rainer was that
A phobia could be a learned behavior
The Heinz dilemma is to Kohlberg's theory as
A typing test is to the level of typing skills mastered
Which measure would yield the highest level of reliability?
A very accurate postage scale
A counselor who had an interest primarily in testing would most likely be a member of
AARC (Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling)
The national vocational guidance association was founded in 1913. It was fused with other organizations in 1952 to become the
APGA (American Personnel and Guidance Association)
A(n) _______________ client would most likely have the most difficulty with self-disclosure when speaking to a white counselor
African American male
In social psychology, the sleeper effect asserts that
After a period of time, one forgets the communicator but remembers the message.
John Krumboltz postulated a social learning approach to career choice. This model is based mainly on the work of
Albert Bandura
Self-efficacy theory is based on the work of
Albert Bandura
Lifestyle, birth order, and family constellation are emphasized by
Alfred Adler
_______________ emphasized the drive for superiority
Alfred Adler
Which theorists' work has been classified as a preface to the group movement?
Alfred Adler and Jesse B. Davis
Organ inferiority relates mainly to the work of
Alfred Adler's individual psychology.
The statement "sibling interaction may have more impact than parent-child interaction" describes
Alfred Adler's theory
Sigmund Freud is the father of psychoanalysis, which is both a form of treatment and a very comprehensive personality theory. According to Freud's theory, inborn drives (mainly sexual) help form the personality. ____________ and ___________, who originally worked with Freud, created individual psychology and analytic psychology, respectively.
Alfred Adler; Carl Jung
The first intelligence test was created by
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon
The word 'personalism' in the context of multicultural counseling means
All people must adjust to environmental and geological demands
A counselor is conducting a screening for clients who wish to participate in a counseling group which will meet Tuesday nights at his private practice office. Which client would most likely be the poorest choice for a group member?
An extremely hostile and belligerent construction worker
An association that naturally exists, such as an animal salivating (an unconditioned response) when food is presented, is called
An unconditioned stimulus
C. J. Jung felt that society caused men to deny their feminine side known as ________ and women to deny their masculine side known as ________.
Anima; animus
The Harlow experiments utilizing monkeys demonstrated that animals placed in isolation during the first few months of life
Appeared to be autistic
A male client tells his counselor that he is attracted to a "gorgeous woman who is violent and chemically dependent". This creates an
Approach - avoidance conflict
The Black versus White IQ controversy was sparked mainly by a 1969 article written by _______.
Arthur Jensen
An adapt group leader will
Attempt to safeguard clients against risks and work to reduce risks and dangers
The acronym NLP is an abbreviation of
Bandler and Grinder's neurolinguistic programming.
The term 'contextualism' implies that
Behavior must be assessed in the context of the culture in which behavior occurs
A counselor who utilizes the term instinctual technically means
Behavior that manifests itself in all normal members of a given species
In Freud's psychodynamic theory instincts are emphasized. Erik Erikson is an ego psychologist. Ego psychologists
Believe in man's powers of reasoning to control behavior
A counselor who fears the client has an organic, neurological, or motoric difficulty would most likely use the
Bender Gestalt II
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
Bordin
John B. Watson's name is associated with
Little Albert
Which case is not associated with the psychodynamic movement?
Little Albert
C. G. Jung, the founder of analytic psychology, said men operate on logic or the _______ principle, while women are intuitive, operating on the _______ principle.
Logos; Eros
In Pavlov's famous experiment using dogs, the bell was the __________ and the meat was the ___________.
CS;UCS
Empathy and counselor effectiveness scales reflect the work of
Carkhuff and Gazda
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator reflects the work of
Carl Jung
The personality types of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) are associated with the work of
Carl Jung
A client undergoing gestalt therapy who states "it's difficult to get a job in New York City" would be asked by the counselor to
Change the verbalization to an "I" statement
Cognitive dissonance research deals mainly with
Cognition and Attitude formation.
The system of interactive guidance and information (SIGI) and choices are
Computer Assisted Career Guidance Systems (CACG)
An African American client tells a white counselor that the dance she went to last night was "bad", though she literally means it was good. The counselor's misunderstanding could best be described as a
Connotative error
In Kohlberg's first or preconventional level, the individual's moral behavior is guided by
Consequences
A tall skinny pitcher of water is emptied into a small squatty pitcher. A child indicates that she feels the small pitcher has less water. The child has not yet mastered
Conservation (Piaget)
From a Freudian perspective, a client who has a problem with alcoholism and excessive smoking would be
Considered and oral character
America has been called the most diverse country on the face of our planet. Counseling a client from a different social and/or cultural background is known as
Cross-cultural counseling, multicultural counseling, and intercultural counseling.
A counselor can utilize psychological tests to help secure a _______ diagnosis if third party payments are necessary.
DSM or ICD
The decision making theory, which refers to periods of anticipation and implementation/adjustment, was proposed by
David Tiedeman and Robert O'Hara
A teenager who has had his heart set on winning a tennis match broke his arm in an auto accident. He sends in an entry form to play in the competition which begins just days after the accident. His behavior is influenced by
Denial
The cognitive therapist most closely associated with the concept of stress inoculation treatment is
Donald Meichenbaum
Some exams will split hairs and distinguish a dual-earner household from a dual-career household or family. All the statements below are false except:
Dual-career families earn more than dual-earner families
A dual-career family (or dual-work couple) is one in which both partners have jobs to which they are committed on a somewhat continuous basis. Which statement is true of dual-career families?
Dual-career families have higher incomes than the so-called traditional family in which only one partner is working
A counselor who wanted to teach a client to produce alpha waves for relaxation would utilize
EEG feedback
A counselor discovered that a client became nervous and often experienced panic attacks when she would tense her frontalis muscle over her eyes. The counselor wanted direct muscle feedback and thus would rely on
EMG feedback
The career anchor theory was espoused by
Edgar Schein
B. F. Skinner's reinforcement theory elaborated
Edward Thornedike's law of effect
A counselor is confronted with his or her first Native American client. Native Americans are descendants of the original inhabitants of North America. After the initial session, the counselor secures several books which delineate the cultural aspects of Native American life. She discovers that there are over 560 federally recognized tribes in the United States. The counselor most likely believes in the
Emic viewpoint
Theorists who believe that development merely consists of quantitative changes are referred to as
Empiricists
The philosopher most closely related to REBT would be
Epictetus
Which therapist was not instrumental in the early years of the social psychology movement?
Eric Berne, the father of transactional analysis
The term identity crisis comes from the work of
Erikson
The statement "All humans, from all cultures, all races, and all nations, are more alike than different" is based on the
Etic viewpoint
The department chair was further amused by the poodle's tendency to be able to discriminate on CS from another. He thus told the students to teach the dog to salivate only to the horn on his Ford but not one on a graduate student's Chevrolet truck. In reality, the horns on the two vehicles sounded nearly identical. The training was seemingly unsuccessful inasmuch as the dog merely took to very loud barking. In this case
Experimental neurosis set in
A popular cognitive consistency or balance theory in social psychology is _________ cognitive dissonance theory
Festinger's
Super's life-span theory emphasizes ________ life stages
Five
Roe's theory relies on Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs in the sense that in terms of career choice
Lower-order needs take precedence over higher-order needs
Irvin Yalom is a famous existentialist therapist and a pioneer in the group movement. He suggested these four group stages: orientation, conflict, cohesion, and termination. In 1977 Tuckman and Jensen reviewed 25 years of research and came up with five stages: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. Which stage in Tuckman and Jensen's paradigm is similar to Yalom's orientation stage?
Forming
___________ did research and concluded that intelligence was normally distributed like height or weight and that it was primarily genetic.
Francis Galton
____________ was the first pioneer to focus heavily on sociocultural issues
Frank Parsons, the father of guidance
The word 'eclectic' is most closely associated with
Frederick C. Thorne
A therapist who says to a patient "say whatever comes to mind" is practicing
Free association
A counselor who says he or she practices depth psychology technically bases his or her treatment on
Freud's topographic hypothesis.
________ and __________ would say that regardless of culture, humans have an instinct to fight
Freud; Lorenz
An aptitude test predicts future behavior while an achievement test measures what you have mastered or learned. In the case of a test like the _____ GRE the distinction is unclear.
GRE
_______ factors cause Down syndrome, the most common type known as trisomy 21
Genetic (conditions passed through genes)
Eric Berne created transactional analysis (TA). The model was popularized via his books Games People Play and What Do You Say After You Say Hello? TA therapists are most likely to incorporate _______ in the treatment process.
Gestalt therapy
Eric Berne is to TA as Fritz Perls is to
Gestalt therapy
Developmental career theorists view career choice as an ongoing or so called longitudinal process rather than a single decision made at one point in time. The pioneer theorists in this area - who were the first to forsake the matching models - were
Ginzberg, Ginsburg, Axelrad, and Herma
When comparing girls to boys, it could be noted that in general
Girls smile more, using more feeling words by age 2, and are better able to read people without verbal cues at any age
Which theorist was most concerned with material deprivation?
H. Harlow
The researcher who is well known for his work with maternal deprivation and isolation in rhesus monkeys is
Harry Harlow
Development is cephalocaudal, which means
Head to foot
Holland relied on a personality theory of career choice. Is also so side red a personality approach.
Henry Murray
Some behavioral scientists have been critical of Swiss child psychologist Jean Piaget's developmental research inasmuch as
His findings were often derived from observing his own children
When developmental theorists speak of nature or nurture they really mean
How much heredity or environment interact to influence development
IQ stands for intelligence quotient, which is expressed by
MA/CA x 100
A counselor decides to treat a client's phobia of flying utilizing Wolpe's technique of systematic desensitization. The first step in the anxiety hierarchy items would be
Imagining that she is calling the airlines for reservations
The purpose of interpretation in counseling is to
Make the clients aware of their unconscious processes
Prior to the 1960s most counseling took place
In a dyadic relationship
A game is composed of transactions which end in a bad feeling for at least one player. Games are said to prevent true intimacy. Which other statement is true of games?
In a first-degree game the harm is minimal, but the level of harm is quite serious in a third-degree game
A critical period
Makes imprinting possible and signifies a special time when behavior must be learned or the behavior won't be learned at all
In the United States, a frequent practice is to see a perfect stranger for therapy
In other cultures it would not be the norm to see a stranger and receive pay for providing help
Piaget's pre operational stage
Includes the acquisition of a symbolic schema
Skinner's operant conditioning is also referred to as
Instrumental learning
A person who has successfully mastered Erikson's first seven stages would be ready to enter Erikson's final stage
Integrity versus despair
A client who has incorporated his father's values into his thought patterns is a product of
Introjection
Multicultural counselors often adhere to the emic viewpoint. The word 'emic'
Is a "culture-specific" perspective, from the word phonemic meaning sounds in a particular language
The statement "Even though my car is old and it doesn't run well, it sure keeps my insurance payments low"
Is an attempt to reduce dissonance via consistent cognitions
In a culture-fair test
Items are known to the subject regardless of their culture
Classical conditioning relates to the work of
Ivan Pavlov
The term 'group therapy' was coined in 1931 by
Jacob Moreno, the father of psychodrama
Jung used drawings balanced around a center point to analyze himself, his clients, and dreams. He called them
Mandalas
A counselor is working with a family who just lost everything in a fire. The counselor will ideally focus on
Maslow's higher-order needs, such as physiological and safety needs
In 1908, books by ______________ helped to introduce social psychology in America
McDougall and Ross
Research into the phenomenon of career maturity reflects the work of
John Crites
The frustration-aggression theory is associated with
John Dollard and Neal Miller
As you walk into a professional seminar on career counseling you note that the instructor is drawing a hexagon on the blackboard. The instructor is most likely discussing
John Holland
Today, the most popular approach to career choice reflects the work of
John Holland
The term 'introversion' and 'extraversion' are associated with
Jung
The Kuder Career Planning System (KCPS) would be appropriate for
K-12, postsecondary, and even adults
Edmund Griffith Williamson's work (or the so-called Minnesota Viewpoint) purports to be scientific and didactic, utilizing test data from instruments such as the
Minnesota Occupational Rating Scales
The first studies, which demonstrated that animals could indeed be conditioned to control autonomic processes, were conducted by
Neal Miller
In the 'Dictionary of Occupational Titles' each job was given a ______________ digit code
Nine
An advertising agency secretly imbeds the word SEX into newspaper ads intended to advertise the center's chemical dependency program. This is the practice of
None of the above (sublimation, repression, and interjection)
The ___________________ are examples of aptitude tests.
O'NET Ability Profiler and the MCAT
A counselor who is interested in trends in the job market should consult the
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
When career counselors speak of the OOH they are referring to
Occupational Outlook Handbook
marital satisfaction
Often decreases with parenthood and often improves after a child leaves the home
Freud postulated psychosexual stages
Oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital
The correct order of the Freudian psychosexual or libidinal stage is
Oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital
What is not an example of Anne Roe's "levels"?
Outdoor
In transactional analysis (TA), the _________ is the conscience, or ego state concerned with moral behavior, while in Freudian theory it is the _________
Parent; superego
The trait-and-factor career counseling, actuarial, or matching approach (which matches clients with a job) is associated with
Parsons and Williamson
A preschool child's concept of causality is said to be animalistic. This means the child attributes human characteristics to inanimate objects. Thus, the child may fantasize that an automobile or a rock is talking to him. This concept is best related to
Piaget's pre operational period, ages 2-7 years
All of these philosophers are existentialists except
Plato and Epictetus
Rogers viewed man as
Positive when he develops in a warm, accepting, trusting environment
I'm a counseling session, a counselor asked a client to recall what transpired three months ago to trigger her depression. There was silence for about two and one-half minutes. The client then began to remember. This exchange most likely illustrates the function of the
Pre conscious mind
Kohlberg's three levels of morality are
Pre conventional, conventional, and post conventional
When a counselor tells a client that the Graduate Record Exam will predict her ability to handle graduate work, the counselor is referring to
Predictive validity
Freud's stages are psychosexual while Erik Erikson's stages are
Psychosocial
Albert Ellis is to REBT as Maxie C. Maultsby, Jr., is to
RBT (rational behavior therapy)
The statement "whites are better than African Americans" illustrates
Racism
In the famous experiment by Harry Harlow, frightened monkeys raised via cloth and wire mothers
Ran over and clung to the cloth and wire surrogate mothers
William Glass is to reality therapy as Albert Ellis is to
Rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT)
The 16 PF reflects the work of
Raymond B. Cattell
Which statement is true of the person-centered approach?
Reflection is used a lot yet the counselor rarely gives advice.
Most therapists agree that ego defense mechanisms are unconscious and deny or distort reality. Rationalization, compensation, repression, projection, reaction formation, identification, interjection, denial and displacement are ego defense mechanisms. According to Freudians, the most important defense mechanism is
Repression
The client's tendency to inhibit or fight against the therapeutic process is known as
Resistance
Which counselor would most likely say that we choose a job to meet our needs?
Robert Hoppock
Some support for Roe's theory comes from
Rorschach and TAT (thematic apperception test)
Today the Stanford-Binet is used from ages 2 to adulthood. The IQ formula has been replaced by the
SAS (standard age score)
In Piaget's developmental theory, reflexes play the greatest role in the
Sensorimotor stage
You are counseling a client from a different culture, she cannot move her right arm, but had been examined by some of the finest physicians and they cannot find any physical reason for her condition. The irony is that she is there to work on some personal issues but states forthrightly that the total lack of mobility in her arm does not bother her and that it has not been an issue to deal with in the counseling sessions. The most likely explanation would be
She has a conversion disorder with la belle indifference
According to the cognitive dissonance theory of Leon Festinger; a woman has an approach-approach conflict. She has her choice of a beautiful silver watch and an equally stunning gold watch. Both are different brands. She feels the silver model will be perfect for some of her jewelry and outfits while the gold is ideal for other jewelry and modes of dress. She chooses the silver watch.
She will read positive reviews on the silver watch — and possibly negative reviews about the gold model — after the purchase to justify her behavior and reduce post-decisional dissonance
The statement "the ego is dependent on the id" would most likely reflect the work of
Sigmund Freud, who created psychodynamic theory
____________ believe that aggression is learned. Thus, a child who witnesses behavior in adults may imitate the aggressive behavior
Social learning theorists
_________________ is associated with obedience and authority
Stanley Milgram, a noted psychologist
The department chairman found the poodle's response to his automobile horn humorous. He thus instructed the graduate students to train the dog to salivate only to his car horn and not the original toy bell. Indeed the graduate students were able to perform this task. The poodle was now demonstrating
Stimulus discrimination
Several graduate students in counseling trained a poodle to salivate to a child's toy horn using Pavlov's classical conditioning paradigm. One day the department chairman was driving across campus and honked his horn. Much to the chagrin of students, the poodle elicited a salvation response. What happened?
Stimulus generation or what Pavlov termed irradiation
A master's level counselor lands an entry-level counseling job in an agency in warm climate. Her office is not air conditioned, but the counselor insists she likes this because sweating really helps to keep her weight in check. This illuminates
Sweet lemon rationalization
Freud's theory speaks of Eros and Thanatos. A client who threatens a self-destructive act is being ruled primarily by
Thanatos
______________ was a prime factor in the history of multicultural counseling
The 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. the Board of Education, which outlawed public school segregation.
Notes psychotherapy author and scholar Raymond Corsini once referred to the early 1940s as the ''modern era" of group work. In the 1940s the two organizations for group therapy were created and group work became a legitimate specialty. The groups are
The American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP) spawned by the work of Jacob Moreno in 1942 and the American Group Psychotherapy Association which resulted from the effort of Samuel Richard Slavson in 1943
All of these statements are ethnocentric except
The Gross Domestic Product in the United States exceeds the figure in Mexico
The most controversial aspect of Freud's theory is
The Oedipus Complex
Erikson's middle age stage (35-60) is known as generativity versus stagnation. Generativity refers to
The ability to do creative work or raise a family, the opposite of stagnation, and the productive ability to create a career, family, and leisure time
Which statement is not true of the trait-and-factor approach to career counseling?
The approach is developmental and thus focuses on career maturity.
In Harry Harlow's experiments with baby monkeys
The baby monkey was more likely to cling to a terry-cloth surrogate mother than a wire surrogate mother
Equilibration is
The balance between what one takes in (assimilation) and that which is changed (accommodation)
__________ helped to popularize the multicultural counseling movement
The civil rights movement
A group participant wants to drop out of a group. Since the group is 'closed' most experts would agree that
The client is allowed to withdraw
According to Charles Osgood and Percy Tannenbaum's congruity theory, a client will accept suggestions more readily if
The client likes the counselor
In intercultural/multicultural counseling the term 'therapeutic surrender' means
The client psychologically surrenders himself or herself to a counselor from a different culture and becomes open with feelings and thoughts
In 1909, a landmark book entitled 'Choosing a Vocation' was released. The book was written by Frank Parsons. Parsons has been called
The father of vocational guidance
A group leader with more than one leader is said to utilize coleaders. Coleadership is desirable because
The group can go on even if one leader is absent, two leaders can focus on group dynamics better than one leader, and leaders can process their feelings between sessions
Which statement best depicts a major advantage of group work?
The group setting is somewhat analogous to the communication and interaction of everyday life.
Most experts would agree that peak period of competition between the various schools of counseling and therapy (gestalt, behavioristic, reality, etc) was during
The late 1960s
When a counselor speaks of a probable outcome in a case, he or she is technically referring to
The prognosis
In a counseling research study two groups of subjects took a test with the same name. However, when they talked with each other they discovered that the questions were different. The researcher assured both groups that they were given the same test. How is this possible?
The researcher gave parallel forms of the same test
A counseling test consists of 300 forced response items. The person taking the test can take as long as he or she wants to answer the questions.
This is most likely a power test
A new IQ test has a standard error of measurement (SEM) of 3. Tom scores 106 on the test. If he takes the test a lot, we can predict that about 68% of the time
Tom will score between 103 and 109
_______________ and ________________ created a program to help counselors learn accurate empathy
Truax; Carkhuff
The statement: "Males are better than females when performing mathematical calculations" is
True according to research by Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Positive transference is to love it affection, as negative transference is to hostility, and as ambivalent transference is to
Uncertainty
What is not an example of Anne Roe's "fields"?
Unskilled
Ethnocentrism
Uses one's own culture as a yardstick to measure all others
In Piagetian literature, conservation would most likely refer to
Volume or mass
The best IQ test for a 22 year old single male would be the
WAIS-III (the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale) is intended for ages 16 and beyond.
The best intelligence test for a sixth grade girl would be the
WISC-IV (the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) is appropriate for kids 6 to 16 years, 11 months.
The best intelligence test for a kindergartner would be the
WPPSI-III is designed for children between 3 and 7 years and 3 months and would be the only possible choice.
One of Adler's students, Rudolph Dreikurs,
Was the first to discuss the use of group therapy in private practice
An expert who had reviewed the literature on videos and violence would conclude that
Watching violence tends to make children more aggressive
All of these theorists could be associated with the analytic movement except
Wolpe
Daniel Levinson proposed a controversial stage-crisis view theory with several major life transitions. He
Wrote the 1978 classic Seasons of a Man's Life and the 1997 sequel Seasons of a Woman's Life and postulated a midlife crisis for men between the ages 40 and 45 and for women approximately five years earlier.
Frankl is an existentialist. So are
Yalom and May
The term 'reentry woman' would best describe
a 29 year old female who was babysitting in her home but is currently working at a fast food restaurant
A group setting has a flexible seating arrangement in which clients are free to sit wherever they wish. In this setting it is likely that
a Cuban male client in a designer suit and an Asian male client in another brand of designer suit will sit close together.
A teenager in a residential facility has earned enough tokens to buy his favorite brand of candy bar. The candy bar is
a back-up reinforcer
The model Krumboltz suggested is
a behavioristic model of career development
Person-centered counseling would prove least effective with
a client who is not very verbal
In terms of diagnosis,
a client's behavior could be sane and appropriate in one culture, yet disturbed and bizarre in another.
A group is classified as secondary. This implies that
a difficulty or disturbance is present
A client who is having panic attacks is told to practice relaxing his jaw muscle for three minutes per day. The counselor here is using
a directive
Gestalt means
a form, figure, or configuration unified as a whole
Holland believed that
a given occupation will tend to attract persons with similar personalities.
Some therapists object to the word 'unstructured' in group work
a group cannot not have structure
A major limitation related to group work is that
a group leader can lose control and members could experience emotional harm
A test battery is considered
a horizontal test
Experts firmly believe that a common weakness in many groups is ___________
a lack of goal setting
According to Eric Berne a life script is actually
a life drama or plot based on unconscious decisions made early in life
One distinct disadvantage of an open group is that
a member who begins after the first meeting has missed information or experiences
A group has
a membership which can be defined, some degree of unity and interaction & a shared purpose.
Balance theory postulates
a move from cognitive inconsistency to consistency & a tendency to achieve a balanced cognitive state.
A reliability coefficient of 1.00 indicates
a perfect score which has no error.
According to the OOH, the highest-paying profession would be
a psychiatrist
Social exchange theory postulates that
a relationship will endure if the rewards are greater than the costs
When a counselor reads the journals in this field, it becomes evident that
a researcher/practitioner split exists in group work
Ethnocentrism promotes
a sense of patriotism and national sovereignty and promotes stability and pride, yet danger in the nuclear age
In the United States, each socioeconomic group represents
a separate culture
Group therapy initially flourished in the United States due to
a shortage of individual therapists during World War II.
Group specialists define role conflict as
a situation in which there is a discrepancy between the way a member is expected to behave and the way he or she actually behaves
Tests are often classified as speed tests versus power tests. A timed typing test used to hire secretaries would be
a speed test
Today, the Stanford-Binet IQ test is
a standardized measure
The MMPI-2 is
a standardized personality test
Piaget is
a structuralist who believes stage changes are qualitative.
A counselor decides to use biofeedback training to help a client raise the temperature in his right hand to ward off migraines. He would utilize
a temperature trainer
Test bias primarily results from
a test being normed solely on White middle-class clients
Clients should know that
a test is merely a single source of data and not infallible.
When a counselor refers to a counseling paradigm, she really means
a treatment model
Francis Galton felt intelligence was
a unitary faculty
Most research in the area of career development and its relationship to students indicates that
a very high proportion 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
REBT suggests the ABC theory of personality in which A is the ____________, B is the _____________, and C is the ______________.
activating event; belief system; consequences
An Asian American counselor says to an African American client, "If you're unhappy with the system, get out there and rebel. You can change the system." This is the ___________ viewpoint for coping with the environment
alloplastic
There are behavioral, structural, and maturational theories of development. The maturational viewpoint utilizes the plant growth analogy, in which the mind is seen as being driven by instincts while the environment provides nourishment, thus placing limits on development. Counselors who are maturationists
allow clients to work through early conflicts
In Gelatt Model the predictive system deals with
alternatives and the probability of outcomes
According to researchers, groups are effective
although researchers cannot pinpoint precisely why this is true.
A valid test is _______ reliable.
always
The word dynamic means
always changing
A counselor who remarks that firstborn children are usually conservative but display leadership qualities is most likely
an Adlerian who believes behavior must be studied in a social context; never in isolation
A group setting has a flexible seating arrangement in which clients are free to sit wherever they wish. In this setting it is likely that
an Asian-American leader and an Asian-American client would sit close together.
The NCE is
an achievement test
Counselors who support John Holland's approach believe that
an appropriate job allows one to express his or her personality
Milgram discovered that normal people would administer seemingly fatal electric shocks to others when instructions to do so were given by a person perceived as
an authority figure
A young Latino male is the victim of discrimination. His counselor remarks, "I hear what you are saying and I will help you change your thinking so this will not have such a profound impact on you." In this case the counselor had suggested
an autoplastic method of coping
An interest inventory would be least valid when used with
an eighth-grade male with an IQ of 136
In terms of group risks
an ethical leader will discuss them during the initial session with a client.
Your client, who is in an outpatient hospital program, is keeping a journal of irrational thoughts. This would be
an informal assessment technique
A group member who insists on asking other members inappropriate questions is known as a Peeping Tom or
an interrogator
The DOT was first published by the U.S. Department of Labor in 1938. The first three digits in a DOT code referred to
an occupational group
The word 'psychometric' means
any form of mental testing
A client tells his counselor that he has a choice of entering one of two prestigious PhD counseling programs. Kurt Lewin would call this an
approach-approach conflict
The initial group stage has been called forming, orientation, or the pre affiliation stage. This stage is characterized by
approach-avoidance behavior
At its zenith the DOT listed
approximately 20,000 job titles
Jung spoke of a collective unconscious common to all men and women. The material that makes up the collective unconscious, which is passed from generation to generation, is known as
archetypes
In a healthy group, members
are flexible and can change roles
Edwin Bordin felt that difficulties related to job choice
are indicative of neurotic symptoms
A client says she has always stayed home and raised her children. Now the children are grown and she is seeking employment. She is best described
as a displaced homemaker
Carol Gilligan, although she was an assistant to Lawrence Kohlberg, was critical of his theory of moral development
as she felt it was more applicable to males than females
Existentialism is to logotherapy as ________ is to behaviorism.
associationism
Heredity is the transmission of traits from parents to their offspring and
assumes the normal person has 23 pairs of chromosomes, assumes that heredity characteristics are transmitted by chromosomes, and assumes that genes composed of DNA hold a genetic code
A client whose counselor pushes the alloplastic viewpoint may believe his counselor is simply
attacking the system
An eclectic counselor
attempts to choose the best theoretical approach based on the client's attributes, resources, and situation.
One major category of career theory is known as the trait-factor (also called the trait-and-factor) approach. It has also been dubbed the actuarial or matching approach. This approach
attempts to match the worker and the work environment (job factors). The approach thus makes the assumption that there is one best or single career for the person.
In the late 1930s researchers identified three basic leadership styles:
autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire
An alcoholic is given Antabuse, which is a drug that causes nausea when paired with alcohol. This technique is called
aversive conditioning
When an adolescent complains about his or her parents in the group it is best to
avoid taking sides but help him or her see the parents' point of view via a therapeutic technique such as role-playing
When a person has two negative alternatives, it is called an
avoidance-avoidance conflict
Gestalt therapy emphasizes
awareness in the here-and-now and dream work.
A client says, "I lost my job and it's the most terrible thing in the world." The client is engaging in
awfulizing and terriblizing, also known as catastrophizing
Anne Roe suggested a personality approach to career choice
based on the premise that a job satisfies an unconscious need
The self directed search is
based on the work of Holland and yields scores on his six types: self administered, self scored; and self interpreted
Allen E. Ivey has postulated three types of empathy
basic, subtractive, and additive
According to the risky shift phenomenon, a group decision will
be less conservative than the average group member's decision, prior to the group discussion
A counselor created an achievement test with a reliability coefficient of .82. The test is shortened since many clients felt it was too long. The counselor shortened the test but logically assumed that the reliability coefficient would now
be lower than .82
A displaced homemaker might have grown children or
be widowed and seeking employment or be divorced and seeking employment.
According to the Freudians, if a child is severely traumatized, he or she may _________ a given psychosexual stage
become fixated at
Group planning occurs
before the group begins and continues throughout the life of the group
A counselor utilizes role-playing combined with a hierarchy of situations in which the client is ordinarily nonassertive. Assertiveness trainers refer to this as
behavioral rehearsal
An empiricist view of development would be
behavioristic
A counselor suggests that her client join an assertiveness training group. Most assertiveness training groups are
behavioristic and highly structured
Although behavior therapy purports to be highly scientific, it has been criticized on the grounds that it is reductionistic, simplistic, and does not deal with underlying causes. Existential therapy, on the other hand, has been criticized for
being too vague regarding techniques and procedures
Our culture is more diverse than in the past. Multicultural counselors often work with persons who are culturally different. This means the client
belongs to a different culture from the helper
A counselor instructs her client to read A Guide to Rational Living by Albert Ellis and Robert Harper. This is an example of
bibliotherapy
TA life positions were made famous by Tom Harris's book, I'm OK—You're OK. The title of the book illuminates a healthy life position. The life position tells the counselor how a person goes about receiving strokes or recognition. A person categorized by the position "I'm OK—You're Not OK";
blames others for misery
A leader who wishes to stop inappropriate discussion should rely on
blocking
In terms of parenting young children
boys are punished more than girls.
The final stage (also called the termination stage) is geared toward
breaking away
A behavioristic counselor decides upon aversive conditioning as the treatment of choice for a gentleman who wishes to give up smoking. The counselor begins by taking a baseline. This is accomplished
by charting the occurrence of the behavior prior to any therapeutic intervention
A client who takes a normative test
can legitimately be compared to others who have taken the test.
Talking about difficulties in order to purge emotions and feelings is a curative process known as
catharsis and/or abreaction
A child who focuses exclusively on a clown's red nose but ignores his or her other features would be illustrating the Piagetian concept of
centration
A group therapist is constructing a diagram to better understand the dynamics between subgroups and members. This is called
charting a pictorial sociogram
Linda Gottfredson's developmental theory of career focuses on
circumscription and compromise theory
Counselors can more easily advise
clients from their own culture
Counselors often shy away from self-reports since
clients often give inaccurate answers.
In most instances, who would be the best qualified to give the Rorschach Inkblot Test?
clinical psychologist
The three factors which enhance interpersonal attraction are
close proximity, physical attraction, similar beliefs
Groups can be open or closed. The two differ in that
closed groups allow no new members after the group begins
Ted has always felt inferior intellectually. He currently works out at the gym at least four hours daily and is taking massive doses of dangerous steroids to build his muscles. The ego defense mechanism in action here is
compensation
Key areas that often cause problems for counselor self-image are
competence, power and intimacy
A child masters conservation in the Piagetian stage known as
concrete operations—ages 7 to 11.
John Bowlby has asserted that
conduct disorders and other forms of psychopathology can result from inadequate attachment and bonding in early childhood.
A client is demonstrating inconsistent behavior. She is smiling but says that she is very sad about what she did. When her counselor points this out to her, the counselor's verbal response is known as
confrontation
A reinforcement schedule gives the guidelines or rules for reinforcement. If a reinforcer is given every time a desired response occurs, it is known as
continuous reinforcement
A TA counselor and a strict behaviorist are both in the same case conference to staff a client. Which technique would the two most likely agree on when formulating a plan of action?
contracting
Reality therapy has incorporated
control theory, later referred to as choice theory.
Holland did indeed believe in career stereotypes. In other words the person psychologically defines himself or herself via a given job. Thus, a bookkeeper or a clerical worker would primarily fit into the _______ category.
conventional
Freud and Erikson
could be classified as maturationists
A counselor advises a female to steer clear of police work as he feels this is a male occupation. This suggests
counselor bias based on gender bias
A counselor who is obsessed with the fact that a client missed his or her session is the victim of
countertransference
A counselor has an obese client imagine that he is terribly sick after eating a high-caloric, high-fat meal. The client then imagines a pleasant scene in which his eating is desirable. This technique is called
covert sensitization
Culture is really a set of rules, procedures, ideas, and values shared by members of a society. Culture is said to be normative. This implies that
culture provides individuals with standards of conduct
John B. Watson is to cause as Mary Cover Jones is to
cure
Culture refers to
customs shared by a group which distinguish it from other groups; values shared by a group that are learned from others in the group; attitudes, beliefs, art, and language which characterize members of a group often passed from generation to generation
Punishment
decreases the probability that a behavior will occur
A statistical norm measures actual conduct, while a cultural norm
describes how people are supposed to act
Glasser's position on mental illness is that
diagnostic labels give clients permission to act sick of irresponsible
A true/false test has _____ recognition items.
dichotomous
Most experts would agree that the Wechsler IQ tests gained popularity, as the Binet
didn't seem to be the best test for adults
The ___________ index indicates the percentage of individuals who answered each item correctly
difficulty
Simon and Binet pioneered the first IQ test around 1905. The test was created to
discriminate children without an intellectual disability from children with an intellectual disability
A man receives a nickel an hour pay raise. He was expecting a one dollar per hour raise. He is furious but nonassertive. He thus smiles and thanks his boss. That night he yells at his wife for no apparent reason. This is an example of
displacement
The ABC theory of personality postulates that the intervention that occurs at D, _____________ leads to E, _____________.
disputing the irrational behavior at B; a new emotional consequence
A counselor who is genuine
does not role-play someone he or she is not, so as to be accepted by the client & does not change his or her true values from session to session.
In terms of leisure time and dual-career families/couples,
dual-career families/couples have less leisure time
Aaron T. Beck, an ex-psychoanalytic therapist who created the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), developed an approach known as cognitive therapy. Although cognitive therapy is similar to REBT, Beck insisted that
dysfunctional ideas are too absolute and broad though not necessarily irrational
A test format could be normative or ipsative. In the normative format
each item is independent of all other items
Multicultural counseling promotes
eclecticism
If you think of the mind as a seesaw, then the fulcrum or balancing apparatus would be the
ego
Unconscious processes, which serve to minimize anxiety and protect the self from severe id or superego demands, are called
ego defense mechanisms
Construct validity refers to the extent that a test measures an abstract trait or psychological notion. An example would be
ego strength
A person who can look back on his or her life with few regrets feels
ego-integrity in Erikson's integrity versus despair stage.
During a thunderstorm, a 6-year-old child in Piaget's stage of preoperational thought (stage 2) says, "The rain is following me." This is an example of
egocentrism
In the person-centered approach, an effective counselor must possess
empathy, congruence, genuineness, and demonstrate unconditional positive regard to create a desirable "I-Thou relationship"
The human relations core for effective counseling includes
empathy, positive regard (or respect), and genuineness
Holland's theory would predict that the vice president of the United States would be
enterprising
Piaget referred to the act of taking in new information as assimilation. This results in accommodation, which is a modification of the child's cognitive structures (schemas) to deal with the new information. In Piagetian nomenclature, the balance between assimilation and accommodation is called
equilibration
One method of testing reliability is to give the same population alternate forms of the identical test. Each form will have the same psychometric/statistical properties as the original instrument. This is known as
equivalent or alternate forms reliability
A practicum supervisor who says to his or her supervisee, "You can deal with your Asian-American clients the same as you deal with anybody else," is espousing the
etic viewpoint, derived from the term phonetic referring to sounds that remain the same in any language
According to assimilation-contrast theory, a client will perceive a counselor's statement that is somewhat like his or her own beliefs as even more similar (i.e., an assimilation error). He or she would perceive any dissimilar attitudes as
even more dissimilar (i.e., a contrast error).
Adler was one of the first therapists who relied on paradox. Using this strategy, a client (who was a student in a counselor preparation program) who was afraid to give a presentation in front of his counseling class for fear he might shake and embarrass himself would be instructed to
exaggerate the behavior and really do a thorough job shaking in front of the class
Rogers' approach is characterized as a(n) ______________ approach.
existential or humanistic
The counselor's social power is related to
expertise, attractiveness, and trustworthiness
Rogers emphasized congruence in the counselor. Congruence occurs when
external behavior matches an internal response or state.
During a family counseling session, a 6 year old girl repeatedly sticks her tongue out at the counselor, who is obviously ignoring the behavior. The counselor is practicing
extinction
In one experiment, a dog was conditioned to salivate to a bell paired with a fast food cheeseburger. The researcher then kept ringing the bell without giving the dog the cheeseburger. This is known as
extinction, and the salivation will disappear
Counselors who have good listening skills
facilitate therapeutic surrender.
Initially, Ginzberg and his associates viewed career choice as irreversible and the result of compromises between wishes and realistic possibilities. This theory identified three stages of career development
fantasy (birth to age 11), tentative (ages 11 to 17), and realistic (age 17 to early 20s).
Roe was the first career specialist to utilize a two-dimensional system of occupational classification utilizing
fields and levels
Perls suggested ______________ which must be peeled away to reach emotional stability.
five layers of neurosis
Ritualistic behaviors, which are common to all members of a species, are known as
fixed-action patterns elicited by sign stimuli
Good multicultural counselors are
flexible
The ACA and the ASGW division recommend screening for potential group members
for all groups
The NCE and the CPCE would be examples of a(n) ____________ test
forced choice
Group cohesiveness refers to
forces which tend to bind group members together
A short answer test is a(n) _______ test.
free choice
Existential counselors emphasize the client's
free choice, decision, and will
A female group member is obviously not participating. A group member playing the _______ is most likely to mention this and urge her to participate.
gatekeeper
The _________________ may secretly wish that he or she was running the group
gatekeeper
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
gender bias
Counselors who work as consultants
generally do not adhere to one single theory.
In which Eriksonian stage does the midlife crisis occur?
generativity versus stagnation
In terms of genetics, Roe's theory would assert that
genetics help to determine intelligence and education, and hence this influences one's career choice
A new IQ test which yielded results nearly identical to other standardized measures would be said to have
good concurrent validity
Group norms
govern acceptable behavior and group rules
The study of group operations is often called
group dynamics
Experts predict that in the future
group leaders will be more like life-skills trainers
Group IQ tests like the Otis Lennon, the Lorge-Thorndike, and the California Test of Mental Abilities are popular in school settings. The advantage is that
group tests are quicker to administer
Some theorists feel that group therapy differs from group counseling (which is also called an interpersonal problem-solving group) in that
group therapy, also dubbed as a personality reconstruction group, would be of longer duration
In some literature, group cohesiveness, or "we-ness," is known as
group unity
The autocratic or authoritarian leader may give orders to the group, while the laissez faire leader
has a hands-off policy and participates very little, with the group basically taking responsibility for itself
Overall, Rogerian person-centered counseling
has been used more than other models to help promote understanding between cultures and races.
Regardless of culture, the popular individual
has good social skills
A person who lives by his or her individual conscience and universal ethical principles
has, according to Kohlberg, reached the highest stage of moral development and is in the postconventional level of self-accepted moral principles
A group leader who wishes to assess the impact of the group ideally would
have an outside "observer" sit in during group sessions and consequently rate the level of behavioral change
A job test which predicted future performance on a job very well would
have high criterion/predictive validity
Most research would suggest that a woman who has the same intelligence, skills, and potential as a man will often
have lower career aspirations than a man.
Most individuals believe that people whom they perceive as attractive
have other positive traits
In the case of an individual who purchased a $50,000 watch, cognitive dissonance theory postulates that
he or she might ignore positive information regarding other models and secure a lot of information regarding the $50,000 platinum model and he or she might focus heavily on negative information regarding rival models
Six persons attend a counseling group. After the group, five members praise the merits of a group activity assigned by the group leader. The sixth person, who has heard the opinion of the other five people, felt the activity was useless and boring. According to studies on social behavior, about one third of the time the sixth individual would most likely tell the other five that
he too felt the group activity was very helpful
Viktor Frankl is the Father of logotherapy, which is based on existentialism. Logotherapy means
healing through meaning
In a group, task roles
help solve problems, aid in terms of goal setting and keep the group focused & are seen as positive.
Maintenance roles, like task roles are positive since such roles
help to maintain the group
Coleadership is
helpful when one leader is experiencing countertransference
In the United States, middle- and upper- class citizens seem to want a counselor who
helps them work it out on their own
A colleague of yours invents a new projective test. Seventeen counselors rated the same client using the measure and came up with nearly identical assessments. This would indicate
high reliability
After a dog is conditioned using the well-known experiment of Pavlov's, a light is paired with the bell (the CS). In a short period of time the light alone would elicit the salivation. This is called
higher-order conditioning
Bibliotherapy is a form of
homework
Strategies that approach the group as a whole are known as
horizontal interventions
The standard error of measurement tells you
how accurate or inaccurate a test score is
In the early 1920s, Emory Bogardus developed a social distance scale, which evaluated
how an individual felt toward other ethnic groups
Eric Berne's transnational analysis (TA) posits three ego states: the child, the adult, and the parent. These roughly correspond to Freud's structural theory that includes
id, ego and superego
Jane feels very inferior. She is now president of the board at a shelter for the homeless. She seems to be obsessed with her work for the agency and spends every spare minute trying to help the cause. When asked to introduce herself in virtually any social situation, Jane invariably responds with, "I'm the president of the board for the homeless shelter." Jane is engaging in
identification
Freud felt that successful resolution of the Oedipus complex led to the development of the superego. This is accomplished by
identification with the aggressor, the parent of the same sex
Although task roles and maintenance roles are indeed positive, the group can suffer if the group is not flexible and remains in one or the other too long since
if a group gets stuck in task roles, interaction suffers & if a group gets stuck in maintenance roles, little work (or tasks) will be accomplished
One major disadvantage of a closed group versus an open group is that
if everyone quits, you will be left with no group members
One distinction between flooding (also known as "deliberate exposure with response prevention" in recent literature) and implosive therapy is that
implosive therapy is always conducted in the imagination
A counselor who is seeing a 15-year-old boy who is not doing well in public speaking class would need to keep in mind that
in general, girls possess better verbal skills than boys & in general, boys have better visual-perceptual skills and are more active and aggressive than girls.
A wealth of research demonstrates that
in most instances, clients prefer a counselor of the same race and a similar cultural background.
A screening for group members can be done in a group or privately. Although private screening interviews are not as cost effective or as time efficient as group screening, many group leaders feel that private screening sessions are superior
in terms of counselor-client interaction
The trait-and-factor approach fails to take _____________ into account
individual change throughout the life span
One advantage of group work is that a counselor can see more clients in a given period of time. One disadvantage is that a counselor can be too focused on group processes and
individual issues are not properly examined
When a client becomes aware of a factor in his or her life that was heretofore unknown, counselors refer to it as
insight
In general, behavior modification strategies are based heavily on ____________________, while behavior therapy emphasizes ___________________.
instrumental conditioning; classical conditioning Skinnerian principles; Pavlovian principles
IQ means
intelligence quotient
Which method of reliability testing would be useful with an essay test but not with a test of algebra problems?
inter-rater/inter-observer
To research dilemma of self actualization, Maslow
interviewed the best people he could find who escaped "the psychology of the average"
The Eriksonian stage that focuses heavily on sharing your life with another person is
intimacy vs isolation - ages 23-34 years
Holland's psychological needs career personality theory would say that a research chemist is primarily the __________ type.
investigative
A group leader who is counseling children under 10 years of age could best enhance the treatment process by
involving parents and asking them for input
Ellis feels that __________________ is at the core of emotional disturbance.
irrational thinking at point B
The most effective time interval (temporal relation) between the CS and the US
is .5 or half a second
Whereas a culture is defined primarily via norms and values, a society differs from a culture in that a society
is a self-perpetuating independent group which occupies a definitive territory.
A counselor reading this book says, "I couldn't care less about passing my comprehensive exam." This
is an attempt to reduce dissonance by denial, thus minimizing tension
The fear of death
is greatest during middle age.
The tendency to affiliate with others
is highest in firstborns and only children
A counselor Perseus a testing catalog in search of a test which will repeatedly give consistent results. The counselor
is interested in reliability
When counseling a client from a different culture, a common error is made when negative transference
is interpreted as therapeutic resistance
During a professional staff meeting, a counselor says he is worried that if techniques are implemented to stop a 6-year-old boy from sucking his thumb, then he will begin biting his nails or stuttering. The counselor
is most likely an analytically trained counselor concerned with symptom substitution
Early vocalization in infants
is nearly identical in all cultures around the globe
Midlife career change
is not that unusual
Negative reinforcement requires the withdrawal of an aversive (negative) stimulus to increase the likelihood that a behavior will occur. Negative reinforcement is not used as often as positive reinforcement and
is not the same thing as punishment
According to Lawrence Kohlberg, level 3, which is postconventional or self-accepted moral principles
is the highest level of morality. However, some people never reach this level.
In the dual career family, partners seem to be more self sufficient than in the traditional family. In a dual career household, the woman
is typically secure in her career before she has children
The concept of job clubs as promoted by Azrin et al.
is very behavioristic
Cohesiveness, or group unity, is desirable. It promotes bonding and a sense of "we-ness" between group members. When cohesiveness is strong, nevertheless, it also can be negative as
it can stunt creativity & it can boost conformity
In terms of trust and therapeutic surrender,
it is easier to trust people from one's own culture, lower-class people often don't trust others from a higher social class and lower-class clients may feel that they will end up as losers dealing with a counselor from a higher social class.
One major advantage of a closed group versus an open group is
it promotes cohesiveness
In a spiral test
items get progressively more difficult
A 37-year-old white male states during a counseling session that he is working as a clerk at Main Street Plumbing. This verbalization depicts the client's
job or position
According to Glasser, a positive addiction might be
jogging
Gender issues impact career counseling such as career segregation. Men are overrepresented in _____ positions while women often have _______
labor and executive positions; pink-collar jobs
Coleadership, also referred to as cofacilitation, can be a disadvantage when
leaders are working against each other; this can fragment the group leaders are intimate with each other leaders question each other's competence
A counselor who is seeing a client from a different culture would most likely expect ___________ social conformity than he or she would from a client from his or her own culture
less
Most experts would agree that an effective counseling group for children has
less members than an adult group
Parents who do not tolerate or use aggression when raising children produce
less-aggressive children
The relationship that the therapist has with the client in reality therapy is
like that of a friend who asks what is wrong
When a leader attempts to relate one person's predicament to another person's predicament, it is known as
linking
Face validity refers to the extent that a test
looks or appears to measure the intended attribute
Maslow, a humanistic psychologist, is famous for his "hierarchy of needs," which postulates
lower-order physiological and safety needs and higher-order needs, such as self-actualization
Doing cross-cultural counseling
makes counselors increasingly aware of cultural differences
Most scholars would assert that Freud's 1900 work entitled 'The Interpretation of Dreams' was his most influential work. Dreams have
manifest and patent content
Which of these factors is not delineated by Irvin Yalom as a curative factor?
manifest dream content and insight into the unconscious mind
Freud has been called the most significant theorist in the entire history of psychology. His greatest contribution was his conceptualization of the unconscious mind. Critics, however, contend that
many aspects of his theory are difficult to test from a scientific standpoint
A major advantage of group work versus individual work is that
members learn to give help in addition to receiving it and group sessions generally cost less (i.e., they are more economical) than individual counseling sessions
In terms of research related to affiliation
misery loves company, firstborns are more likely to affiliate than other children born later and people affiliate in an attempt to lower fear
A group therapist must make
more decisions than an individual therapist
The number of people in an open group is generally
more stable than in a closed group
The notion of the hidden job market would suggest that
most jobs are not advertised
In regard to an individual's behavioral style or so called modal orientation, Holland believed that
most people are not pure personality types and thus can best be described by a distribution of types such as Realistic, Social, Investigative (RSI)
According to the concept of occupational sex segregation
most women hold low paying jobs with low status
Most experts would agree that a multicultural counselor's diagnosis
must be done within a cultural context
Shoulds and oughts are _______ according to Ellis.
musturbations
Most countries have an official language, a stated viewpoint, and a central government. This is reflected mainly by
national culture
A counselor who is part of a research study will be counseling clients in the Polar Regions and then at a point near the equator. Her primary concern will be
national culture and ecological culture
In a projective test the client is shown
neutral stimuli
Many researchers have tried putting the UCS (the meat) before the CS (the bell). This usually results in
no conditioning
The school of counseling created by Carl R. Rogers has undergone three name changes. Initially it was called ___________, then ________________, and in 1974 it changed to ______________.
non-directive; client-centered; person-centered
The following goes along with whatever the rest of the group thinks. From a personality standpoint the follower is
nonassertive
A Japanese client who was reluctant to look you in the eye during her counseling session would most likely be displaying
normal behavior within the context of her culture
A reliable test is _______ valid.
not always
Berne suggested three ego states: the Parent, the Adult, and the Child (P-A-C). The Parent ego state is composed of values internalized from significant others in childhood. TA therapists speak of two functions in the Parent ego state, the _______.
nurturing parent & critical parent
A mother hides a toy behind her back and a young child does not believe the toy exists anymore. The child has not mastered
object permanence and representational thought
The National Counselor Exam is a(n) ___________ test because the scoring procedure is specific.
objective
TA is a cognitive model of therapy which asserts that healthy communication transactions
occur where vectors of communication run parallel
A counselor doing multicultural career counseling should be aware
of his or her own ethnocentric biases
Critics assert that gestalt therapy is an affective treatment that
often fails to emphasize cognitive concerns
Statistics reveal that
on average, a worker with a bachelor's degree earns over $10,000 a year more than a worker with a high school diploma.
According to Jean Piaget, a child masters the concept of reversibility in the third stage, known as the concrete operations or concrete operational thought. This notion suggests
one can undo an action, hence an object (say a glass of water) can return to its initial shape
Ellis most likely would not be impressed with a behaviorist's new animal study related to the psychotherapeutic process since
only humans think in declarations (internal sentences that can cause or ward off emotional discord)
Gestalt therapists sometimes utilize the exaggeration experiment which most closely resembles
paradox as practiced by Frankl, Haley, or Erickson
A counselor who repeats what a client has stated in the counselor's own words is using
paraphrasing
A neophyte counselor is afraid he will say the wrong thing. He thus keeps repeating the client's statements verbatim when he responds. This is known as
parroting and is not recommended
Gerald Corey, who has written extensively on group therapy, believes _______ is necessary for an effective group leader.
participation in a therapeutic group and participation in a leader's group (even if the individual is well-educated and is licensed and certified)
In a traditional culture which places a high premium on authority figures,
passivity on the part of the counselor would be viewed in a negative manner, a client would be disappointed if he or she did not receive advice, assigning homework and teaching on the part of the counselor would be appropriate
The 1971 famous Stanford Prison experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo demonstrated that
people conform to social roles
The superego contains the ego ideal. The superego strives for ____________, rather than _________ like the id
perfection; pleasure
Floyd Henry Allport created the concept of social facilitation. According to this theory, an individual who is given the task of memorizing a list of numbers will
perform better if he or she is part of a group
Most experts in the field of career counseling would classify Roe, Brill, and Holland as _______ theorists.
personality
Existentialists speak of three worlds, the 'Umwelt' or the _________ world, the 'Mitwelt' or the __________ world, and the 'Eigenwelt' or the ___________ world.
physical; relationship; identity
Internal verbalizations are to REBT as _______________ are to Glasser's choice theory
picture in your mind
Both the Rorschach and the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) are projective tests. The Rorschach uses 10 inkblot cards while the TAT uses
pictures
A gestalt therapist is most likely going to deal with a client's projection via
playing the projection technique
The id is present at birth and never matures. It operates mainly out of awareness to satisfy instinctual needs according to the
pleasure principle, suggesting humans desire instinct gratification such for libido, sex, or the elimination of hunger or thirst
Johnny just loves M&Ms but doesn't do his homework. The school counselor thus instructs Johnny's mom to give the child a bag of M&Ms every night after he finishes his homework. This is an example of
positive reinforcement
When something is added following an operant, it is known as _________________, when something is taken away it is called a _______________.
positive reinforcer; negative reinforcer
An aptitude test is to ________________ as an achievement test is to ______________.
potential; what has been learned
A fairly recent model to explain career development is the decision approach. The Gelatt Decision Model created by Harry B. Gelatt refers to information as "the fuel of the decision." The Gelatt Model asserts that information can be organized into three systems
predictive, value, and decision
R. K. Conyne suggested that group intervention is intended to
prevent, correct, or enhance behavior
Primary groups are
preventive and attempt to ward off problems.
The adult ego state
processes facts and does not focus on feelings.
Your supervisor wants you to find a new personality test for your counseling agency. You should read
professional journals, the Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook, classic textbooks in the field, as well as test materials produced by the testing company.
_______________ is like looking in a mirror but thinking you are looking out a window
projection
Gestalt therapy, a paradigm that focuses on awareness in the here and now incorporates
psychodrama
The counselor who favors projective measures would most likely be a
psychodynamic clinician
Stage theorists assume
qualitative changes between stages occur.
In terms of research and the group leader's personality,
qualities such as flexibility, enthusiasm, and common sense may be helpful to a very small degree
A client remarks, "Hey, I'm African American and it's nearly impossible to hide it." This is illustrative of the fact that
race is not the same as ethnicity
Unpleasant feelings after a person creates a game are called
rackets
The literature suggests these factors as helpful in promoting therapeutic surrender:
rapport, trust, listening, conquering client resistance, and self-disclosure
The two basic classes of intermittent reinforcement schedules are the _____________, based on the number of responses and the ______________, based on the time elapsed.
ratio; interval
Mark is obsessed with stamping out pornography. He is unconsciously involved in this cause so that he can view the material. This is
reaction formation (the person acts the opposite of the way they actually feel.)
Group members assume roles within a group. Which of the following is not a group role?
reactive schizophrenia
You are uncertain whether a test is intended for the population served by your not-for-profit agency. The best method of researching this dilemma would be to
read the test manual included with the test
A client who wishes to work on an assembly line would fit into Holland's _____ typology
realistic
Viktor Frankl is to logotherapy as William Glasser is to
reality therapy
Short answer tests and projective measures utilize free response items. The NCE and the CPCE uses forced choice or so called ____________ items.
recognition
When a counselor speaks of what he or she believes must transpire from a psychotherapeutic standpoint, he or she technically is referring to
recommendations
Coleadership
reduces burnout and helps ensure safety.
Respondent behavior refers to
reflexes
Therapeutic cognitive restructuring really refers to
refuting irrational ideas and replacing them with rational ones
Mores are beliefs and social customs
regarding the rightness or wrongness of behavior
Systematic desensitization consists of these orderly steps:
relaxation training, construction of anxiety hierarchy, desensitization in imagination, and in vivo desensitization.
Suppression differs from repression in that
repression is automatic and involuntary.
According to gestalt therapists, a client who is angry at his wife for leaving him, and who makes a suicide attempt, would be engaging in
retroflection
A group leader who utilizes an abundance of group exercises is
running a structured group
The strong interest inventory is based on John Holland's theory. The test assumes that a person who is interested in a given subject will experience
satisfaction in a job with workers who have similar interests
A stimulus which accompanies a primary reinforcer takes on reinforcement properties of its own. This is known as
secondary reinforcement
The most effective method adults use to find jobs in the United States is
securing information via ads in the newspaper
In Albert Ellis' rational-emotive behavior therapy, the client is taught to change cognitions, also known as
self talk and internal verbalizations
Weight Watchers is a
self-help or support group as is AA.
_____________ is behavioral sex therapy.
sensate focus
The final stage suggested by theories of group stages generally deals with issues of
separation and termination
During the initial session of a group the leader explains that no smoking and no cursing were permitted. This is known as
setting ground rules
According to the foot-in-the-door compliance technique, which has two distinct steps, a counselor who needs to make a home visit to a resistant client's home
should ask to come in the home
Experts in the field of multicultural counseling feel that the counselor's training
should be broad and interdisciplinary
A career counselor who is helping a client design a resume
should emphasize the importance of a cover letter
Two brothers begin screaming at each other during a family counseling session. The term that best describes the phenomenon is
sibling rivalry
Most experts would agree that _____________ is the most threatening for clients as well as counselors
silence
Lifestyle and career development have been emphasized
since the beginning of the counseling and guidance movement and are still major areas of concern
Holland categorized _______ personality orientations which correspond to analogous work environments.
six
The relationship a client has with a gestalt therapist would most likely progress _____________ than the relationship a client would have with a Rogerian counselor.
slower
Holland mentioned six modal orientations: artistic, conventional, enterprising, investigative, realistic, and social. A middle school counselor is most likely
social
Adler emphasized that people wish to belong. This is known as
social connectedness
One problem with interest inventories is that the person often tries to answer the questions in a socially acceptable manner. Psychometricians call this response style phenomenon
social desirability (the right way to feel in society)
In contrast with Freud, the neo-Freudians emphasized
social factors
Critics of the Rogerian approach feel that
some degree of directives is needed after the initial phase of counseling and more confrontation is necessary, though Rogers did encourage caring confrontations
A student tells a college counselor that he is not upset by a grade of "F" in physical education that marred his fourth year perfect 4.0 average, inasmuch as "straight A students are eggheads." This demonstrates
sour grapes rationalization
A client from another culture will
speak to the counselor differently from the way he or she would when speaking to someone of his or her own background.
A monolingual U.S. counselor
speaks only English
A client who likes her flower arranging job begins doing flower arranging in her spare time on weekends and after work. This phenomenon is best described as
spillover
In the famous Little Albert experiment, a child was conditioned to fear a harmless white furry animal. Historical accounts indicate that the child also began to fear a Santa Claus mask. This would demonstrate
stimulus generalization
The anal retentive personality is
stingy
Most experts would agree that overall
structured exercises are less effective than unstructured techniques.
Some research demonstrates that
structured exercises with feedback early in the group served to improve communication between group members.
Studies indicate that
students want more vocational guidance than they receive.
A test can be defined as a systematic method of measuring a sample of behavior. Test format refers to the manner in which test items are presented. The format of an essay test is considered a(n) _______ format.
subjective
Evidence for the unconscious mind comes from all of these except:
subjective units of distress scale
Joseph Wolpe created systematic desensitization, a form of reciprocal inhibition based on counterconditioning. His strategy has been used in individual and group settings. When using his technique, the acronym SUDS stands for
subjective units of disturbance scale
A client who becomes a professional football player because he unconsciously likes to hurt people would be utilizing _______ according to Brill's theory of career choice.
sublimation
An aggressive person who becomes a professional boxer because he or she is sadistic is displaying
sublimation
Another career theorist who drew upon psychoanalytic doctrines was A. A. Brill. Brill emphasized _______ as an ego-defense mechanism.
sublimation
Glasser felt the responsible person will have a _______ identity.
success
When the past is discussed in reality therapy, the focus is on
successful behaviors.
When development comes to a halt, counselors say that the client
suffers from fixation
A counselor who favors a behavioristic mode of career counseling would most likely
suggest a site visit to a work setting
In the general U.S. population
suicide rates tend to increase with age.
When a counselor reviews what has transpired in past counselors sessions he or she is using
summarization
A group leader who asks each group member to recapitulate what he or she has learned during a given session is promoting
summarization, the act of briefly stating what has transpired or discussed
Kohlberg proposed three levels of morality. Freud, on the other hand, felt morality developed from the
superego
A counselor who works primarily with older adults needs to be aware that
surprisingly, financial security and health are the best predictors of retirement adjustment
A client remarks that he was just dumped by his girlfriend. The counselor responds, "Oh, you poor dear. It must be terrible! How can you go on living?" This is an example of
sympathy
All reinforcers
tend to increase the probability that a behavior will occur
One method of testing reliability is to give the same test to the same group of people two times and then correlate the scores. This is called
test-retest reliability
The trait-and-factor or actuarial approach asserts that
testing is an important part of the counseling process and that a counselor can match the correct person with the appropriate job
Piaget felt
that teachers should lecture less, as children in concrete operations learn best via their own actions and experimentation
Glasser suggested eight steps in the reality therapy process. The final step asserts
that the client and counselor be persistent and never give up
Frankl's experience in Nazi concentration camps taught him
that you can't control the environment, but you can control your response.
The APGA, which became the AACD until 1992 and is now the ACA, contributed to the growth of cross-cultural counseling by
the 1972 formation of the Association for Non-White Concerns in Personnel and Guidance, later known as the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development
You are working as a counselor for a major university. A student wants detailed statistics about the average wages in her state. The best resource would be
the Bureau of Labor Statistics website
A counselor is told by his supervisor to measure the internal consistency reliability (i.e., homogeneity) of a test but not to divide the test in halves. The counselor would need to utilize
the Kuder-Richardson coefficients of equivalence
Empathy is
the ability to understand the client's world and to communicate this to the client
According to Anne Roe, who categorized occupations by fields and levels,
the choice of a career helps to satisfy an individual's needs.
Robert Kegan speaks of a "holding environment" in counseling in which
the client can make meaning in the face of a crisis and can find new direction
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
the client will not need to lift over 10 pounds
All of these statements regarding reality therapy are true except
the client's childhood is explored.
Existentialists focus primarily on
the client's perception in the here and now
A male client who hates his job is trying desperately to be the perfect father, husband, and family man. This phenomenon is best described as
the compensatory effect
In order to diagnose clients from a different culture
the counselor ideally will need some information regarding the specifics of the culture
A neophyte counselor discovers that her clients invariably give yes and no answers to her questions. The problem is most likely that
the counselor is utilizing too many closed-ended questions
Genuineness, or congruence, is really
the counselor's ability to be himself or herself.
When comparing the autocratic, democratic, and laissez faire styles,
the democratic, or what Sam Gladding called a facilitator, is the most desirable
Behavior therapists often shy away from punishment because
the effects of punishment are usually temporary and it teaches aggression
Freudians refer to the ego as
the executive administrator of the personality and the reality principle
A client would generally feel the most suspicious of the others in group in the __________________
the group formation/exploratory stage.
The SDS score will reveal
the individual's three highest scores based on Holland's personality types.
Super's life-span theory includes
the life-career rainbow
A man yells at his wife and then slaps her, stating that she does nothing around the house. The woman begins crying and he puts his arm around her to comfort her. He then begins crying and says that he doesn't know how he can continue doing all the housework because it is too difficult. A TA therapist who analyzes the situation using Stephen Karpman's drama triangle would say
the man has moved from the persecutor, to the rescuer, to the victim role
Group content refers to material discussed in a group setting. Group process refers to
the manner in which discussions and transactions occur
The Child ego state is like the little kid within. The child may manifest itself as
the natural child, the adapted child, or the little professor
In terms of the labor market
the number of employees that employers want to hire goes down as salary goes up and the number of employees willing to work for an employer goes up as the salary increases
Existential theorists speak of phenomenology, which refers to the client's internal personal experience of events, and ontology, which is
the philosophy of being and existing
Appraisal can be defined as
the process of assessing or estimating attributes
Ginsberg and his colleagues now believe in a development model of career choice which asserts that
the process of choosing a career does not end at age 20 or adulthood career choice decisions are really made throughout the life span career choice is reversible
Group norms refer to
the range of acceptable behavior within the group.
Existential counselors as well as Rogerian person-centered counselors adhere to what Martin Buber called the I-Thou relationship, which asserts that
the relationship is horizontal
Everybody picks on
the scapegoat
Fights between subgroups and members showing rebellion against the leader generally occur in
the second stage known as the control stage or the transition stage
The most popular developmental career theorist is Donald Super. Super emphasizes
the self-concept
A hierarchy, or pecking order, among members occurs in
the stage of storming, also known as the power-control stage
The word ethology, which is often associated with the work of Konrad Lorenz, refers to
the study of animals' behavior in their natural environment
When comparing a tertiary group with a primary or secondary group
the tertiary group is more likely to deal with severe pathology
All of the following are difficulties with career testing except
the tests all take at least three hours to administer.
When professional career counselors use the term leisure they technically mean
the time the client has away from work which is not being utilized for obligations
A major group dynamic is group development. This is usually expressed in terms of
theories of group stages
Research related to elementary school counselors indicates that
these counselors are effective, do make a difference in children's lives, and more counselors should be employed
Interest inventories are positive in the sense that
they are reliable and not threatening to the test taker
Coleaders are apt to work at cross purposes when
they do not meet between group sessions.
One major criticism of interest inventories is that
they emphasize professional positions and minimize blue-collar jobs
Self-serving or individual roles are negative inasmuch as
they work against the group & they serve the individual and not the group.
J.P. Guilford isolated 120 factors which added up to intelligence. He also is remembered for his
thoughts on convergent and divergent thinking
Rogers felt that ______________ for client change to occur.
three conditions are necessary
Lawrence Kohlberg suggested
three levels of morality
Most experts in the field of group counseling would agree that the most important trait for group members is the ability
to trust
The gestalt dialogue experiment generally utilizes the concepts of
top dog, underdog, and the empty chair technique
T-groups often stress ways employees can express themselves in an effective manner. The "T" in T-groups merely stands for
training
Occupational aptitude tests like the Differential Aptitude Test (DAT) and the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Test (ASVAB) grew out of the
trait-and-factor movement related to career counseling
When a client projects unconscious feelings toward the therapist that he or she originally had toward a significant other, it is called
transference
A person-centered therapist would
treat all diagnostic categories of the DSM using the same principles.
Sensorimotor is to Piaget as oral is to Freud, and as _______ is to Erikson.
trust versus mistrust
When a group member is speaking, it is best for the counselor to
try to face the group member
Although the length of group counseling sessions will vary, most experts would agree that _______ is plenty of time even when critical issues are being examined.
two hours per session
An achievement test measures maximum performance or present level of skill. Tests of this nature are also called attainment tests, while a personality test or interest inventory measures
typical performance
Id, ego, superego is to structural theory as _______________ is to topographical theory
unconscious, preconscious, conscious
A counselor with a master's degree who is working for minimum wage at a fast-food restaurant due to a lack of jobs in the field is a victim of
underemployment
In gestalt therapy unexpressed emotions are known as
unfinished business
Biological similarities and sameness are indicated by
universal culture
A client says she has a tingling sensation in her hands each time she talks about the probability of marriage. A gestalt therapist would most likely
urge the client to stay with the feeling
A man says, "My life has been lousy for the past six months." The counselor replies, "Can you tell me specifically what has made life so bad for the last six months?" The counselor is
using concreteness
An adept multicultural counselor
usually supports the salad bowl model of diversity
In contrast with classical psychoanalysis, psychodynamic counseling or therapy
utilizes fewer sessions per week, does not utilize the couch and is performed face to face.
Which is more important, validity or reliability?
validity
The most critical factors in test selection are
validity and reliability
The most difficult intermittent schedule to extinguish is the
variable ratio
Attending behavior that is verbal is also called
verbal tracking
Strategies that focus on an individual member of the group are known as
vertical interventions
The zone of proximal development
was pioneered by Lev Vygotsky
A counselor doing research decided to split a standardized test in half by using the even items as one test and the odd items as a second test and then correlating them. The counselor
was testing reliability via the split-half correlation method
Groups promote the concept of universality, which suggests that
we are not the only ones in the world with a given problem
In cross-cultural counseling, structuring is very important. This concept asserts that counseling is most effective
when the nature and structure of the counseling situation is described during the initial session
The in basket technique would be best
when you are on a hiring committee and assessing candidates for a managerial position
In the field of testing, validity refers to
whether the test really measures what it purports to measure
In Freudian theory, attachment is a major factor
which evolves primarily during the oral age.
Roe spoke of three basic parenting styles: overprotective, avoidant, or acceptant. The result is that the child
will develop a personality which gravitates (i.e., moves) toward people or away from people.
The group IQ test movement began
with the Army Alpha and Army Beta in World War I.
According to the concept of sex-wage or gender-wage discrimination
women make less than men for doing the same job
Lifestyle includes
work, leisure & style of living.
Counseling generally occurs in a clinical setting while consultation generally occurs in a ___________ setting.
work/organizational
A woman who is being robbed
would find that the number of people who would respond to her distress actually decreases as the number of bystanders increases
In an ipsative measure the person taking the test must compare items to one another. The result is that
you cannot legitimately compare two or more people who have taken an ipsative test
In a cyclical test
you have several sections which are spiral in nature
Most experts in the field of counseling agree that
no one theory completely explains developmental processes; thus, counselors ought to be familiar with all the major theories
A theorist who views developmental changes as quantitative is said to be an empiricist. The antithesis of this position holds that developmental strides are qualitative. What is the name given to this position?
organicism
Jean Piaget's idiographic approach created his theory with four stages. The correct order from stage 1 to stage 4 is
Sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations, formal operations
The tendency for adult females in the United States to wear heels is best explained by
Sex-role socialization
Kohlberg's second level of morality is known as conventional morality. This level is characterized by
A desire to live up to society's expectations and a desire to conform
Elementary school counseling and guidance services
A fairly new development which did not begin to gain momentum until the 1960s
Piaget's final stage is known as the formal operational stage. In this stage
Abstract things emerges and problems can be solved using deduction
Eleanor Gibson researched the matter of depth perception in children by utilizing
An apparatus known as a visual cliff
The sequence of object loss, which goes from protest to despair to detachment, best describes the work of
Bowlby
Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson agreed that
Each developmental stage needed to be resolved before an individual could move on to the next stage
The only psychoanalyst who created a developmental theory which encompasses the entire life span was
Erik Erikson
Trust versus mistrust is
Erikson's first stage of psychosocial development
Kohlberg's highest level of morality is termed postconventional morality. Here the individual
Has self-imposed morals and ethics
Development
Is a continuous process which begins at conception
Freud's Oedipus complex or Oedipus stage
Is the stage in which fantasies of sexual relations with the opposite-sex parent occur and occurs during the phallic stage
In adolescence
Males commit suicide more often than females, but females attempt suicide more
The schema, mental representation of the world, of permanency and constancy of objects occurs in the
Sensorimotor stage - birth to 2 years.
In girls the Oedipus complex may be referred to as
The Electra complex
John Bowlby, the British psychiatrist, is most closely associated with
bonding and attachment