Which of the following is a principal of career counseling ethical codes?
a. advice
b. autonomy
c. authority
d. astuteness
Which of the following statements might be used when developing descriptions of
value patterns that are associated with a specific occupation?
a. I could work on the job with others.
b. I like to accomplish many tasks at work.
c. Workers on this job need math skills.
d. Workers on this job are busy during working hours.
Mark is 18 and his counselor is 65. The theory that provides the most understanding for
dealing with age discrepancies between counselor and client is
a. cognitive information processing theory.
b. Holland’s theory.
c. Myers-Briggs Type theory.
d. Super’s theory.
Which of the following is NOT an important aspect of happenstance learning theory?
a. flexibility
b. persistence
c. risk taking
d. self-efficacy
Len is a college sophomore, majoring in agricultural management. He is finding that he
would prefer livestock management to other types of farming. According to Super, he is
currently in this substage:
a. consolidating
b. curiosity
c. implementing
d. stabilizing
Mavis decides that after spending two years as a cashier that it would be a good idea for
her to go to business school so that she can make a better income. Mavis’s decision can
best be explained by
a. human capital theory.
b. status attainment theory.
c. the structure of the labor market.
d. work adjustment theory.
Work adjustment theory focuses most on
a. abilities and interests.
b. abilities and values.
c. personality and interests.
d. personality and values.
Computer assisted guidance tools, such as DISCOVER and SIGI3, tend to be most
similar to
a. Gottfredson’s theory.
b. the spiritual approach
c. trait and factor theory.
d. work adjustment theory.
Which of the following theories is most concerned with career issues that affect
women?
a. social cognitive career theory
b. Holland’s theory
c. Krumboltz’s social learning theory
d. work adjustment theory
Which of the following statements is true about Hopson and Adams’s transition model.
a. Each stage is experienced by all individuals in differing orders.
b. All individuals experience all stages in similar sequence.
c. Not all stages are experienced by all people, nor is the sequence always identical.
d. The model applies more directly to men than to women.
Which of the following classification systems is most related to commonly known
interest areas?
a. Dictionary of Occupational Titles
b. Guide for Occupational Exploration
c. O*NET
d. Standard Occupational Classification System
Counselor A believes that the career decision-making is a process and that there is no
Abest@ way to make career decisions. Her approach would best be called
a. descriptive.
b. existential.
c. prescriptive.
d. sequential.
This statement from a counselor, “Your A grade on the math test is a great
accomplishment for you and one that you have worked hard towards achieving” could
be classified by Krumboltz as
a. a comment on an associative learning experience.
b. a comment on an instrumental learning experience.
c. a task-approach skill.
d. reinforcement.
Clara enjoys fixing cars and understanding how they work. She would like to learn how
to improve the design of automobile engines and to work on developing better ignition
systems. Her Holland personality type is most likely to be
a. Artistic and Investigative.
b. Conventional and Investigative.
c. Enterprising and Investigative.
d. Realistic and Investigative.
Which of the following is NOT a part of social cognitive career theory?
a. choice goals
b. associative learning experiences
c. interests
d. outcome expectations
In cognitive information processing theory, starting to think about problems in choosing
a career would fit with this step.
a. communication
b. analysis
c. synthesis
d. valuing
e. execution
Which term did Super use to describe the five major life stages?
a. lifecycle
b. maxicycle
c. minicycle
d. recycling
Fiona is in the second grade. Which of the following is least likely to be a key figure for
her?
a. mother
b. professional athlete
c. teacher
d. younger sister
Which of the following career counseling approaches is most concerned about cultural
diversity?
a. cognitive information processing theory
b. Holland’s theory
c. Hansen’s holistic approach to life planning
d. Phillips’s development relationship model
Which theory views career counseling as dealing with the client’s story?
a. Holland’s theory
b. narrative counseling
c. Phillips’s theory
d. Super’s theory
Anne Roe’s career development theory was based on the work of
a. Carl Rogers.
b. Donald Super.
c. John Holland.
d. Sigmund Freud.
John Holland originally started his theory with
a. psychometric findings about values.
b. research on occupations.
c. the research detailing specific principles used in work adjustment theory.
d. the idea that career choice is an extension of peoples personalities.
In Cochran’s counseling, when the gap between the client’s problem and possible
solutions diminish significantly then ___________ is said to have taken place.
a. composing a life history.
b. constructing a reality.
c. crystallizing a career decision.
d. elaborating a career problem.
Zelda has been laid off from the company where she works as a civil engineer. Her
placement counselor believes she will be most effective in searching for a new job if
she is in this stage of Hopson and Adams model of transitions.
a. immobilization
b. crystallization
c. self-doubt
d. testing out
Eliza enjoys all her subjects and does well in them. There is very little that she dislikes.
Now that he is a freshman in college, she has no idea of what program of study to
choose. According to Holland, which term best describes Eliza’s dilemma?
a. congruent
b. differentiated
c. incongruent
d. undifferentiated
According to Savickas, life designing includes
a. deconstructing
b. modernism.
c. wavering
d. structuring
Candice has been thinking about her uncomfortable work situation for a long time. She
feels that her supervisor has little regard for her opinion and ideas. However, she does
not discuss this with anyone. According to Myers-Briggs type theory, Candice is
primarily using one of these functions.
a. extraversion
b. introversion
c. judgment
d. perception
Which of the following theorists does NOT have a developmental model of career
development?
a. cognitive information processing theorists
b. Vondracek
c. Gottfredson
d. Super
Harmon doesn’t now how people find out about jobs or how they get occupational
information. Harmon’s thinking is best described by Super’s concept of
a. Career exploration.
b. Decision-making.
c. Knowledge of the preferred occupational group.
d. World-of-work information.