George has said: My football coach has suggested that I look for an athletic scholarship
at a major university for next year@. According to Phillips’s developmental career
relational model, this is an example of
a. forced guidance.
b. insecure use of others.
c. push/nudge.
d. unconditional support.
In narrative counseling, a counselor serves a role somewhat like that of a (an)
a. coach.
b. editor.
c. mentor.
d. physician.
Which of these models is the most comprehensive approach to career counseling?
a. Holland’s typology approach
b. Myers-Briggs Type theory
c. social cognitive career theory
d. Super’s Career-Development Assessment and Counseling (C-DAC)
Counselors who apply work adjustment theory to counseling use tests and inventories
to match the client’s
a. abilities and interests with those required by occupations.
b. abilities and values with those required by occupations.
c. abilities, interests, personality characteristics, and values with those required by
occupations.
d. personality characteristics with those required by occupations.
A goal of Savickas’s career construction theory is for the counselor to produce verbal
and written _____________________________ which are presented to clients that
form the basis for further career exploration.
a. early recollections
b. role model summaries
c. life portraits
d. preoccupation to occupation summaries
Studying the effect of relationships with other people on the career development of
individuals is the focus of
a. attachment theory.
b. family therapy.
c. Phillips’s developmental relational model.
d. Roe’s personality development theory.
Adolescents are able to approach career decision-making by using abstract thinking.
Using Jean Piaget’s theory, which stage are they likely to be in?
a. sensorimotor
b. preoperational
c. concrete operations
d. formal operations
Self acceptance and reducing stress are an important aspect of this career development
theory.
a. Holland’s typology
b. social learning theory
c. a spiritual approach
d. work adjustment theory
According to Super, a drive that is basic to the development of career exploration in
children is
a. aggression.
b. curiosity.
c. self-actualization.
d. self-efficacy.
Which age group is most likely to be underemployed?
a. 17-26 year olds
b. 27-36 year olds
c. 37-46 year olds
d. 47-65 years old
The anxious ambivalent pattern of behavior in young children is associated with this
theory.
a. attachment theory
b. family systems therapy
c. Phillips’s developmental relational model
d. Super’s developmental theory
Holland’s theory can be used to
a. classify occupational literature.
b. conceptualize individual types.
c. conceptualize environments.
d. all of these
Jane and her counselor have different ways of perceiving and intuiting. This statement
reflects
a. construct theory
b. Holland’s theory.
c. Myers-Briggs Type theory.
d. Super’s theory.
For constructivist career counselors, career counseling should focus on
a. early childhood development.
b. career as a way of providing meaning in life
c. interests, abilities, values, and personality.
d. occupational information.
Brandon is an advertising manager. Every hour of his working day he makes decisions
that affect other decisions and various products. Which phrase best describes this type
of career.
a. boundaryless careers.
b. kaleidoscope careers.
c. protean careers.
d. standardized careers.
The Parent Involved Career Exploration Counseling Process (PICE) features counseling
which focuses on
a. the parent’s discussing career issues with a counselor and without the child present.
b. the parents and children working together with a counselor.
c. the child’s attachment to the parents.
d. furthering an enmeshed relationship between child and parent.
Occupational Ability Patterns, used in work adjustment theory, are derived from
a. measuring traits of workers and performing job analyses.
b. reading occupational information.
c. talking to supervisors of employees as well as the employees themselves.
d. weighing the relative importance of job satisfaction and satisfactoriness for a variety
of occupations.
The test that is used most frequently in work adjustment theory to measure abilities is
the
a. Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery.
b. Differential Aptitude Test.
c. General Aptitude Test Battery.
d. Scholastic Aptitude Test.
Brenda has enjoyed teaching and music but little else. Her interests are
a. consistent.
b. differentiated.
c. incongruent.
d. undifferentiated.
Which of these are responsible for the most changes in the U.S. work force?
a. growth needs
b. natural disasters
c. military demands
d. replacement needs
According to status attainment theory, one of the best predictors of occupational success
is
a. parental occupation.
b. participation in sports.
c. peer pressure.
d. previous work experience.
Continually, Elvis must put tiny screws into a machine part and tighten them. This
working environment fits which Holland environment?
a. Artistic
b. Conventional
c. Enterprising
d. Investigative
e. Realistic
Contextual action theory is used to explain
a. the role of parenting style on the occupational choice of children.
b. how peers influence the career choice of students.
c. how parents and children perceive the children’s career decision-making.
d. attachment style of children and how it affects career choice.
Because Ellsworth enjoys interacting with others rather than thinking about his own
motives, and he makes decisions more on his judgments rather than his perception of
events, his counselor finds this theory useful in thinking about Ellsworth’s work
adjustment.
a. constructivist theory.
b. Holland’s theory.
c. Myers-Briggs Type theory.
d. Super’s theory.
When Carol plans how she will be become a physician, she is using this phase of
cognitive information processing theory:
a. communication
b. analysis
c. synthesis
d. valuing
e. execution
The concept of developmental change throughout life is associated with one of these
theories.
a. Holland’s theory
b. Myers-Briggs type theory
c. Super’s developmental theory
d. work adjustment theory
Which of the following terms refers to a smooth movement from one stage to another?
a. career maturity
b. crisis
c. life stage
d. transition
Which of the following theorists examined how adolescent career development changes
with age?
a. Myers
b. Gottfredson
c. Holland
d. Super
Dr. Almo is questioning whether he wants to continue being a dermatologist. He has
made a list of 20 occupations to consider in more depth. He is using this aspect of
cognitive information processing skills.
a. communication
b. analysis
c. synthesis
d. valuing
e. execution
According to Bloch and Richmond, meditation can be helpful in one’s career
development because it brings
a. change.
b. harmony.
c. testing out.
d. a job that pays well.
Talking to clients about the hobbies that they enjoy is most likely to reveal information
similar to that obtained from
a. aptitude tests.
b. interest inventories.
c. personality inventories.
d. value inventories or scales.
Krumboltz’s happenstance learning theory emphasizes’
a. the importance of taking advantage of unplanned events.
b. being aware of clients’ self-efficacy.
c. listening to the harmony within oneself.
d. rewriting the story of one’s’ lives.
According to Super, which one of these types of childhood behavior is most likely to
negatively affect career maturity?
a, curiosity
b. disobedience
c. unruliness
d. withdrawal