Which of the following statements might be used in a measure of value patterns that are
associated with different occupations?
a. I could help others with personal problems.
b. I know how to help others with personal problems.
c. Workers on this job help others with personal problems.
d. Workers on this job frequently must do heavy lifting.
Reexamining interests and abilities would require this phase of cognitive information
processing skills. a. communication
b. analysis
c. synthesis
d. valuing
e. execution
Enjoying organizing financial data suggests this environment.
a. Artistic
b. Conventional
c. Enterprising
d. Investigative
e. Social
Which of the following techniques is not a cognitive technique used in career
counseling?
a. countering troublesome beliefs
b. cognitive rehearsal
c. goal clarification
d. simulation
The most severe type of sexual harassment is
a. sexual assault.
b. sexual bribery.
c. sexual coercion.
d. verbal remarks.
Alice is having difficulty selling herself to employers. Her counselor concludes that her
reticent nature reflects her Realistic rather than Enterprising personality. Her counselor
is using
a. cognitive information processing theory.
b. Holland’s theory.
c. Myers-Briggs Type theory.
d. work adjustment theory.
Research evidence exists to
a. challenge Parsons’s original ideas about career development.
b. establish evidence for the reliability and validity of a large number of tests and
inventories.
c. support the superiority of general trait and factor theory over work adjustment theory.
d. support the validity of trait and factor theory over Holland’s theory.
In the DOT code 123.456.789 which digit refers to dealing with people
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6
The values inventory that is most frequently used to measure values when applying
work adjustment theory is the
a. Massachusetts Allegorical Values Scale.
b. Minnesota Importance Questionnaire.
c. Study of Values Scale.
d. Values Scale.
Joan is a college senior who plans to work as an administrator in a community agency.
However, she is not sure which type of community agency she would like to work in.
According to Super, she is currently in this substage:
a. crystallizing
b. implementing
c. specifying
d. stabilizing
When clients say ” The test told me I should be a farmer or plumber.”, they are probably
misinterpreting a(an)
a. achievement test.
b. interest inventory.
c. personality inventory.
d. values inventory or scale.
Frequent career exploration behavior is most likely to be found in one or more of these
attachment patterns.
a. anxious-ambivalent
b. avoidant
c. secure
d. all of the above
Phillips and her colleagues have examined career decision-making as it relates to
a. attachment to parents.
b. conventional thinking.
c. actions of others.
d. specifying.
Relationships with parents is most important in this theory of career development.
a. attachment theory
b. Blustein’s relational theory of working
c. Phillips’s developmental relationship model
d. Roe’s personality development model
Agatha has just asked her supervisor for a raise. The supervisor said that although her
work is good, Agatha must work nights or she can not get a raise. Agatha is worried
about her two small children and is afraid of the impact of working nights on them.
According to Myers-Briggs type theory she is using
a. feeling.
b. intuiting.
c. sensing.
d. thinking.
Which of the following words would be inappropriate to use when describing an
occupational title?
a. fire fighter
b. plumber
c. policeman
d. roofer
Which of the following is NOT one of Gottfredson’s stages of career development?
a. concrete operations
b. focus on prestige
c. orientation to size and power
d. orientation to sex roles
Zakia is 16 and decides not to go to medical school because she is getting a C in
biology. Which of the following of Gottfredson’s concepts apply to her decision?
a. circumscription
b. compromise
c. life niche
d. social niche
Using drawing and anecdotes are techniques associated with
a. narrative career counseling.
b. Savickas’s social constructionist career counseling.
c. social cognitive career counseling.
d. trait and factor counseling
Jim has been told that his job as an electrical engineer has been terminated immediately
and that he has one hour to clean out his desk. According to Hopson and Adams, he is
likely to be in this transition stage.
a. immobilization
b. internalization
c. letting go
d. self-doubt
Josh has had many transfers and new assignments in his work for the Acme Bolts
Company. In the last two years, he has had six different changes in assignments
including one which includes moving to another part of the U. S. This experience can
be called a
a. boundaryless careers.
b. kaleidoscope careers.
c. protean careers.
d. standardized careers.
“Maintenance” and “disengagement” stages are a part of
a. Holland’s theory.
b. Hopson and Adam’s theory.
c. Myers- Briggs Type theory.
d. Super’s developmental theory.
“Sensing” and “intuiting” are terms associated with
a. Holland’s theory.
b. Myers- Briggs Type theory.
c. social learning theory.
d. Super’s developmental theory.
Dealing with trauma due to sudden job termination is covered most completely by
a. Holland’s theory.
b. Hopson and Adam’s theory.
c. Myers- Briggs Type theory.
d. Super’s developmental theory.
Kelvin is becoming aware of his social values and is considering the ministry as a
career. According to Howard and Walsh he is probably at this level of vocational
reasoning.
a. magical thinking.
b. interaction.
c. realism.
d. world-of-work information.
Alvin is concerned that he is no longer as interested in being an electrical engineer as he
once was. Alvin is raising questions about his
a. career.
b. validity.
c. theory.
d. norms.
The genogram is associated with this approach.
a. attachment theory
b. family therapy
c. parent-child interaction therapy
d. Roe’s personality development
The concept of energy is important in this theoretical approach to career development.
a. cognitive information processing
b. Krumboltz’s social learning
c. spiritual
d. social cognitive
Which of these is NOT a dimension of career adaptability?
a. concern
b. control
c. congruence
d. confidence
Gottfredson relies on a theory that explains the process of children’s learning which
includes biological and social factors that is called
a. gene-drives-experience theory.
b. socialization theory.
c. trait and factor theory.
d. work adjustment theory.
In her Lifecareer Theory, Miller-Tiedeman emphasizes the importance of listening to in
making career decisions.
a. experts in specific occupations
b. expert advice from counselors
c. friends and family
d. one’s self
Although Alice does not particularly like her job as a cashier, she has been concerned
about the fact that business has been slow and that there have been rumors of layoffs.
As a result she has been working much harder. According to Super, she is currently in
this substage:
a. decelerating
b. holding
c. innovating
d. specifying
Most writers believe that personal and career counseling
a. can be done by the same person if the counselor recognizes that the two types of
counseling are significantly different.
b. have little in common, as personal issues do not affect career issues.
c. overlap considerably as both career and personal issues affect each other.
d. should be done by different individuals with different qualifications.