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Information on gender and pay shows that
a. men tend to earn more while women earn less.
b. women tend to earn more while men earn less.
c. women tend to enter highly paid professions.
d. women receive high salaries early in their careers.
In Savickas's career construction theory the client's personality could be described as?
a. artistic, social, and enterprising
b. enmeshed
c. extraverted
d. decelerating
Career counseling may address
a. the reliability coefficients of assessment instruments.
b. the development of the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
c. the contributions of the National Career Development Association.
d. personal issues.
Which of the following theorists describes in detail how biological factors influence
career development?
a. Erikson
b. Gottfredson
c. Holland
d. Super
According to social cognitive career theory, which of the following could be a proximal
influence to choice behavior?
a. barrier
b. goal
c. outcome
d. self-efficacy
A diagram of family relationships is called a
a. career-o-gram.
b. genogram.
c. telegram.
d. zen-o-gram.
Don is very aware of the objects that he sees in his job as a wait person. According to
Myers-Briggs type theory he is using
a. feeling.
b. intuiting.
c. sensing.
d. thinking.
Which of the following theories is most concerned with career issues that affect
culturally diverse populations?
a. social cognitive career theory
b. Holland's theory
c. Krumboltz's social learning theory
d. work adjustment theory
The Minnesota Occupational Classification System is used to
a. classify occupations according to interests.
b. classify occupations using the Guide for Occupational Exploration.
c. classify occupations according to personality.
d. match information about self and information about occupations.
Which of these theories focuses on prestige as a measure of occupational success?
a. human capital theory
b. status attainment theory
c. Holland's theory
d. work adjustment theory
In general, theories should
a. be clear about counseling techniques to use.
b. be clear about counseling goals.
c. be precise about predictions.
d. be precise about which assessment instruments to use.
Psychoanalysis is the basis for which of these career development theories?
a. Anne Roe's personality development theory
b. John Holland's personality theory
c. parent-child interaction theory
d. work adjustment theory
Which of the following is NOT important in evaluating a theory?
a. being consistent
b. being explicit about rules
c. chunking
d. making precise predictions.
Which of the following occupational classification systems was designed so that it can
be updated on the computer?
a. Dictionary of Occupational Titles.
b. Guide for Occupational Exploration System.
c. Holland's system.
d. The O*NET
Gloria is a sophomore in college and plans to study hard the remainder of the year, in
part, because she skipped many of her classes and spent Thursday through Sunday
drinking beer with her friends. Which of the following indicators of the salience of life
roles best describes her belief?
a. commitment
b. knowledge
c. participation
d. values expectation
After work, Jennie spends much of her time doing volunteer work in a mission, helping
to care for the homeless. Which of Super's life roles describes these activities?
a. community service
b. home and family
c. studying
d. working
Which of these instruments can be considered a self-counseling instrument?
a. Holland's Self-Directed Search
b. Minnesota Importance Questionnaire
c. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
d. Scholastic Assessment Test
Which career development theory emphasizes relationships in working more than
career choice?
a. Erikson's identity theory
b. Phillips's theory
c. attachment theory
d. Blustein's theory
In a spiritual approach to career counseling, the counselor focuses on
a. the past.
b. the present.
c. the future.
d. all of the above.
The term "double jeopardy" could refer to which of the following groups?
a. Latino men
b. Latina women
c. White men
d. White women
Computer assisted guidance systems differ from tests and inventories in that computer
guidance systems
a. are potentially unethical.
b. contain an occupational data base.
c. have a self-assessment component.
d. have no relationship to career development theory.
Listening to Jane describing her problems at work, a counselor using work adjustment
theory focuses particularly on
a. interests
b. Holland type.
c. values
d. vocational maturity
When an individual has reached the last stage of Hopson and Adams transition model,
then is starting to take place.
a. immobilization
b. internalization
c. testing out
d. self-doubt
Helping high school students experience jobs through the use of job experience kits is a
form of
a. challenging beliefs.
b. goal clarification.
c. reinforcement.
d. simulation.
Fred is seven and would like to be a professional baseball player. He sees this as
something that can happen quite soon. According to Super, he has yet to develop
a. external control.
b. planfulness.
c. problem solving.
d. time perspective.
Interest in Artistic and Investigative Holland themes can be best described as
a. congruent.
b. consistent.
c. incongruent.
d. inconsistent.
Lulu finds her job as a chemical engineer much more difficult than she thought. As a
result, even after five years at work, she continues to work hard to keep up with the job
demands. According to Super, she is currently in this substage:
a. decelerating
b. holding
c. innovating
d. specifying
Which of the following theories views an individual like a firm?
a. human capital theory
b. status attainment theory
c. social cognitive career theory
d. work adjustment theory
Which of the following is associated with the concept of Aprotean careers?
a. congruence
b. managing the career of others
c. flexibility
d. time perspective
Tim has decided that he wants to go to graduate school to become a ceramic engineer.
According to social cognitive career theory he is demonstrating his
a. goals.
b. instrumental learning experiences.
c. outcome expectations.
d. self-efficacy concerns.
Parent-child career interaction theorists study
a. early childhood attachment patterns.
b. parents' attitudes towards their children.
c. videotaped conversations between parents and their children.
d. family genograms at various points in time.
Which of the following is NOT a principle of counseling ethical codes?
a. autonomy
b. beneficence
c. fidelity
d. legality
When a counselor asks a client to pretend to interview for a job, and the counselor
pretends to be an employer, the counselor is
a. countering a troublesome belief.
b. using cognitive rehearsal.
c. using role playing.
d. reinforcing the client.
Which of the following counts and scores correct answers only?
a. achievement tests.
b. interest inventories.
c. personality inventories.
d. value inventories or scales.
