Career Counseling Final Review Exam
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
A major tenet of Super's theory is that the career pattern one follows through life: - CORRECT
ANSWER Results from expression of one's vocational self-concept
Krumboltz and associates stress that each individual's unique learning experiences during the life span
develop primary influences that lead to career choice. Which statement is not listed as part of these
primary influences? - CORRECT ANSWER a.
Career-entry behavior such as applying for a job or selecting an educational or training institution
b.
Expanding capabilities and interests
c.
Sets of developed skills used in coping with the environment
d.
Generalization of self-derived from experiences and performance in relation to learned standards
(B IS CORRECT)
SCCT subscribes to which of the following theories? - CORRECT ANSWER Bandura's triad
reciprocal theory
Occupational aspirations is the main theme of which theorist? - CORRECT ANSWER
Gottfredson
Who developed cognitive information processing (CIP) theory? - CORRECT ANSWER
Peterson, Sampson and Reardon
As early as the 1940s, who was promoting the idea that career development is a process that unfolds
gradually during the life span? - CORRECT ANSWER Super
,The choice model of the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) is divided into three components as
follows: - CORRECT ANSWER Define goals, initiate action, success is determined by future
behavior
According to the Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) theory, the major strategy of career
interventions is to: - CORRECT ANSWER Provide learning interventions to enhance one's
information processing ability
Trait-oriented theories are embedded in whose vocational counseling paradigm of matching individual
traits with requirements of occupations? - CORRECT ANSWER Parsons
Learning Theory of Career Counseling (LTCC) involves which factors? - CORRECT ANSWER
Genetic endowments and special abilities, environmental conditions and events, learning
experiences, and task approach skills
What did John Holland (1992) stress as being important in the search for vocational satisfaction and
stability? - CORRECT ANSWER The importance of self-knowledge
The career development theory that includes genetic endowments, special abilities, environmental
conditions, and events is by the following author: - CORRECT ANSWER Krumboltz
The process by which an individual narrows his or her territory when making a decision about space
or acceptable alternatives, is referred to as: - CORRECT ANSWER circumscription
From a social cognitive perspective, which three key theoretical constructs are considered to be
building blocks determining the course of career development and its outcome? - CORRECT
ANSWER Self-efficacy, outcome expectations and personal goals
PEC theory emphasizes that: - CORRECT ANSWER Job satisfaction is related to work
reinforcers
Which of the following key points is NOT congruent with Dawis and Lofquist's theory? - CORRECT
ANSWER a.
, Job placement is best accomplished through a match of worker traits with the requirements of a work
environment
b.
Individual needs and the reinforce system that characterizes the work setting are important aspects of
stability and tenure
c.
Individual needs are most important in determining an individual's fit into the work environment
d.
Work personality and work environment do not always need to be amenable
(D IS CORRECT ANSWER)
Holland's model of personality types incorporates five key concepts. Which of the following is the
correct answer? - CORRECT ANSWER Consistency, differentiation, identity, congruence and
calculus
Gelso and Fretz (2001) grouped career development theories as follows: - CORRECT ANSWER
trait-orientated theories, social learning and cognitive theories, developmental theories and
person-in-environment theories.
The person-environment-correspondence (PEC) theory was initially referred to as: - CORRECT
ANSWER the theory of work adjustment (TWA).
The term "social space" refers to: - CORRECT ANSWER the zone of acceptable alternatives in
each person's map of occupations, or each person's view of where he or she fits or would want to fit
into society.
In the early 1990s, Super created a model to delineate the changing diversity of life roles experienced
by individuals during the life span. What is the title of this model? - CORRECT ANSWER
Archway model
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
A major tenet of Super's theory is that the career pattern one follows through life: - CORRECT
ANSWER Results from expression of one's vocational self-concept
Krumboltz and associates stress that each individual's unique learning experiences during the life span
develop primary influences that lead to career choice. Which statement is not listed as part of these
primary influences? - CORRECT ANSWER a.
Career-entry behavior such as applying for a job or selecting an educational or training institution
b.
Expanding capabilities and interests
c.
Sets of developed skills used in coping with the environment
d.
Generalization of self-derived from experiences and performance in relation to learned standards
(B IS CORRECT)
SCCT subscribes to which of the following theories? - CORRECT ANSWER Bandura's triad
reciprocal theory
Occupational aspirations is the main theme of which theorist? - CORRECT ANSWER
Gottfredson
Who developed cognitive information processing (CIP) theory? - CORRECT ANSWER
Peterson, Sampson and Reardon
As early as the 1940s, who was promoting the idea that career development is a process that unfolds
gradually during the life span? - CORRECT ANSWER Super
,The choice model of the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) is divided into three components as
follows: - CORRECT ANSWER Define goals, initiate action, success is determined by future
behavior
According to the Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) theory, the major strategy of career
interventions is to: - CORRECT ANSWER Provide learning interventions to enhance one's
information processing ability
Trait-oriented theories are embedded in whose vocational counseling paradigm of matching individual
traits with requirements of occupations? - CORRECT ANSWER Parsons
Learning Theory of Career Counseling (LTCC) involves which factors? - CORRECT ANSWER
Genetic endowments and special abilities, environmental conditions and events, learning
experiences, and task approach skills
What did John Holland (1992) stress as being important in the search for vocational satisfaction and
stability? - CORRECT ANSWER The importance of self-knowledge
The career development theory that includes genetic endowments, special abilities, environmental
conditions, and events is by the following author: - CORRECT ANSWER Krumboltz
The process by which an individual narrows his or her territory when making a decision about space
or acceptable alternatives, is referred to as: - CORRECT ANSWER circumscription
From a social cognitive perspective, which three key theoretical constructs are considered to be
building blocks determining the course of career development and its outcome? - CORRECT
ANSWER Self-efficacy, outcome expectations and personal goals
PEC theory emphasizes that: - CORRECT ANSWER Job satisfaction is related to work
reinforcers
Which of the following key points is NOT congruent with Dawis and Lofquist's theory? - CORRECT
ANSWER a.
, Job placement is best accomplished through a match of worker traits with the requirements of a work
environment
b.
Individual needs and the reinforce system that characterizes the work setting are important aspects of
stability and tenure
c.
Individual needs are most important in determining an individual's fit into the work environment
d.
Work personality and work environment do not always need to be amenable
(D IS CORRECT ANSWER)
Holland's model of personality types incorporates five key concepts. Which of the following is the
correct answer? - CORRECT ANSWER Consistency, differentiation, identity, congruence and
calculus
Gelso and Fretz (2001) grouped career development theories as follows: - CORRECT ANSWER
trait-orientated theories, social learning and cognitive theories, developmental theories and
person-in-environment theories.
The person-environment-correspondence (PEC) theory was initially referred to as: - CORRECT
ANSWER the theory of work adjustment (TWA).
The term "social space" refers to: - CORRECT ANSWER the zone of acceptable alternatives in
each person's map of occupations, or each person's view of where he or she fits or would want to fit
into society.
In the early 1990s, Super created a model to delineate the changing diversity of life roles experienced
by individuals during the life span. What is the title of this model? - CORRECT ANSWER
Archway model
