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CPCE Foundational Information
A professional counselor determines fees for monthly consultation services on a job-by-job
basis. This is an example of which of the following types of reinforcement schedules?
variable ratio
Many members of the counseling profession have engaged in social reform efforts intended to
reduce spouse abuse. These efforts have had limited effect because:
many people, both male and female, believe that spouse abuse is a "family matter" and,
therefore, not subject to intervention from persons outside the family
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A counselor was working with a client who had been referred by a supervisor because the client
had been having problems with co-workers, problems primarily attributable to the client's
prejudicial attitudes toward ethnic minorities. The counselor asked how the client had come to
hold the (prejudicial) attitudes the client was presenting. The client replied "I don't really know or
care. It just makes those folks easier to understand." The client's statements reflect which of the
following models have been used to explain the formation of prejudicial attitudes?
information processing
3 multiple choice options
Because of the nature of the counseling process, some concepts from the field of speech and
communications are readily applied to counseling. For example, counselors often find it
appropriate to give (ie. send) persuasive messages to clients. Such messages are more likely to
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be received (ie. heard and accepted) if the counselor, as the message sender, exhibits certain
characteristics. Which of the following is NOT a primary characteristic of effective persuasive
communicators?
emotionality
3 multiple choice options
A group of people living together with prescribed patterns of interdependent behavior could be
best described as a:
society
3 multiple choice options
Which of the following does NOT influence conformity to the expected standards of behavior
within a culture?
events
3 multiple choice options
Client: "I just can't see myself working in a hospital, being around sick kids all day." Counselor:
"You just don't like kids."
The counselor in this example has made which of the following types of reflection error?
meaning
3 multiple choice options
Which of the following is a basic assumption underlying effective use of Caplan's Mental Health
Consultation model?
Mental health consultation is a supplement to other problem-solving mechanisms within an
organization.
3 multiple choice options
Ellis' rational emotive therapy and Meichenbaum's cognitive behavior modification approaches
to counseling are similar in that both hold that:
all of the above
3 multiple choice options
"Men (used here to mean all people) are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they
take of them." This quote, attributable to Epictetus, most closely describes the counseling theory
developed by:
Ellis
3 multiple choice options
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The counseling technique in which the counselor intensifies the client's emotional state in order
to help the client understand the irrationality of the emotional reaction is known as:
Paradoxical intention
3 multiple choice options
Counselors know that groups are formed for different purposes. For example, in some groups
the primary goal is to yield some specified outcome, or "product" while in others the primary goal
is to focus on the "process" of interaction within the group. Which one of the following types of
groups is more product than process orientated?
Behavioral
3 multiple choice options
In the context of group counseling, members who are high in conformity also tend to be high in:
authoritarianism.
3 multiple choice options
A specific technique for reinforcing desirable behaviors by paring them with incompatible
behaviors and incorporating principles for relaxation is:
systematic desensitization
3 multiple choice options
The "compensatory" theory of leisure suggests that a certified public accountant would enjoy
________ whereas the "spillover" theory of leisure suggest that the accountant would enjoy as a
leisure activity
racquet ball - chess
3 multiple choice options
A counselor who works with adolescents is familiar with the knowledge that they tend to
over-select professional positions and occupations when asked about "what they are planning to
do for a living when they grow up." In terms of Gelatt's decision- making paradigm, adolescents
tend to have errors in their systems.
prediction
3 multiple choice options
A counselor who is following Super's theory of career development would not be surprised to
learn that a person whom the counselor believed to be in the "Establishment" stage had"
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sought preretirement counseling
3 multiple choice options
Which of the following is NOT one of the four major elements in Super's approach to career
development?
values clarification
3 multiple choice options
One of the primary differences in clients' uses of career counseling resources in print media
format (eg. Dictionary of Occupational Titles or Occupational Outlook Handbook) and those in
computerized format (eg. Choices, Discover II, SIGI, or ECES) is the:
speed with which information can be retrieved for use.
3 multiple choice options
A student obtained a score of 93 on a test having a standard error of measurement of 4 points.
In interpreting results, the counselor correctly informed the student that
A. the student could not get a score above 97 no matter how many times the test was retaken
by the student.
B. the student had scored among the top 11 percent of those who had taken the test.
C. the student had achieved a score that was at least four points above the national mean.
D. more than likely the student would get a score between 89 and 97 if the student took the test
again.
D. more than likely the student would get a score between 89 and 97 if the student took the test
again.
In a consulting capacity with a local business college, a counselor had recommended
administration of a clerical aptitude test to students in each of the two first-year classes; 35
students in one class and 29 students in the other. The tests had been scored by computer and
an internal consistency reliability coefficient of .78 had been found for the entire group. The
counselor, however, was interested in the classes separately, and therefore, calculated the
reliability coefficients for each class.
The counselor would expect the reliability coefficients for the separate classes to be _______
.78.
A. lower than
B. about the same as
C. higher than
D. Insufficient information is provided to make an estimate.
A. lower than
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CPCE Foundational Information
A professional counselor determines fees for monthly consultation services on a job-by-job
basis. This is an example of which of the following types of reinforcement schedules?
variable ratio
Many members of the counseling profession have engaged in social reform efforts intended to
reduce spouse abuse. These efforts have had limited effect because:
many people, both male and female, believe that spouse abuse is a "family matter" and,
therefore, not subject to intervention from persons outside the family
Brainpower
Read More
Previous
Play
Next
Rewind 10 seconds
Move forward 10 seconds
Unmute
0:00
/
0:15
Full screen
A counselor was working with a client who had been referred by a supervisor because the client
had been having problems with co-workers, problems primarily attributable to the client's
prejudicial attitudes toward ethnic minorities. The counselor asked how the client had come to
hold the (prejudicial) attitudes the client was presenting. The client replied "I don't really know or
care. It just makes those folks easier to understand." The client's statements reflect which of the
following models have been used to explain the formation of prejudicial attitudes?
information processing
3 multiple choice options
Because of the nature of the counseling process, some concepts from the field of speech and
communications are readily applied to counseling. For example, counselors often find it
appropriate to give (ie. send) persuasive messages to clients. Such messages are more likely to
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be received (ie. heard and accepted) if the counselor, as the message sender, exhibits certain
characteristics. Which of the following is NOT a primary characteristic of effective persuasive
communicators?
emotionality
3 multiple choice options
A group of people living together with prescribed patterns of interdependent behavior could be
best described as a:
society
3 multiple choice options
Which of the following does NOT influence conformity to the expected standards of behavior
within a culture?
events
3 multiple choice options
Client: "I just can't see myself working in a hospital, being around sick kids all day." Counselor:
"You just don't like kids."
The counselor in this example has made which of the following types of reflection error?
meaning
3 multiple choice options
Which of the following is a basic assumption underlying effective use of Caplan's Mental Health
Consultation model?
Mental health consultation is a supplement to other problem-solving mechanisms within an
organization.
3 multiple choice options
Ellis' rational emotive therapy and Meichenbaum's cognitive behavior modification approaches
to counseling are similar in that both hold that:
all of the above
3 multiple choice options
"Men (used here to mean all people) are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they
take of them." This quote, attributable to Epictetus, most closely describes the counseling theory
developed by:
Ellis
3 multiple choice options
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The counseling technique in which the counselor intensifies the client's emotional state in order
to help the client understand the irrationality of the emotional reaction is known as:
Paradoxical intention
3 multiple choice options
Counselors know that groups are formed for different purposes. For example, in some groups
the primary goal is to yield some specified outcome, or "product" while in others the primary goal
is to focus on the "process" of interaction within the group. Which one of the following types of
groups is more product than process orientated?
Behavioral
3 multiple choice options
In the context of group counseling, members who are high in conformity also tend to be high in:
authoritarianism.
3 multiple choice options
A specific technique for reinforcing desirable behaviors by paring them with incompatible
behaviors and incorporating principles for relaxation is:
systematic desensitization
3 multiple choice options
The "compensatory" theory of leisure suggests that a certified public accountant would enjoy
________ whereas the "spillover" theory of leisure suggest that the accountant would enjoy as a
leisure activity
racquet ball - chess
3 multiple choice options
A counselor who works with adolescents is familiar with the knowledge that they tend to
over-select professional positions and occupations when asked about "what they are planning to
do for a living when they grow up." In terms of Gelatt's decision- making paradigm, adolescents
tend to have errors in their systems.
prediction
3 multiple choice options
A counselor who is following Super's theory of career development would not be surprised to
learn that a person whom the counselor believed to be in the "Establishment" stage had"
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sought preretirement counseling
3 multiple choice options
Which of the following is NOT one of the four major elements in Super's approach to career
development?
values clarification
3 multiple choice options
One of the primary differences in clients' uses of career counseling resources in print media
format (eg. Dictionary of Occupational Titles or Occupational Outlook Handbook) and those in
computerized format (eg. Choices, Discover II, SIGI, or ECES) is the:
speed with which information can be retrieved for use.
3 multiple choice options
A student obtained a score of 93 on a test having a standard error of measurement of 4 points.
In interpreting results, the counselor correctly informed the student that
A. the student could not get a score above 97 no matter how many times the test was retaken
by the student.
B. the student had scored among the top 11 percent of those who had taken the test.
C. the student had achieved a score that was at least four points above the national mean.
D. more than likely the student would get a score between 89 and 97 if the student took the test
again.
D. more than likely the student would get a score between 89 and 97 if the student took the test
again.
In a consulting capacity with a local business college, a counselor had recommended
administration of a clerical aptitude test to students in each of the two first-year classes; 35
students in one class and 29 students in the other. The tests had been scored by computer and
an internal consistency reliability coefficient of .78 had been found for the entire group. The
counselor, however, was interested in the classes separately, and therefore, calculated the
reliability coefficients for each class.
The counselor would expect the reliability coefficients for the separate classes to be _______
.78.
A. lower than
B. about the same as
C. higher than
D. Insufficient information is provided to make an estimate.
A. lower than
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