NCE Practice Test Questions with correct Answers 2023

1. Susie is playing with blocks and is trying to build a tower; she tries but cannot build a tower. Susie's mother helps her build a four-block tower. Later, Susie builds a four-block tower without her mother's help. According to Vygotsky, the inability to build the tower on her own is known as: - The zone of proximal development (this is a range of tasks that are too difficult for children to do alone, but possible with help) According to Erickson, when an individual fails to develop a strong sense of identity, the individual will have troubles with the development of: - Intimacy (individuals who fail to attain a lower level of development will fail to attain the next higher level). Which of the following is the correct sequence of stages in Freud's theory of personality development? - Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital Jacob's father tells Jacob to clean his room. When Jacob asks why, his father responds, "Because I said so." The father's response is most representative of which parenting style? - Authoritarian (uses coercion and psychological control to discipline children) Harry Harlow used baby monkeys and several different kinds of "surrogate mothers" to investigate which factors are important in early development and attachment. According to his findings, baby monkeys: - Preferred a soft terry cloth mother to a wire mesh mother than holds a bottle. Which of the following is a myth about suicide in the United States? - Asking someone about suicide may push that person over the edge. Cody does what his parents say because he doesn't want to lose his television privileges. This is an example of what level in Kohlberg's theory of moral development? - Preconventional (the individual is most concerned with consequences) Josie likes to play peek-a-boo with her little brother, Jack. According to Piaget, Jack finds this game fun because he has acquired ____________, which is one of the primary tasks of the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development. - Object permanence The theorist associated with bonding and attachment is: - Bowlby Henry, a 72-year-old widower, reminisces with his daughter about his life. He talks about his successes and regrets. This is an example of Erikson's: - Ego integrity stage When it comes to displaying aggression, girls more often engage in ____________ aggression than boys. - Relational All of the following are physical characteristics of Down Syndrome EXCEPT: - Large hands and feet Which of the following statements is true when considering cultural and familial influences on self-esteem? - An authoritative parenting style usually allows children to have especially high self-esteem Research on gay and lesbian couples - They are as dedicated to and as effective at child rearing as are heterosexual parents. In the Stanford prison study, what caused the guards to treat the prisoners harshly? - It was the social context that determined the behaviors of both the guards and the prisoners. In the Stanford prison study, the setting was so realistic that the participants became guards and prisoners. Their personal identities were masked by the context of being in a prison as either a guard or a prisoner In the original studies, Milgram and his colleagues found that people were more likely to disobey under all of the following circumstances EXCEPT when __________. - the victim was in an adjoining room so the "teacher" heard every sound the victim made In the Stanford prison simulation, male college students agreed to participate in an experiment to discover what would happen when they took on the roles of prisoners and guards. The researchers found that __________. - The individuals who played one role or another really took on their role. It did not matter how the guards treated them or acted toward them, the fact that they became like "real" prisoners was the key finding. Individuals who played guards took on behaviors of "real" guards; and individuals who played prisoners took on behaviors of "real" prisoners. In what ways do stereotypes distort reality? - Stereotypes distort one's ideas about how one group is so different from another group. In reality, the differences between groups are not as extreme as stereotypes make them out to be. Jennifer has to choose between spending the evening at home with her parents or spending the evening babysitting her younger sister. Jennifer does not like either of these choices. This situation describes an: - Since Jennifer doesn't like either of the choices, this would be an avoidance-avoidance conflict. It is simply picking between the lesser of two evils. Connie tells each of her clients that the best way she can help them is to attempt to look at the world from the client's point of view. This counselor is taking the _________ perspective - Emic (this view considers that culture matters) Working with individuals from different cultures requires that the counselor: - Have sensitivity and knowledge about other cultures. A high standard of counseling practice when working with diverse populations involves all of the following EXCEPT: - Treating all clients the same way When working with individuals from different cultures, the effective counselor may NOT: - Maintain good eye contact at all times. Murray is a bright student, but he procrastinates. He puts off writing term papers and gets incompletes, which eventually become Fs. Murray's therapist helps him establish small, specific goals rather than vague, long-range goals. The therapist also asks Murray to keep a diary of how he is spending his time when he is avoiding his studies. The method used to help Murray deal with his problem is __________ therapy. - Behavioral The social learning perspective is to the psychodynamic perspective as ____________________ are to ________________________ - Environmental conditions, unconscious dynamics The process of saying freely whatever comes to mind in connection with dreams, fantasies, or memories in the course of a psychodynamic therapy session, is referred to as _____________________________ - Free association 27. Which of the following is not a behavioral therapy? - Unconditional positive regard 28. The primary goal of __________ therapy is to find meaning in life - Existential 29. Which of the following pairings of problem and the most successful therapy for that problem is INCORRECT? - Childhood behavior problems and existential therapy 30. The bond of confidence and mutual understanding established between therapist and client is called the _______. - Therapeutic alliance 31. An apparent treatment success that is due to the patient's expectation or hopes rather than the treatment itself is called ____________. - the placebo effect