NCE Practice Questions with Complete Solutions

Which Person Has Been Called The Father Of Individual Psychology? - Adler A child has trouble understanding that the amount of juice she sees being poured is the same amount when it is in her sippy cup and when it is in her baby brother's bottle. She believes the narrower bottle has more juice. She is in the developmental stage labeled by Piaget as: - Concrete Operations Alice is very afraid of flying. She starts with her counselor by talking about a flight. She ends the session by drawing a plane. She next time talks about her concerns looking at her picture, and then looks at three other pictures of planes. The third time she starts by looking at the plane pictures and seeing a model of a plane. She holds the plan model and starts to discuss a plan to visit the airport. The script mirrors a therapy technique called: - Desensitization Victor Frankl is known for - Logotherapy You are not certain that the test you are using is really measuring the anxiety trait you are interested in. It is correct to say that you are concerned about the test's: - Validity During a group counseling meeting, a member makes several depressed remarks about his life. He mentions that the would be better off dead. Things progress for the group toward other issues and he is quiet. During the middle of the session he makes angry and threatening remarks towards his girlfriend. He states that he wants to kill her for flirting with the neighbor. At the close of the session he again repeats that he would be better off dead since people always betray him. As a counselor you are: - Required legally to warn his girlfriend of his behavior The shadow is an archtype that - Encompasses everything a person refuses to acknowledge At a conference you hear a colleague talking about concerns of symptom substitution with a young client whose parents are pushing for rapid symptom reduction. You make the assumption that this colleague is: - An analytically trained counselor A conditioned association in a person means - A learned association All behavioral reinforcers - always raise behavioral probability In a normal curve - The mean, median, and mode are at the same point. In attempting to understand the life perspectives and characteristics of their clients, some counselors use Kohlberg's theory of moral development as a theoretical framework. These counselors know that Kohlberg's theory includes three progressive levels culminating in: - A principled thought, wherein the individual adopts a self-accepted set of standards of behavior 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 Research on the development of a person in a so-called "humanistic life outlook" has shown that it is facilitated by: - formal educational experiences observational learning experiences diverse interpersonal interactions When persons who are characteristically shy and withdrawn participate in "assertiveness traning," initially they experience uncertainty and self-doubt. Counselors refer to this social psychological concept as: - cognitive dissonance "Men 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 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 counselors know that groups are formed for different purposes. In some groups the primary goal is to yield some specified outcome, or "product", while others the primary goal is to focus on the process of interaction in the group. Which group is more product than process oriented? - Behavioral In the context of group counseling, members that are high in conformity also tend to be high in: - Authoritarianism A counselor who structures a career counseling group to help group members understand a "field of levels" approach to careers is following the theory of: - Roe The concept of "career maturity" has been described and researched most extensively by: - Crites Person A and Person B both took the same test. Person A got a score of 100 while Person B got a score of 75. In order for a counselor to determine whether the difference between their scores was because of "chance", the counselor would need to know which of the following characteristics of the test: - Standard error of measurement