NCE Practice Questions
"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 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 A client arrives for counseling with the
presenting complaint of relationship difficulties. She goes on to
describe that she has had multiple abortions, and seems to use
abortion as a birth control method. You are personally opposed to
abortions. How should your personal beliefs impact the therapeutic
relationship? - Your personal belief system should not have any
bearing on the therapeutic relationship A conditioned association in
a person means - A learned association A counselor conducted a
study intended to evaluate the effectiveness of ongoing group
career counseling on the vocational maturity of high school
sophomores. The study was begun in September and continued
until June. This study is particularly susceptible to which of the
following threats to the validity of an experiment? - Maturation A
counselor designs a study where two experimental groups and one
control group complete pre-and post-experiment measures of self-
concept. The subjects were not randomly assigned to the groups
because of scheduling problems. Which of the following techniques is
MOST appropriate for analyzing the resultant data? - Analysis of
co-variance 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 A former client of yours
, has been arrested for a crime. As a former counselor, you are called
to preform a forensic evaluation. what is your responsibility - It is
not considered ethical to preform a forensic evaluation on a
current or past client, so you should decline A person got a score of
85 on a norm-referenced test. This means that the person: -
Insufficient 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 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 All behavioral reinforcers - always raise behavioral
probability As applied to professional licensure of counselors, the
term "reciprocity" means that: - one licensing agency agrees to
accept the licensing standards of another as sufficient for its own
As you begin the counseling relationship, it is important to - jointly
decide, between patient and counselor, how the counseling process
will proceed 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 B.F. Skinner found that deprivation will _______ the
probability of an operant - Increase 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 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
"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 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 A client arrives for counseling with the
presenting complaint of relationship difficulties. She goes on to
describe that she has had multiple abortions, and seems to use
abortion as a birth control method. You are personally opposed to
abortions. How should your personal beliefs impact the therapeutic
relationship? - Your personal belief system should not have any
bearing on the therapeutic relationship A conditioned association in
a person means - A learned association A counselor conducted a
study intended to evaluate the effectiveness of ongoing group
career counseling on the vocational maturity of high school
sophomores. The study was begun in September and continued
until June. This study is particularly susceptible to which of the
following threats to the validity of an experiment? - Maturation A
counselor designs a study where two experimental groups and one
control group complete pre-and post-experiment measures of self-
concept. The subjects were not randomly assigned to the groups
because of scheduling problems. Which of the following techniques is
MOST appropriate for analyzing the resultant data? - Analysis of
co-variance 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 A former client of yours
, has been arrested for a crime. As a former counselor, you are called
to preform a forensic evaluation. what is your responsibility - It is
not considered ethical to preform a forensic evaluation on a
current or past client, so you should decline A person got a score of
85 on a norm-referenced test. This means that the person: -
Insufficient 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 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 All behavioral reinforcers - always raise behavioral
probability As applied to professional licensure of counselors, the
term "reciprocity" means that: - one licensing agency agrees to
accept the licensing standards of another as sufficient for its own
As you begin the counseling relationship, it is important to - jointly
decide, between patient and counselor, how the counseling process
will proceed 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 B.F. Skinner found that deprivation will _______ the
probability of an operant - Increase 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 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
