NCE Practice Test with explanations questions with complete solutions

NCE Practice Test with explanations questions with complete solutions .A ___ occurs when all the members of some set of individuals have an equal chance of being selected. a. population b. collection c. sample of convenience d. random sample - Answer-d. random sample .A 45-year old woman is returning to the labor market after an absence of nearly 20 years. She does not know what work she should apply for because she claims she has no skills. Besides dealing with self-concept and confidence issues, the career counselor will attempt to help the woman identify a. obsolescence factors b. 'empty nest' issues c. a mentor d. transferable skills - Answer-transferable skills .A change in the forces in one part of a closed system affects the entire system. This can be accurately applied to a. the Holland hexagon b. a support group c. force-field analysis d. Johari window - Answer-d. Johari window .A collectivistic, group-oriented value system is most likely to explain career behavior of a. young European immigrants b. older Native American and Asian American workers c. middle-aged white males d. young and professionally trained white women - Answer-b. older Native American and Asian American workers .A counseling group begins with ten individuals. By the end of the third session, two members have dropped. One of the remaining members knows of an individual who would like to join the group. The member asks the group leader if this is possible and he tells her no. It is likely that this is a __ group. a. closed b. homogeneous c. working d. structured - Answer-a. closed .A counselor educator at a large university studied different counseling modalities for students who came to the counseling center with relationship/self-esteem problems. There was a waiting list to accommodate all the students. As a researcher, he was curious whether men or women gained self-esteem differentially whether they were seen in individual counseling, group counseling, or small psychoeducational class (18 to 20 students). There was also a possibility of an interaction between gender and the kind of service they received. The appropriate statistical technique to use in this situation was a. one-way analysis of variance b. factorial analysis of variance c. t-test d. multivariate analysis of variance - Answer-factorial analysis of variance .A counselor educator gave the same final exam to two classes studying human growth and development. In Class A, the final exam scores were normally distributed and in Class B there was definite negative skew in exam results. The counselor educator would be correct in making the following statement. a. More students mastered the material in Class A than Class B b. The mean, median, and mode are the same for Class A students c. Over 50% of students in Class A scored higher than the mean d. a different final exam should be used in each class - Answer-b. The mean, median, and mode are the same for Class A students .A counselor is about to begin a short-term group for whom generating insight is NOT an issue. The counselor is most likely to choose a. psychoanalytical or TA approaches b. behavioral or reality approaches c. client-centered or gestalt approaches d. adlerian or cognitive approaches - Answer-b. behavioral or reality approaches .A counselor performs pre-marital counseling in conjunction with a church whose pastor refers couples to her. Ordinarily, the counselor sees the couple together twice, two times individually, and twice together again for a total of six sessions. In her second individual session with Tom, the counselor learns that he has not broken off an affair with another woman, not his prospective marriage partner. An appropriate counselor response is to a. insist Tom tell his future wife b. remind Tom of their agreement there would be no secrets c. refer the couple to a more experienced pre-marital counselor d. decide to provide Tom more individual counseling sessions - Answer-remind Tom of their agreement there would be no secrets .A doctoral student is curious about how bilingual kindergarten children interact verbally with monolingual children of a different racial group. She decides to study this for her doctoral research. A research method which may be most appropriate to consider is a. ethnographic b. experiemental c. analogue d. survey - Answer-Ethnographic .A group of individuals completed two assessment devices. The correlation between the two sets of scores was .81. An accurate interpretation of that correlation coefficient is a. the higher the individuals scored on tone test, the lower they scored on the other. b. the individuals scored high on both tests, or they scored low on both tests c. scoring high on one test caused the high score on the other test. d. an accurate interpretation cannot be made - Answer-b. the individuals scored high on both tests, or they scored low on both tests .A high school career counselor had 24 seniors sign up for a three-session job seeking skills workshop. He randomly assigned 12 students to the job seeking group and 12 to a control group. The counselor developed some new materials and techniques to be used by the 'experimental' group. In designing this study, the counselor was also concerned about a. providing a placebo experience to the control group b. the Hawthorne effect c. confidentiality d. the halo effect - Answer-Providing a placebo experience to the control group .A high school counselor specializes in assisting graduating seniors to get into their college of choice with the best possible chance for financial aid. Which of the following counselor activities is NOT unethical? a. providing old copies of standardized tests b. outlining essays which students will send to colleges c. calling college financial aid officers on behalf of students d. suggesting parents 'doctor' tax statements to increase financial aid eligibility - Answer-c. calling college financial aid officers on behalf of students .A licensed professional counselor in private practice is also trained in career counseling and occasionally sees a client for career work. Generally, the counselor receives insurance reimbursement for services she provides for her career clients who are often experiencing anxiety and work-related stress. The counselor assigns a DSM code to these clients even though the insurance companies policies indicate that payment for career services is not reimbursable. Which of the following statements is most accurate? a. The counselor is okay because she is concerned about the general health and welfare of the client as the ethical code expects b. The counselor is not okay because career counseling problems are not reimbursable and this is insurance fraud. c. The counselor is okay because the experts in the literature agree that career counseling is personal counseling. d. The counselor knows other counselors who have rec - Answer-The counselor is not okay because career counseling problems are not reimbursable and this is insurance fraud. .A mental health counselor had data on three personality tests for over 300 former clients. The tests measured over 30 variables and the counselor was interested to see if these tests might be measuring some common factors. To do this she conducted a a. factor analysis b. content analysis c. factorial analysis of variance d. item analysis - Answer-a. factor analysis .A middle school principal is curious whether different math-teaching techniques result in different (and better) math learning. She has three classrooms of fourth-grade math students and assigns different math-teaching techniques to the three teachers to use for the school year. All students completed the same math exam in September as a pretest and will posttest in May. upon examining math pretest scores, the principal finds that the Classroom A mean math score is 72, Classroom B Mean is 88, and Classroom C mean is 73. In May, after posttest data are collected, an appropriate statistical procedure for the principal to apply first is a. multiple regression b. analysis of covariance c. t-test d. analysis of variance - Answer-analysis of covariance .A part-time clerical staff person has been hired for a private counseling agency. The professional staff has heard that this worker has been perusing computer files of active clients. Ther is no evidence that this worker has told anyone else of this confidential material. In this situation, the responsibility of the professional staff is to a. impress the staff person of the gravity of confidentiality of counseling information and train her in appropriate clerical duties b. find out if the clerical worker has shared any confidential information with anyone outside of the office c. dismiss the clerical worker d. suggest that the clerical worker read the code of ethics - Answer-impress the staff person of the gravity of confidentiality of counseling information and train her in appropriate clerical duties.