National Counselor Examination Study Guide Practice questions and answers best rated a+ Using motivation from 'within' is known as ______________ A. Inside motivation B. Interior motivation C. Intrinsic motivation D. Idealistic motivation

National Counselor Examination Study Guide
Practice questions and answers best rated a+



Using motivation from 'within' is known as ______________
A. Inside motivation
B. Interior motivation
C. Intrinsic motivation
D. Idealistic motivation - n
ANS✔
C. Intrinsic motivation


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Which of the following is not an example of extrinsic motivation?
A. Employee performance improves when wages are increased
B. A sleep apnea patient follows a strict sleep hygiene plan
C. Children finish a task more quickly if they are promised candy
D. A student studies more on a test to make the highest grade in the class - n
ANS✔
B. A sleep apnea patient follows a strict sleep hygiene plan


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Which of the following socioeconomic factor could affect the outcome of
therapeutic counseling? Choose all that apply.
A. Lack of transportation
B. Lack of intrinsic motivation
C. Lack of positive cultural norms for entering therapy
D. None of the above - n
ANS✔

,A. Lack of transportation
C. Lack of positive cultural norms for entering therapy


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What is the meaning of transference/countertransference relationships? Choose all
that apply.
A. A client transferring their relationship with another onto the therapist
B. The therapist transferring their relationship with another onto the client
C. Transferring the blame or outcome of behavior onto someone else
D. None of the above - n
ANS✔
A. A client transferring their relationship with another onto the therapist
B. The therapist transferring their relationship with another onto the client


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What is one instance that might cause a clinician to break the strong code of client
confidentiality?
A. Feeling the need to talk
B. Duty to warn
C. When the therapist is going on vacation
D. All of the above - n
ANS✔
B. Duty to warn


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Behavior Theory - n
ANS✔
comes from the idea that all behaviors are learned and acquired through a process
known as conditioning


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,What theory is most often associated with the psychologists B.F. Skinner and John
B. Watson? - n
ANS✔
behavior theory


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Behavior Therapy - n
ANS✔
concentrates on the observable behaviors of a person or group, and dismisses
internal mental states


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Key components of Behavior theory: - n
ANS✔
conditioning, reinforcement, and punishment


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What does behavioral theory NOT take into count? - n
ANS✔
the concepts of emotion or even the unconscious or subconscious, as these states
are subjective rather than objective


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Behaviorists believe that all behavior can be what? - n
ANS✔
Trained


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Classical Conditioning - n
ANS✔

, a process in which a subject comes to respond to a stimulus that was previously
considered neutral, continued exposure to the stimulus will elicit a desired response


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Operant Conditioning - n
ANS✔
a process in which a subject engages in the correct behavior through the use of
both rewards and punishments for a response. The subject learns to associate the
behavior with the outcome


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Who created the behavioral psychology theory based on the idea that human
beings respond to their environment; external stimuli, not internal stimuli? - n
ANS✔
Watson - he believed that all human beings could change their behavior through
classical or operant conditioning.


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Who developed the following schedules of reinforcement:
Continuous reinforcement, partial reinforcement (fixed ratio, variable ratio, fixed
interval, variable interval) - n
ANS✔
B.F. Skinner - behavioral theorist


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Continuous reinforcement schedule - n
ANS✔
reinforcing the desired response every time it occurs


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Partial reinforcement schedule - n
ANS✔