COUN 5279 FINAL EXAM 2026 ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Q: What is a cultural worldview? - ✔✔A: A person's beliefs about work, success,
family, duty, and identity.
✔✔Q: What is intersectionality in career work? - ✔✔A: Overlapping identities create
layered barriers or privileges.
✔✔Q: Key counselor responsibility in multicultural work? - ✔✔A: Adapt interventions to
the client's cultural values and context.
✔✔Q: Three core SCCT components? - ✔✔A: Self-efficacy, outcome expectations,
goals.
✔✔Q: Four sources of self-efficacy? - ✔✔A: Mastery, vicarious learning, social
persuasion, emotional states.
✔✔Q: Why is SCCT effective with diverse clients? - ✔✔A: It accounts for environmental
supports and barriers.
✔✔Q: What does RIASEC stand for? - ✔✔A: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social,
Enterprising, Conventional.
✔✔Q: What is congruence? - ✔✔A: Fit between personality and work environment.
✔✔Q: Main critique of RIASEC? - ✔✔A: Too individualistic; limited for collectivist
cultures.
✔✔Q: What is the goal of trait & factor counseling? - ✔✔A: Match traits (interests,
abilities) to work environments.
✔✔Q: Major strength of trait & factor counseling? - ✔✔A: Clear, structured decision-
making.
✔✔Major weakness of trait & factor counseling? - ✔✔A: Assumes stable traits and
ignores systemic barriers.
✔✔Q: Name the five life stages. - ✔✔A: Growth, Exploration, Establishment,
Maintenance, Disengagement.
✔✔Q: What is career adaptability? - ✔✔A: Concern, control, curiosity, confidence.
✔✔Q: What drives career choice according to Super? - ✔✔A: Self-concept.
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Q: What is a cultural worldview? - ✔✔A: A person's beliefs about work, success,
family, duty, and identity.
✔✔Q: What is intersectionality in career work? - ✔✔A: Overlapping identities create
layered barriers or privileges.
✔✔Q: Key counselor responsibility in multicultural work? - ✔✔A: Adapt interventions to
the client's cultural values and context.
✔✔Q: Three core SCCT components? - ✔✔A: Self-efficacy, outcome expectations,
goals.
✔✔Q: Four sources of self-efficacy? - ✔✔A: Mastery, vicarious learning, social
persuasion, emotional states.
✔✔Q: Why is SCCT effective with diverse clients? - ✔✔A: It accounts for environmental
supports and barriers.
✔✔Q: What does RIASEC stand for? - ✔✔A: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social,
Enterprising, Conventional.
✔✔Q: What is congruence? - ✔✔A: Fit between personality and work environment.
✔✔Q: Main critique of RIASEC? - ✔✔A: Too individualistic; limited for collectivist
cultures.
✔✔Q: What is the goal of trait & factor counseling? - ✔✔A: Match traits (interests,
abilities) to work environments.
✔✔Q: Major strength of trait & factor counseling? - ✔✔A: Clear, structured decision-
making.
✔✔Major weakness of trait & factor counseling? - ✔✔A: Assumes stable traits and
ignores systemic barriers.
✔✔Q: Name the five life stages. - ✔✔A: Growth, Exploration, Establishment,
Maintenance, Disengagement.
✔✔Q: What is career adaptability? - ✔✔A: Concern, control, curiosity, confidence.
✔✔Q: What drives career choice according to Super? - ✔✔A: Self-concept.
