THE NATIONAL COUNSELING EXAM
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE THIS
YEAR JUST RELEASED
Question 1: Who was the "father" of the career counseling
movement?
Answer:
Frank Parsons
Question 2: What is the NOICC?
Answer:
National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee
Est. in 1976 by Congress to
1) develop occupations info systems for each state
2) assist the organization of state committees
3) assist all users to share information
4) provide labor market info for the youth
Question 3: Define Protean Career
Answer:
Encompasses any kind of flexible, idiosyncratic career course, unique to each
person
Question 4: The total constellation of psychological, sociological,
educational, physical, economic, and chance factors that combine
to influence the nature and significance of work in the total life
span of any given individual
Answer:
, Career Development as defined by the ACA
Question 5: Define acculturation
Answer:
Integrating one's own cultural beliefs and behaviors with the dominant culture.
Question 6: What is a key requirement in the career
decision-making processes?
Answer:
Effective career information processing skills
Question 7: Vocational guidance is accomplished by studying the
indivdual, surverying occupations and matching the individual with
the occupation is what kind of theory?
Answer:
Trait-and-Factor Theory (Parsons, 1909 and later Williamson, 1939)
Question 8: One of the major career counseling roles of early
trait-and-factor approaches was
Answer:
diagnosis
Question 9: person-environment-correspondence (PEC) has always
emphasized that
Answer:
work is more than step-by-step task-oriented procedures.
,Question 10: The process of achieving and maintaining
correspondence with a work environment is referred to as
Answer:
work adjustment (Dawis and Lofquist)
What theory encompasses:
1. Work and personality environments should be congruent
2. Individual needs are most important to determine work fit
3. Individual needs and reinforcer systems that character the work setting
provide stability and tenure
Question 11: 4. Job placement is best made by matching worker
traits with work requirements
Answer:
Dawis and Lofquist's theory
Question 12: achievement, advancement, authority, coworkers,
activity, security, social service, social status, and variety are
examples of
Answer:
Occupational reinforcement (Dawis and Lofquist)
Question 13: Dawis (1996, 2002) identified personality structure as
Answer:
stable characteristics of personality that consist primarily of abilities and values
Question 14: Typical temporal characteristics of an individual's
interaction with the environment is called
Answer:
, Personality style (Dawis)
Question 15: Adjustments usually follow one of two modes:
Answer:
active (worker tries to change enviro) and reactive (worker tries to gel with the
work enviro)
Question 16: The person-environment-correspondence theory
depends heavily on
Answer:
Client assessment
Question 17: This is recommended for measuring abilities
Answer:
US Employment Service's General Aptitude Test Battery
Question 18: This is recommended for assessing values
Answer:
Minnesota Importance Questionnaire
Question 19: This index is used for matching work skills to
requirements of occupations
Answer:
Minnesota Occupational Classification System III
Question 20: The characteristic abilities and values of individuals
who inhabit the work environment
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE THIS
YEAR JUST RELEASED
Question 1: Who was the "father" of the career counseling
movement?
Answer:
Frank Parsons
Question 2: What is the NOICC?
Answer:
National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee
Est. in 1976 by Congress to
1) develop occupations info systems for each state
2) assist the organization of state committees
3) assist all users to share information
4) provide labor market info for the youth
Question 3: Define Protean Career
Answer:
Encompasses any kind of flexible, idiosyncratic career course, unique to each
person
Question 4: The total constellation of psychological, sociological,
educational, physical, economic, and chance factors that combine
to influence the nature and significance of work in the total life
span of any given individual
Answer:
, Career Development as defined by the ACA
Question 5: Define acculturation
Answer:
Integrating one's own cultural beliefs and behaviors with the dominant culture.
Question 6: What is a key requirement in the career
decision-making processes?
Answer:
Effective career information processing skills
Question 7: Vocational guidance is accomplished by studying the
indivdual, surverying occupations and matching the individual with
the occupation is what kind of theory?
Answer:
Trait-and-Factor Theory (Parsons, 1909 and later Williamson, 1939)
Question 8: One of the major career counseling roles of early
trait-and-factor approaches was
Answer:
diagnosis
Question 9: person-environment-correspondence (PEC) has always
emphasized that
Answer:
work is more than step-by-step task-oriented procedures.
,Question 10: The process of achieving and maintaining
correspondence with a work environment is referred to as
Answer:
work adjustment (Dawis and Lofquist)
What theory encompasses:
1. Work and personality environments should be congruent
2. Individual needs are most important to determine work fit
3. Individual needs and reinforcer systems that character the work setting
provide stability and tenure
Question 11: 4. Job placement is best made by matching worker
traits with work requirements
Answer:
Dawis and Lofquist's theory
Question 12: achievement, advancement, authority, coworkers,
activity, security, social service, social status, and variety are
examples of
Answer:
Occupational reinforcement (Dawis and Lofquist)
Question 13: Dawis (1996, 2002) identified personality structure as
Answer:
stable characteristics of personality that consist primarily of abilities and values
Question 14: Typical temporal characteristics of an individual's
interaction with the environment is called
Answer:
, Personality style (Dawis)
Question 15: Adjustments usually follow one of two modes:
Answer:
active (worker tries to change enviro) and reactive (worker tries to gel with the
work enviro)
Question 16: The person-environment-correspondence theory
depends heavily on
Answer:
Client assessment
Question 17: This is recommended for measuring abilities
Answer:
US Employment Service's General Aptitude Test Battery
Question 18: This is recommended for assessing values
Answer:
Minnesota Importance Questionnaire
Question 19: This index is used for matching work skills to
requirements of occupations
Answer:
Minnesota Occupational Classification System III
Question 20: The characteristic abilities and values of individuals
who inhabit the work environment
