LAW 105 PRACTICE QUIZ QUESTIONS AND AVAILABLE

LAW 105 PRACTICE QUIZ QUESTIONS AND AVAILABLE Which person has been called the Father of Individual Psychology? - ANS Adler 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: - ANS Concrete Operations 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: - ANS Desensitization Victor Frankl is known for - ANS Logotherapy You are not certain that the test you are using is really measuring the anxiety trait you are interested in. It is correct to say that you are concerned about the test's: - ANS Validity During a group counseling meeting, a member makes several depressed remarks about his life. He mentions that the would be better off dead. Things progress for the group toward other issues and he is quiet. During the middle of the session he makes angry and threatening remarks towards his girlfriend. He states that he wants to kill her for flirting with the neighbor. At the close of the session he again repeats that he would be better off dead since people always betray him. As a counselor you are: - ANS Required legally to warn his girlfriend of his behavior The shadow is an archtype that - ANS Encompasses everything a person refuses to acknowledge 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: - ANS An analytically trained counselor A conditioned association in a person means - ANS A learned association All behavioral reinforcers - ANS always raise behavioral probability In a normal curve - ANS The mean, median, and mode are at the same point. In attempting to understand the life perspectives and characteristics of their clients, some counselors use Kohlberg's theory of moral development as a theoretical framework. These counselors know that Kohlberg's theory includes three progressive levels culminating in: - ANS A principled thought, wherein the individual adopts a self- accepted set of standards of behavior 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? - ANS Variable Ratio Research on the development of a person in a so-called "humanistic life outlook" has shown that it is facilitated by: - ANS formal educational experiences observational learning experiences diverse interpersonal interactions When persons who are characteristically shy and withdrawn participate in "assertiveness traning," initially they experience uncertainty and self-doubt. Counselors refer to this social psychological concept as: - ANS cognitive dissonance "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: - ANS Ellis The counseling technique in which the counselor intensifies the client's emotional state in order to help the client understand the irrationality of the emotional reaction is known as: - ANS paradoxical intention 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 primary goal is to focus on the process of interaction in the group. Which group is more product than process oriented? - ANS Behavioral In the context of group counseling, members that are high in conformity also tend to be high in: - ANS Authoritarianism 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: - ANS Roe The concept of "career maturity" has been described and researched most extensively by: - ANS Crites Person A and Person B both took the same test. Person A got a score of 100 while Person B got a score of 75. In order for a counselor to determine whether the difference between their scores was because of "chance", the counselor would need to know which of the following characteristics of the test: - ANS Standard error of measurement A person got a score of 85 on a norm-referenced test. This means that the person: - ANS Insufficient Information 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? - ANS 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? - ANS Analysis of co-variance As applied to professional licensure of counselors, the term "reciprocity" means that: - ANS one licensing agency agrees to accept the licensing standards of another as sufficient for its own Your client shares with you her ongoing state of conflict with her brother. You encourage her to act out her thoughts and feelings as if you, her counselor were actually her brother. what type of therapeutic theory are you using? - ANS Gestalt Your teen client, tells you that hes willing to shower, comb his hair, and dress well on Friday nights because it gains him the attention of a girl he likes. What operant conditioning principle is at work here? - ANS Premack principle Who theorized about "primary narcissism" - ANS Freud Raymond Cattell's "factor analysis" theory refers to three types of traits. What are they? - ANS Source, surface, and unique B.F. Skinner found that deprivation will the probability of an operant - ANS Increase Susie is playing with blocks and is trying to build a tower, she tries but cannot build a tower. Susie's mother helps her build a four-block tower. Later, Susie builds a four-block tower without her mother's help. According to Vygotsky, the inability to build the tower on her own is known as: - ANS Scaffolding 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 - ANS Emic When working with individuals from different cultures, the effective counselor may not: - ANS Maintain good eye contact at all times Systematic desensitization and "flooding" are therapies - ANS Behavioral When beginning a counseling relationship, you are ethically required to - ANS Inform the patient of the limits of confidentiality As you begin the counseling relationship, it is important to - ANS jointly decide, between patient and counselor, how the counseling process will proceed 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? - ANS Your personal belief system should not have any bearing on the therapeutic relationship You have been involved in a counseling relationship with a client for six months, when he presents you with a small gift. What should you do? - ANS Accept or decline depending upon the circumstances You are court-ordered to disclose confidential information about a client you are counseling. What do you do? - ANS Limit as much as possible & Obtain written permission from your client What should you do if your client requests to see his confidential file? - ANS Accept or decline depending on the circumstances You are a counselor with several clients, and at the same time you are adjusting to a difficult divorce. You aren't sleeping or eating well, find you are highly destractible, and generally are less in-touch with your emotional state. You should... - ANS Be alert to your mental status, and be able to determine if continuing with your clients poses any threat of being detrimental to the counseling process 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 - ANS It is not considered ethical to preform a forensic evaluation on a current or past client, so you should decline You are the supervisor for a new counselor, and are asked to attend her wedding. Would it be ethical to do so? - ANS Yes, you should be able to attend her wedding without a breach of ethics Most ethical issues are related to... - ANS Confidentiality