PFHS Final Exam Review questions with
verified answers
Career: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔A progression of related jobs a person has over an extended
period of time.
Career path: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔A career path helps you find out how you might move
from one job to another within a career cluster.
Credential/Certification: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔An earned distinction used to indicate a
professional is suitable and qualified to do something or work in a field.
Consumer services: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Pathway that includes occupations related to
helping individuals with decisions and problems relating to finance, real estate, insurance and
consumer goods.
Counseling and mental health: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Pathway that includes workers who
assist people with personal, family, educational, mental health, and career decisions and problems.
Might work in hospitals, clinics, schools or private settings.
Early childhood services: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Pathway that includes occupations related
to the nurturing or teaching of infants and young children in child care centers, nursery schools,
preschools, public schools, private households, and before- and after-school programs.
Family and community services: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Pathway that includes occupations
related to helping disabled, elderly, impoverished or other underrepresented populations to secure
housing, employment, financial assistance or other social services.
Human services: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔A broad career field that involves helping others to
improve their quality of life throughout the life span.
,Human services practitioner: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Person who works with in the human
services career field.
Anna Y. Reed: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Author of Junior Wage Earners book. Written in
1920. Proponent of children's education and vocational guidance in learning to better employment
potential. Also outspoken in the area of Prison Reform and the need to link prison placement with
rehabilitation.
Eli Weaver: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Organized teacher guidance committees in every high
school in New York. These committees were designed to help students discover their skills for the
most appropriate employment. Worked with Anna Y. Reed to judge a person's employability for
specific jobs.
Ellen Richards: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔The founder of the Home Economics, currently
known as Family and Consumer Sciences. First women in history to earn a degree in Chemistry.
First person to link the worlds of science and chemistry to nutrition.
Doris Calloway: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔American nutritionist from the University of
Berkeley, CA. Ran the "Penthouse Project". Developed the standards of nutrition and worked with
NASA to create "space food".
James Lind: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Scottish physician that fought to improve the hygiene
and nutrition of early naval sailors. Wrote Treatise of the Scurvy about treating the nutritionally
related disease of Scurvy. Introduced the use of citrus fruits, specifically oranges, as a way to protect
men at sea from developing Scurvy.
James Cattell: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔American psychologist that developed what was
known as "mental tests". Those test are known as intelligence measurement tests that are used today.
Believed that inherited as well as environmental influences have an affect on a person's mental
capabilities.
E.G. Williamson: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Thought of as one of the Fathers of Counseling.
Expanded counseling beyond its vocational orientation into other areas. Lead to career opportunities
in different types of counseling that we now have today.
,Carl Pfeiffer: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔American doctor who linked the use of nutrition and
biochemistry in aiding mental disorders and disturbances such as those experienced by
schizophrenic patients. Believed that trace minerals and biochemistry play a part in mental stability.
This became known as Pfeiffer's Law.
Jane Addams: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1st American women awarded a Noble Prize for her
work involving women and children. Opened the Hull House. Is recognized as the founding mother
of Social Work as we know it. Her work in aiding women and children in the areas of health,
community and world peace continues today.
Administration For Children and Families: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔These programs include
assistance with welfare, child support enforcement, adoption assistance, foster care, child care, and
child abuse.
Center for Disease Control-(CDC): - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔It especially focuses its attention
on infectious disease, environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion,
injury prevention and educational activities to improve health.
Center for Medicaid and Medical Services: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Program administers the
Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the
State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and health insurance portability standards.
Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Program works to
improve the health and well-being of Americans by developing and promoting dietary guidance that
links scientific research to the nutrition needs of consumers.
Community Planning Development: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Help communities plan and
finance their growth and development, increase their capacity to govern, and provide shelter and
services for homeless people.
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Enforces federal fair housing
laws and establishing policies that make sure all Americans have equal access to the housing of their
choice.
, Federal Housing Administration: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Improve housing standards and
conditions, provide an adequate home financing system through insurance of mortgage loans, and to
stabilize the mortgage market.
Food and Drug Administration-(FDA): - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Protects and promotes
public health through the regulation and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, cosmetics,
animal foods & feed and veterinary products.
Food and Nutrition Service: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Program increases food security and
reduces hunger in partnership with cooperating organizations by providing children and low-
income people access to food, a healthy diet, and nutrition education in a manner that supports
American agriculture and inspires public confidence.
Food Safety and Inspection Service: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Program enhances public
health and well-being by protecting the public from foodborne illness and ensuring that the nation's
meat, poultry and egg products are safe, wholesome, and correctly packaged.
NC Cooperative Extension: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Partnership between government, land-
grant universities (NC State and NC A&T) and Department of Agriculture to provide educational
programming in areas like: protecting the environment, maintaining viable communities,
developing responsible youth, and developing strong, healthy and safe families.
NC Department of Health and Human Services, Social Services: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔Protect children, strengthen families, and help all North Carolinians to achieve maximum self-
sufficiency. Issue Food Stamps, heating assistance and administer Child Protection Services.
NC Department of Justice, Attorney General's Office: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Protect NC
consumers by fighting unfair business practices like scams and frauds.
NC Dept. of Public Instruction: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Implements the State's public
school laws and State Board of Education's policies governing public education.
NC Division of Child Development and Early Education: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔A division
of the NC Health and Human Services Division that governs, guides and regulates early education,
child cares and assists in meeting needs for children and families.
verified answers
Career: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔A progression of related jobs a person has over an extended
period of time.
Career path: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔A career path helps you find out how you might move
from one job to another within a career cluster.
Credential/Certification: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔An earned distinction used to indicate a
professional is suitable and qualified to do something or work in a field.
Consumer services: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Pathway that includes occupations related to
helping individuals with decisions and problems relating to finance, real estate, insurance and
consumer goods.
Counseling and mental health: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Pathway that includes workers who
assist people with personal, family, educational, mental health, and career decisions and problems.
Might work in hospitals, clinics, schools or private settings.
Early childhood services: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Pathway that includes occupations related
to the nurturing or teaching of infants and young children in child care centers, nursery schools,
preschools, public schools, private households, and before- and after-school programs.
Family and community services: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Pathway that includes occupations
related to helping disabled, elderly, impoverished or other underrepresented populations to secure
housing, employment, financial assistance or other social services.
Human services: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔A broad career field that involves helping others to
improve their quality of life throughout the life span.
,Human services practitioner: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Person who works with in the human
services career field.
Anna Y. Reed: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Author of Junior Wage Earners book. Written in
1920. Proponent of children's education and vocational guidance in learning to better employment
potential. Also outspoken in the area of Prison Reform and the need to link prison placement with
rehabilitation.
Eli Weaver: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Organized teacher guidance committees in every high
school in New York. These committees were designed to help students discover their skills for the
most appropriate employment. Worked with Anna Y. Reed to judge a person's employability for
specific jobs.
Ellen Richards: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔The founder of the Home Economics, currently
known as Family and Consumer Sciences. First women in history to earn a degree in Chemistry.
First person to link the worlds of science and chemistry to nutrition.
Doris Calloway: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔American nutritionist from the University of
Berkeley, CA. Ran the "Penthouse Project". Developed the standards of nutrition and worked with
NASA to create "space food".
James Lind: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Scottish physician that fought to improve the hygiene
and nutrition of early naval sailors. Wrote Treatise of the Scurvy about treating the nutritionally
related disease of Scurvy. Introduced the use of citrus fruits, specifically oranges, as a way to protect
men at sea from developing Scurvy.
James Cattell: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔American psychologist that developed what was
known as "mental tests". Those test are known as intelligence measurement tests that are used today.
Believed that inherited as well as environmental influences have an affect on a person's mental
capabilities.
E.G. Williamson: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Thought of as one of the Fathers of Counseling.
Expanded counseling beyond its vocational orientation into other areas. Lead to career opportunities
in different types of counseling that we now have today.
,Carl Pfeiffer: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔American doctor who linked the use of nutrition and
biochemistry in aiding mental disorders and disturbances such as those experienced by
schizophrenic patients. Believed that trace minerals and biochemistry play a part in mental stability.
This became known as Pfeiffer's Law.
Jane Addams: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1st American women awarded a Noble Prize for her
work involving women and children. Opened the Hull House. Is recognized as the founding mother
of Social Work as we know it. Her work in aiding women and children in the areas of health,
community and world peace continues today.
Administration For Children and Families: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔These programs include
assistance with welfare, child support enforcement, adoption assistance, foster care, child care, and
child abuse.
Center for Disease Control-(CDC): - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔It especially focuses its attention
on infectious disease, environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion,
injury prevention and educational activities to improve health.
Center for Medicaid and Medical Services: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Program administers the
Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the
State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and health insurance portability standards.
Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Program works to
improve the health and well-being of Americans by developing and promoting dietary guidance that
links scientific research to the nutrition needs of consumers.
Community Planning Development: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Help communities plan and
finance their growth and development, increase their capacity to govern, and provide shelter and
services for homeless people.
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Enforces federal fair housing
laws and establishing policies that make sure all Americans have equal access to the housing of their
choice.
, Federal Housing Administration: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Improve housing standards and
conditions, provide an adequate home financing system through insurance of mortgage loans, and to
stabilize the mortgage market.
Food and Drug Administration-(FDA): - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Protects and promotes
public health through the regulation and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, cosmetics,
animal foods & feed and veterinary products.
Food and Nutrition Service: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Program increases food security and
reduces hunger in partnership with cooperating organizations by providing children and low-
income people access to food, a healthy diet, and nutrition education in a manner that supports
American agriculture and inspires public confidence.
Food Safety and Inspection Service: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Program enhances public
health and well-being by protecting the public from foodborne illness and ensuring that the nation's
meat, poultry and egg products are safe, wholesome, and correctly packaged.
NC Cooperative Extension: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Partnership between government, land-
grant universities (NC State and NC A&T) and Department of Agriculture to provide educational
programming in areas like: protecting the environment, maintaining viable communities,
developing responsible youth, and developing strong, healthy and safe families.
NC Department of Health and Human Services, Social Services: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔Protect children, strengthen families, and help all North Carolinians to achieve maximum self-
sufficiency. Issue Food Stamps, heating assistance and administer Child Protection Services.
NC Department of Justice, Attorney General's Office: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Protect NC
consumers by fighting unfair business practices like scams and frauds.
NC Dept. of Public Instruction: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Implements the State's public
school laws and State Board of Education's policies governing public education.
NC Division of Child Development and Early Education: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔A division
of the NC Health and Human Services Division that governs, guides and regulates early education,
child cares and assists in meeting needs for children and families.
