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The Sensorimotor period is part of whose developmental stage theory? - Answer✔Piaget
Presenting stimuli in different sequences to reduce "order of presentation" influences in an
experiment is called: - Answer✔Counterbalancing
The Eskimo word "piblokto" refers to "arctic hysteria," characterized by uncontrolled screaming
and crying that is often accopanied by running through the snow naked. This is an example of
what kind of disorder? - Answer✔Culture-specific
Intervention performed with three or more clients at a time is known as: - Answer✔Group
therapy
Who is known for person-centered counseling? - Answer✔Carl Rogers
Research that compares findings across many studies is known as: - Answer✔Meta-analysis
If a therapist has a good ability to perceive and appreciate his/her client's subjective reality (i.e.,
emotions and cognitions), the therapist is said to have: - Answer✔Empathic understanding
Changes in human growth and development which are qualitative are: - Answer✔Changes in
structure or organization
Jim's new therapist believes in the uniqueness of each individual. She talks about the
importance of social influences on a person. She tells Jim that everybody has a sense of
inferiority, and as a result is always striving to attain superiority. Her counseling goals are to
help Jim understand his lifestyle, or unified life plan, which gives meaning to his experiences,
and to help him identify social and community interests most appropriate for him. She also
wants to explain Jim to himself. The techniques she uses in her therapy include life histories,
homework assignments, and paradoxical intentions. Describe the therapeutic modality that
best describes this therapist's approach. - Answer✔Individual Psychology
What is NOT a measure of central tendency? - Answer✔Norm
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(Median, Mean, and Mode are).
What is NOT a characteristic of test reliability? - Answer✔Predictive
(Stability, Equivalence, and Internal consistency are).
According to Ginzberg, Ginsburg, Axlerad, and Herma's developmental theory, occupational
choice passes through three periods. Which is NOT one of the main periods they identified? -
Answer✔Transition.
(Fantasy, Tentative, and Realistic are).
Career counseling based on Bandura's social cognitive theory emphasizes all these concepts
EXCEPT: - Answer✔Positive uncertainty.
(Personal agency, Self-efficacy, and Vicarious learning are).
Managing a counseling program requires skills in these areas? - Answer✔Program design and
development
Marketing and public relations
Budgeting.
What is NOT considered underlying principles of ethical decision making? - Answer✔Informed
consent and confidentiality
(Beneficence and nonmaleficience, Justice, fidelity, autonomy and self-determination are).
Pat's therapist tells her that "self-talk" and "crooked thinking" cause emotional disturbances.
He believes we all have the potential to think rationally. He uses techniques like role-playing
and imagery to help Pat work through some of her issues. He also follows an A-B-C-D-E system.
Pat's therapist believes that we are not influenced by the events we experience, but by our
interpretation of them. Pat's therapist subscribes to which therapeutic approach? -
Answer✔Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (Ellis)
How does consultation differ from counseling? - Answer✔It is a voluntary, work-related
process.
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What is NOT a common role for a member of a therapy group? - Answer✔Autocratic
(Facilitative, Maintenance, and Blocking are).
Jenny recently lost her job and fell behind in her mortgage payments, so now she is facing
foreclosure. She is seeing a counselor to help her cope with the stress in her life. She feels like a
failure and wants her self-esteem to be higher, and she feels that she is not living up to her
potential. Her counselor tells her that her first priorities are to fulfill her more basic needs, such
as applying for food stamps so she will not go hungry and getting help with her housing
situation so that she meets her needs for safety and physical security. The counselor tells her
that once she has addressed these basic needs, she can then address her higher-order needs
for self-esteem and fulfilling her potential as a person. Which theorist has most influenced
Jenny's counselor? - Answer✔Abraham Maslow
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross identified five stages that dying people experience. Which of these
accurately identifies these five stages? - Answer✔Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression,
Acceptance
What is meant by the term "regression toward the mean?" - Answer✔It means that most
scoring very high or low on a pretest will score nearer the mean on a posttest.
Which neo-Freudian theorist most strongly believed that behavior can be understood best in
terms of social interactions and interpersonal relationships? - Answer✔Harry Stack Sullivan
Four broad stages of development in the first three years of life are identified in Object
Relations Theory. What is the correct chronological order of these four stages? -
Answer✔Fusion with mother; Symbiosis with mother; Separation/Individuation; Constancy of
self and object.
What represents the beliefs and practices of Carl Rogers? - Answer✔The focus of counseling is
based on the client's phenomenological world and feelings.
What is the difference between classical conditioning and operant conditioning? -
Answer✔Classical conditioning evokes involuntary responses; operant evokes voluntary
responses.
What is the correct chronological order of the five stages of development identified by Sigmund
Freud? - Answer✔Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital
Which demographic is projected about the U.S. population by the year 2050? - Answer✔All of
the minority groups combined will outnumber the Non-Hispanic White population.
People born after the year 1976 in America are commonly referred to as: - Answer✔Millennials
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In Donald Super's developmental approach to careers, which vocational developmental task did
Super associate with the period of ages 18 to 21? - Answer✔Specification
What are John Holland's six personality types? - Answer✔Realistic and Investigative, Artistic
and Social, Enterprising and Conventional
Which does use John Hollands's typology for determining a person's career type? -
Answer✔The Vocational Preference Inventory, The Self-Directed Search, and The Career
Assessment Inventory.
Counselors should be familiar with the distribution of test scores within the normal, or bell
curve. ie.: - Answer✔68% makes up one standard deviation from the mean, 13.5% makes up
two, and 4% makes up three.
What is true about the correlation coefficient? - Answer✔A correlation coefficient shows the
relationship between two sets of numbers.
What is true of quantitative research? - Answer✔This kind of research tends to investigate with
a goal of finding causal relationships.
What is true of qualitative research? - Answer✔This kind of research is descriptive,
correlational, and historical.
What tools/methods are characteristic of experimental research design? - Answer✔Control
groups and randomization
Who established the very first psychological laboratory in history? - Answer✔Wilhelm Wundt
In the landmark 1976 Tarasoff case, the California court ruled that failure to warn an intended
victim is professionally irresponsible. Out of what event did this ruling come? - Answer✔A client
of a university psychologist murdered Tatiana Tarasoff and her family sued.
Developmental changes do not occur in____________but does occur in Physical, cognitive, and
pyschosocial development. - Answer✔Sociocultural development
An infant first sucks on a nipple to nurse. Then the infant sucks on other things--a toy, Daddy's
finger, etc. Later this infant discovers other things to do with objects beyond sucking on them
such as grasping them, shaking them, and otherwise manipulating them, for example. These
two behaviors were labeled by Jean Piaget with what terms, in order of their occurrence? -
Answer✔Assimilation and accommodation
People are said to be products of five different cultures. Two are inevitable culture sources (a
culture of human biology and a culture of ecology, which refers to the climates in which people
live). What are the other three? - Answer✔Racio-ethnic
Regional
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NCE and CPCE Study Exam Questions And
Answers |Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass.
The Sensorimotor period is part of whose developmental stage theory? - Answer✔Piaget
Presenting stimuli in different sequences to reduce "order of presentation" influences in an
experiment is called: - Answer✔Counterbalancing
The Eskimo word "piblokto" refers to "arctic hysteria," characterized by uncontrolled screaming
and crying that is often accopanied by running through the snow naked. This is an example of
what kind of disorder? - Answer✔Culture-specific
Intervention performed with three or more clients at a time is known as: - Answer✔Group
therapy
Who is known for person-centered counseling? - Answer✔Carl Rogers
Research that compares findings across many studies is known as: - Answer✔Meta-analysis
If a therapist has a good ability to perceive and appreciate his/her client's subjective reality (i.e.,
emotions and cognitions), the therapist is said to have: - Answer✔Empathic understanding
Changes in human growth and development which are qualitative are: - Answer✔Changes in
structure or organization
Jim's new therapist believes in the uniqueness of each individual. She talks about the
importance of social influences on a person. She tells Jim that everybody has a sense of
inferiority, and as a result is always striving to attain superiority. Her counseling goals are to
help Jim understand his lifestyle, or unified life plan, which gives meaning to his experiences,
and to help him identify social and community interests most appropriate for him. She also
wants to explain Jim to himself. The techniques she uses in her therapy include life histories,
homework assignments, and paradoxical intentions. Describe the therapeutic modality that
best describes this therapist's approach. - Answer✔Individual Psychology
What is NOT a measure of central tendency? - Answer✔Norm
1
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(Median, Mean, and Mode are).
What is NOT a characteristic of test reliability? - Answer✔Predictive
(Stability, Equivalence, and Internal consistency are).
According to Ginzberg, Ginsburg, Axlerad, and Herma's developmental theory, occupational
choice passes through three periods. Which is NOT one of the main periods they identified? -
Answer✔Transition.
(Fantasy, Tentative, and Realistic are).
Career counseling based on Bandura's social cognitive theory emphasizes all these concepts
EXCEPT: - Answer✔Positive uncertainty.
(Personal agency, Self-efficacy, and Vicarious learning are).
Managing a counseling program requires skills in these areas? - Answer✔Program design and
development
Marketing and public relations
Budgeting.
What is NOT considered underlying principles of ethical decision making? - Answer✔Informed
consent and confidentiality
(Beneficence and nonmaleficience, Justice, fidelity, autonomy and self-determination are).
Pat's therapist tells her that "self-talk" and "crooked thinking" cause emotional disturbances.
He believes we all have the potential to think rationally. He uses techniques like role-playing
and imagery to help Pat work through some of her issues. He also follows an A-B-C-D-E system.
Pat's therapist believes that we are not influenced by the events we experience, but by our
interpretation of them. Pat's therapist subscribes to which therapeutic approach? -
Answer✔Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (Ellis)
How does consultation differ from counseling? - Answer✔It is a voluntary, work-related
process.
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What is NOT a common role for a member of a therapy group? - Answer✔Autocratic
(Facilitative, Maintenance, and Blocking are).
Jenny recently lost her job and fell behind in her mortgage payments, so now she is facing
foreclosure. She is seeing a counselor to help her cope with the stress in her life. She feels like a
failure and wants her self-esteem to be higher, and she feels that she is not living up to her
potential. Her counselor tells her that her first priorities are to fulfill her more basic needs, such
as applying for food stamps so she will not go hungry and getting help with her housing
situation so that she meets her needs for safety and physical security. The counselor tells her
that once she has addressed these basic needs, she can then address her higher-order needs
for self-esteem and fulfilling her potential as a person. Which theorist has most influenced
Jenny's counselor? - Answer✔Abraham Maslow
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross identified five stages that dying people experience. Which of these
accurately identifies these five stages? - Answer✔Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression,
Acceptance
What is meant by the term "regression toward the mean?" - Answer✔It means that most
scoring very high or low on a pretest will score nearer the mean on a posttest.
Which neo-Freudian theorist most strongly believed that behavior can be understood best in
terms of social interactions and interpersonal relationships? - Answer✔Harry Stack Sullivan
Four broad stages of development in the first three years of life are identified in Object
Relations Theory. What is the correct chronological order of these four stages? -
Answer✔Fusion with mother; Symbiosis with mother; Separation/Individuation; Constancy of
self and object.
What represents the beliefs and practices of Carl Rogers? - Answer✔The focus of counseling is
based on the client's phenomenological world and feelings.
What is the difference between classical conditioning and operant conditioning? -
Answer✔Classical conditioning evokes involuntary responses; operant evokes voluntary
responses.
What is the correct chronological order of the five stages of development identified by Sigmund
Freud? - Answer✔Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital
Which demographic is projected about the U.S. population by the year 2050? - Answer✔All of
the minority groups combined will outnumber the Non-Hispanic White population.
People born after the year 1976 in America are commonly referred to as: - Answer✔Millennials
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In Donald Super's developmental approach to careers, which vocational developmental task did
Super associate with the period of ages 18 to 21? - Answer✔Specification
What are John Holland's six personality types? - Answer✔Realistic and Investigative, Artistic
and Social, Enterprising and Conventional
Which does use John Hollands's typology for determining a person's career type? -
Answer✔The Vocational Preference Inventory, The Self-Directed Search, and The Career
Assessment Inventory.
Counselors should be familiar with the distribution of test scores within the normal, or bell
curve. ie.: - Answer✔68% makes up one standard deviation from the mean, 13.5% makes up
two, and 4% makes up three.
What is true about the correlation coefficient? - Answer✔A correlation coefficient shows the
relationship between two sets of numbers.
What is true of quantitative research? - Answer✔This kind of research tends to investigate with
a goal of finding causal relationships.
What is true of qualitative research? - Answer✔This kind of research is descriptive,
correlational, and historical.
What tools/methods are characteristic of experimental research design? - Answer✔Control
groups and randomization
Who established the very first psychological laboratory in history? - Answer✔Wilhelm Wundt
In the landmark 1976 Tarasoff case, the California court ruled that failure to warn an intended
victim is professionally irresponsible. Out of what event did this ruling come? - Answer✔A client
of a university psychologist murdered Tatiana Tarasoff and her family sued.
Developmental changes do not occur in____________but does occur in Physical, cognitive, and
pyschosocial development. - Answer✔Sociocultural development
An infant first sucks on a nipple to nurse. Then the infant sucks on other things--a toy, Daddy's
finger, etc. Later this infant discovers other things to do with objects beyond sucking on them
such as grasping them, shaking them, and otherwise manipulating them, for example. These
two behaviors were labeled by Jean Piaget with what terms, in order of their occurrence? -
Answer✔Assimilation and accommodation
People are said to be products of five different cultures. Two are inevitable culture sources (a
culture of human biology and a culture of ecology, which refers to the climates in which people
live). What are the other three? - Answer✔Racio-ethnic
Regional
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