NCE Study Questions
1. Jumping to conclusions example: Do you usually or always expect the worstto happen?
2. Adolescence can be defined as: A period from the onset of puberty or sexual maturity to
adulthood.
3. BASIC ID: Behavior, Affect, Sensation, Imagery, Cognition, Interpersonal rela- tionship,
Drugs and biological functions.
4. Free Association: Psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the
person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind or no matter how trivial.
5. Socioeconomic Status (SES): A measure of social class based on income andeducation.
6. Reality Therapy: William Glasser, Treatment that emphasizes personal respon- sibility for
actions and their consequences.
7. WDEP: Wants, doing, evaluation, planning and commitment.
8. EMDR - Francine Shapiro: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.
9. Social Learning Theory: Theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating
and by being rewarded or punished.
10. Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA): An intensive treatment for autism, based on operant
conditioning.
11. Albert Ellis: Developed "Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy" (REBT)
12. B.F. Skinner (1904-1990): Behaviorism, American psychologist whose brand of
behaviorism focused on the role of responses in learning.
13. Jungian Theory: Believed all humans shared a vast collective unconscious.
14. Self: Individual identity of a person as perceived by that same person
15. Self Efficacy: One's belief in one's ability to succeed in specific situations oraccomplish a
task.
16. Reciprocal Determinism: Interacting influences between personality and envi-ronmental
factors. Though our environment affects us, we also affect our environ- ment.
17. Symbolic Representation: Using a mental thought or activity as a substitute foran actual
object.
18. Observational Learning: Learning by observing others; also called social learn-ing.
19. Defense Mechanisms: The ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety byunconsciously
distorting reality.
20. Schizophrenia symptoms: Delusions, hallucinations, disorganised speech,negative
behaviour
21. Narcissistic Personality Disorder: A personality disturbance characterized byan
, exaggerated sense of self-importance.
22. Reactive Attachment Disorder: A pattern of inhibited, withdrawn behaviortoward adult
caregivers.
23. Borderline Personality Disorder: Instability in interpersonal relationships,
self-image, and emotion. Marked by extreme instability in mood, identity, and impulsecontrol.
24. Qualitative Research: Research that relies on what is seen in field or natural-istic settings
more than on statistical data.
25. Father of Psychology: Albert Adler
26. Concrete Operational Stage: Children learn how various actions or operationscan affect
or transform concrete objects
27. Sensorimotor Stage: Individuals experience the world only through their senses.(Birth and
lasts thru infancy).
28. REBT: Therapy that exposes and confronts the dysfunctional thoughts of theclients.
29. Victor Frankl: Father of Logotherapy, existential form of treatment focuses onhealing
through meaning.
30. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Psychotherapy aimed at correcting neg-ative
thinking and improving interpersonal relationships
31. Freud: Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939)
32. Kohlberg's stages of moral development: 3 Stages: Preconventional Morality,
Conventional Morality, Postconventional Morality
33. Post Conventional Morality: Moral choices are made according to personalstandards and
reason.
34. Conventional Morality: 2nd Level of Kohlberg's stages of moral development.The child's
behavior is governed by conforming to society's norms of behavior.
35. Structuralism: Analyze sensations, images, and feelings into their most basicelements
36. Preconventional Morality: 1st Level of Kohlberg's stages of Moral Develop-ment. The
child's behavior is governed by the consequences of the behavior.
37. Acculturation: The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one groupunder the
influence of another.
38. Performance Test: A way of testing a product to evaluate its capabilities.
39. Coefficient: A number multiplied by a variable in an algebraic expression.
40. Power tests: Items of varying difficulty with adequate test period.
41. Reliability: Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individualover
repeated testings
42. Speed tests: Generally consist of a large number of questions asked in a shortamount of
1. Jumping to conclusions example: Do you usually or always expect the worstto happen?
2. Adolescence can be defined as: A period from the onset of puberty or sexual maturity to
adulthood.
3. BASIC ID: Behavior, Affect, Sensation, Imagery, Cognition, Interpersonal rela- tionship,
Drugs and biological functions.
4. Free Association: Psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the
person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind or no matter how trivial.
5. Socioeconomic Status (SES): A measure of social class based on income andeducation.
6. Reality Therapy: William Glasser, Treatment that emphasizes personal respon- sibility for
actions and their consequences.
7. WDEP: Wants, doing, evaluation, planning and commitment.
8. EMDR - Francine Shapiro: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.
9. Social Learning Theory: Theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating
and by being rewarded or punished.
10. Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA): An intensive treatment for autism, based on operant
conditioning.
11. Albert Ellis: Developed "Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy" (REBT)
12. B.F. Skinner (1904-1990): Behaviorism, American psychologist whose brand of
behaviorism focused on the role of responses in learning.
13. Jungian Theory: Believed all humans shared a vast collective unconscious.
14. Self: Individual identity of a person as perceived by that same person
15. Self Efficacy: One's belief in one's ability to succeed in specific situations oraccomplish a
task.
16. Reciprocal Determinism: Interacting influences between personality and envi-ronmental
factors. Though our environment affects us, we also affect our environ- ment.
17. Symbolic Representation: Using a mental thought or activity as a substitute foran actual
object.
18. Observational Learning: Learning by observing others; also called social learn-ing.
19. Defense Mechanisms: The ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety byunconsciously
distorting reality.
20. Schizophrenia symptoms: Delusions, hallucinations, disorganised speech,negative
behaviour
21. Narcissistic Personality Disorder: A personality disturbance characterized byan
, exaggerated sense of self-importance.
22. Reactive Attachment Disorder: A pattern of inhibited, withdrawn behaviortoward adult
caregivers.
23. Borderline Personality Disorder: Instability in interpersonal relationships,
self-image, and emotion. Marked by extreme instability in mood, identity, and impulsecontrol.
24. Qualitative Research: Research that relies on what is seen in field or natural-istic settings
more than on statistical data.
25. Father of Psychology: Albert Adler
26. Concrete Operational Stage: Children learn how various actions or operationscan affect
or transform concrete objects
27. Sensorimotor Stage: Individuals experience the world only through their senses.(Birth and
lasts thru infancy).
28. REBT: Therapy that exposes and confronts the dysfunctional thoughts of theclients.
29. Victor Frankl: Father of Logotherapy, existential form of treatment focuses onhealing
through meaning.
30. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Psychotherapy aimed at correcting neg-ative
thinking and improving interpersonal relationships
31. Freud: Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939)
32. Kohlberg's stages of moral development: 3 Stages: Preconventional Morality,
Conventional Morality, Postconventional Morality
33. Post Conventional Morality: Moral choices are made according to personalstandards and
reason.
34. Conventional Morality: 2nd Level of Kohlberg's stages of moral development.The child's
behavior is governed by conforming to society's norms of behavior.
35. Structuralism: Analyze sensations, images, and feelings into their most basicelements
36. Preconventional Morality: 1st Level of Kohlberg's stages of Moral Develop-ment. The
child's behavior is governed by the consequences of the behavior.
37. Acculturation: The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one groupunder the
influence of another.
38. Performance Test: A way of testing a product to evaluate its capabilities.
39. Coefficient: A number multiplied by a variable in an algebraic expression.
40. Power tests: Items of varying difficulty with adequate test period.
41. Reliability: Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individualover
repeated testings
42. Speed tests: Generally consist of a large number of questions asked in a shortamount of
