NCE REVIEW PRACTICE TEST.
Father of Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER Albert Adler
Concrete Operational Stage - CORRECT ANSWER Children learn how various actions or operations can
affect or transform concrete objects
Sensorimotor Stage - CORRECT ANSWER Individuals experience the world only through their senses.
(Birth and lasts thru infancy).
REBT - CORRECT ANSWER Therapy that exposes and confronts the dysfunctional thoughts of the clients.
Victor Frankl - CORRECT ANSWER Father of Logotherapy, existential form of treatment focuses on
healing through meaning.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - CORRECT ANSWER Psychotherapy aimed at correcting negative
thinking and improving interpersonal relationships
Freud - CORRECT ANSWER Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939)
Kohlberg's stages of moral development - CORRECT ANSWER 3 Stages: Preconventional Morality,
Conventional Morality, Postconventional Morality
Post Conventional Morality - CORRECT ANSWER Moral choices are made according to personal
standards and reason.
Conventional Morality - CORRECT ANSWER 2nd Level of Kohlberg's stages of moral development. The
child's behavior is governed by conforming to society's norms of behavior.
Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER Analyze sensations, images, and feelings into their most basic
elements
, Preconventional Morality - CORRECT ANSWER 1st Level of Kohlberg's stages of Moral Development. The
child's behavior is governed by the consequences of the behavior.
Acculturation - CORRECT ANSWER The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under
the influence of another.
Performance Test - CORRECT ANSWER A way of testing a product to evaluate its capabilities.
Coefficient - CORRECT ANSWER A number multiplied by a variable in an algebraic expression.
Power tests - CORRECT ANSWER Items of varying difficulty with adequate test period.
Reliability - CORRECT ANSWER Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over
repeated testings
Speed tests - CORRECT ANSWER Generally consist of a large number of questions asked in a short
amount of time.
Integrity vs. Despair - CORRECT ANSWER Late Adulthood 65 yrs. to death
Convergent Validity - CORRECT ANSWER Scores on the measure are related to other measures of the
same construct
Cross-sectional study - CORRECT ANSWER Technique that compares individuals from different age
groups at one time.
Face Validity - CORRECT ANSWER Establishes how well the assessment appears to measure it purpose.
Conditioned Response (CR) - CORRECT ANSWER In Classical Conditioning, the learned response to a
previously neutral conditioned stimulus (CS)
Father of Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER Albert Adler
Concrete Operational Stage - CORRECT ANSWER Children learn how various actions or operations can
affect or transform concrete objects
Sensorimotor Stage - CORRECT ANSWER Individuals experience the world only through their senses.
(Birth and lasts thru infancy).
REBT - CORRECT ANSWER Therapy that exposes and confronts the dysfunctional thoughts of the clients.
Victor Frankl - CORRECT ANSWER Father of Logotherapy, existential form of treatment focuses on
healing through meaning.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - CORRECT ANSWER Psychotherapy aimed at correcting negative
thinking and improving interpersonal relationships
Freud - CORRECT ANSWER Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939)
Kohlberg's stages of moral development - CORRECT ANSWER 3 Stages: Preconventional Morality,
Conventional Morality, Postconventional Morality
Post Conventional Morality - CORRECT ANSWER Moral choices are made according to personal
standards and reason.
Conventional Morality - CORRECT ANSWER 2nd Level of Kohlberg's stages of moral development. The
child's behavior is governed by conforming to society's norms of behavior.
Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER Analyze sensations, images, and feelings into their most basic
elements
, Preconventional Morality - CORRECT ANSWER 1st Level of Kohlberg's stages of Moral Development. The
child's behavior is governed by the consequences of the behavior.
Acculturation - CORRECT ANSWER The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under
the influence of another.
Performance Test - CORRECT ANSWER A way of testing a product to evaluate its capabilities.
Coefficient - CORRECT ANSWER A number multiplied by a variable in an algebraic expression.
Power tests - CORRECT ANSWER Items of varying difficulty with adequate test period.
Reliability - CORRECT ANSWER Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over
repeated testings
Speed tests - CORRECT ANSWER Generally consist of a large number of questions asked in a short
amount of time.
Integrity vs. Despair - CORRECT ANSWER Late Adulthood 65 yrs. to death
Convergent Validity - CORRECT ANSWER Scores on the measure are related to other measures of the
same construct
Cross-sectional study - CORRECT ANSWER Technique that compares individuals from different age
groups at one time.
Face Validity - CORRECT ANSWER Establishes how well the assessment appears to measure it purpose.
Conditioned Response (CR) - CORRECT ANSWER In Classical Conditioning, the learned response to a
previously neutral conditioned stimulus (CS)
