NCE NCC Certification Practice Study Guide
Questions with A level solution version 2024/2025
Validity - correct answer the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is
supposed to. Most important property
Reliability - correct answer consistency of measurement
Dependent Variable (DV) - correct answer the research variable that is influenced by
the independent variable, and the impact can be measured
Independent Variable (IV) - correct answer the variable that a researcher actively
manipulates, and if the hypothesis is correct, will cause a change in the dependent
variable
Idiographic - correct answer Approach studies people in depth
Concrete Operations - correct answer Piaget's stage in which children learn such
concepts as conservation and mathematical transformations; about 7 - 11 years of age
Identity Crisis (Erikson) - correct answer a period of inner conflict during which
adolescents worry intensely about who they are
Bowlby's attachment theory - correct answer children are biologically predisposed to
develop attachments with caregivers as a means of increasing the chances of their own
survival
Attachment Theory (Bowlby) - correct answer
Critical Period - correct answer an optimal period shortly after birth when an
organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development
,Daniel Levinson - correct answer psychologist researched adult male developmental
stages
Cognitive Dissonance (Festinger) - correct answer An uncomfortable psychological
conflict between beliefs and behavior. Also the motivational position that the individual
will take to reduce the dissonance.
Eclecticism - correct answer the process of making your own system by borrowing
from two or more other systems
Conversion Disorder (medical) - correct answer A rare somatoform disorder in which a
person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological
basis can be found.
Jacob Moreno "Group Therapy" - correct answer invented psychodrama
First coined the term 'group therapy' in 1931
Spiral test - correct answer items get progressively more difficult
Cyclical Test - correct answer you have several sections which are spiral in nature
Is a reliable test always valid? - correct answer No
Is a valid test always reliable? - correct answer Yes
The Conscious Mind - correct answer Freud's term for what we are presently aware of
(Most important part of his theory)
Carl Jung: Archetypes - correct answer (Mandala, shadow, persona, anima/animus)
, Existential Therapy - correct answer a form of therapy designed to help clients explore
the meaning of existence and face the great questions of life, such as death, freedom,
alienation, and loneliness
Quid pro quo - correct answer something given in exchange or return for something
else
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act - correct answer A civil rights law prohibiting
discrimination against individuals with disabilities by federally assisted programs or
activities
Androgyny - correct answer displaying both traditional masculine and feminine
psychological characteristics
Kolhberg's stages of moral development - correct answer pre-conventional,
conventional, post-conventional
Heinz Dilemma - correct answer Man needs drug to save wife's life. Drug is too
expensive, so man steals it.
Erik Erickson Stages - correct answer Trust versus Mistrust, autonomy versus shame,
initiative versus guilt, industry versus inferiority, identity versus role confusion, intimacy
versus isolation, generativity versus stagnation, ego integrity versus despair.
Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) - correct answer Vygotsky's concept of the
difference between what a child can do alone and what that child can do with the help of
a teacher
Oedipus complex - correct answer according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward
his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
Freud psychosexual stages - correct answer oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage,
latency stage, genital stage
Questions with A level solution version 2024/2025
Validity - correct answer the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is
supposed to. Most important property
Reliability - correct answer consistency of measurement
Dependent Variable (DV) - correct answer the research variable that is influenced by
the independent variable, and the impact can be measured
Independent Variable (IV) - correct answer the variable that a researcher actively
manipulates, and if the hypothesis is correct, will cause a change in the dependent
variable
Idiographic - correct answer Approach studies people in depth
Concrete Operations - correct answer Piaget's stage in which children learn such
concepts as conservation and mathematical transformations; about 7 - 11 years of age
Identity Crisis (Erikson) - correct answer a period of inner conflict during which
adolescents worry intensely about who they are
Bowlby's attachment theory - correct answer children are biologically predisposed to
develop attachments with caregivers as a means of increasing the chances of their own
survival
Attachment Theory (Bowlby) - correct answer
Critical Period - correct answer an optimal period shortly after birth when an
organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development
,Daniel Levinson - correct answer psychologist researched adult male developmental
stages
Cognitive Dissonance (Festinger) - correct answer An uncomfortable psychological
conflict between beliefs and behavior. Also the motivational position that the individual
will take to reduce the dissonance.
Eclecticism - correct answer the process of making your own system by borrowing
from two or more other systems
Conversion Disorder (medical) - correct answer A rare somatoform disorder in which a
person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological
basis can be found.
Jacob Moreno "Group Therapy" - correct answer invented psychodrama
First coined the term 'group therapy' in 1931
Spiral test - correct answer items get progressively more difficult
Cyclical Test - correct answer you have several sections which are spiral in nature
Is a reliable test always valid? - correct answer No
Is a valid test always reliable? - correct answer Yes
The Conscious Mind - correct answer Freud's term for what we are presently aware of
(Most important part of his theory)
Carl Jung: Archetypes - correct answer (Mandala, shadow, persona, anima/animus)
, Existential Therapy - correct answer a form of therapy designed to help clients explore
the meaning of existence and face the great questions of life, such as death, freedom,
alienation, and loneliness
Quid pro quo - correct answer something given in exchange or return for something
else
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act - correct answer A civil rights law prohibiting
discrimination against individuals with disabilities by federally assisted programs or
activities
Androgyny - correct answer displaying both traditional masculine and feminine
psychological characteristics
Kolhberg's stages of moral development - correct answer pre-conventional,
conventional, post-conventional
Heinz Dilemma - correct answer Man needs drug to save wife's life. Drug is too
expensive, so man steals it.
Erik Erickson Stages - correct answer Trust versus Mistrust, autonomy versus shame,
initiative versus guilt, industry versus inferiority, identity versus role confusion, intimacy
versus isolation, generativity versus stagnation, ego integrity versus despair.
Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) - correct answer Vygotsky's concept of the
difference between what a child can do alone and what that child can do with the help of
a teacher
Oedipus complex - correct answer according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward
his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
Freud psychosexual stages - correct answer oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage,
latency stage, genital stage
