CPCE Practice Test Latest Updated
Graded A+
_________ ______________ , a type of learning in which an organism responds in a
particular way to a neutral stimulus that normally does not bring about that type of
response.
a. Operant conditioning
b. Behavioral conditioning
c. Cognitive conditioning
d. Classical conditioning - ANSWER-d. Classical conditioning.
_________ and ____________would say that regardless of culture, humans have an
instinct to fight.
a. Maslow; Rogers
b. Ellis; Halper
c. Freud; Lorenz
d. Glasser; Rogers - ANSWER-c. Freud; Lorenz
__________ therapy emphasizes the two important concepts of birth order and family
constellation.
a. Client-centered
b. Adlerian
c. Narrative
d. Feminist - ANSWER-b. Adlerian
____________refers to the dynamic interaction between collections of individuals for
prevention or remediation of difficulties or for the enhancement of personal
growth/enrichment through the interaction of those who meet together for a commonly
agreed-on purpose.
a. Successful counseling
b. Successful therapy
c. Group work
d. Counsulee cohesion - ANSWER-c. Group work
__________believe that aggression is learned. thus a child who witnesses aggressive
behavior in adults may imitate the aggressive behavior.
a. Instinct theorists
b. Innate aggression theorists
c. Social learning theorists
d. Followers of Erik Erikson - ANSWER-c. Social learning theorists
"Men (used here to mean all people) are disturbed not by things, but by the view which
they take of them." This quote, attributable to Epictctus, most closely describes the
counseling theory developed by
,a. Rogers .
b. Carkhuff .
c. Freud .
d. Ellis . - ANSWER-d. Ellis .
(n) ________ is an orderly, systematically derived set of statements that describe,
explain and predict behavior
a. paradigm
b. hypothesis
c. theory
d. premise - ANSWER-c. theory
17. ___________________, a form of learning in which voluntary response is
strengthened or weakened, depending on its association with positive or negative
consequences.
a. Operant conditioning
b. Behavioral conditioning
c. Cognitive conditioning.
d. Classical conditioning. - ANSWER-a. Operant conditioning
A client comes to a counselor complaining of "being generally unhappy." However, the
client is unable to clarify further the nature of the unhappiness other than through vague
allusions to being not interested in anything. At this point in the process, the counselor
would be best advised to
a. confront the client's inability to clarify the reasons for the unhappiness.
b. explore activities that the client enjoyed in the past.
c. use active-listening skills until the client is better
able to describe the problem.
d. generate and discuss possible reasons for the client's unhappiness. - ANSWER-c.
use active-listening skills until the client is better
able to describe the problem.
A client has concluded a series of counseling sessions with another counselor and has
now come to you for counseling. According to the NBCC ethical standards, you should
A) proceed as you would with any other new client.
B) contact the other counselor and find out if it is appropriate for you to counsel the
client.
C) contact the other counselor to ensure that you do not cover the same topic areas
with the client.
D) advise the client to continue with the other counselor. - ANSWER-CORRECT
ANSWER:
A) proceed as you would with any other new client.
,A client who says, "I feel I cannot really become an administrator
in our agency because I am a woman," is showing an example of
a. gender bias.
b. counselor bias.
c. the trait-and-factor theory.
d. developmental theory and career choice. - ANSWER-a. gender bias.
A colleague of yours invents a new projective test. Seventeen
counselors rated the same client using the measure and came up
with nearly identical assessments. This would indicate
a. high validity.
b. high reliability.
c. excellent norming studies.
d. culture fairness. - ANSWER-b. high reliability
A counseling group member stated, "I feel so much better knowing that many of you
have had similar problems. I guess we're all in the same boat" This member's statement
is an example of a group process phenomenon known as
a. transference.
b. universality.
c. catharsis.
d. intellectualization. - ANSWER-b. universality.
A counseling student reading these slides says, "I couldn't care less about passing the
NCE or licensing exam." This
a. is displacement.
b. is an attempt to reduce dissonance via consistent cognitions.
c. is an attempt to reduce dissonance by denial, thus minimizing tension.
d. is projection. - ANSWER-c. is an attempt to reduce dissonance by denial, thus
minimizing tension.
A counselor completing a report for an insurance company was required to indicate
whether a client had a phobia or an anxiety reaction. The counselor was able to indicate
the correct classification because the counselor knew that the primary distinction
between the two conditions is the
a. age of onset of severe psychological distress.
b. ease with which the symptoms are eliminated.
c. frequency of symptom occurrence.
d. specificity of the fear-causing source. - ANSWER-d. specificity of the fear-causing
source.
A counselor created an achievement test with a reliability coefficient
of .82. The test is shortened since many clients felt it was
too long. The counselor shortened the test but logically assumed
, that the reliability coefficient would now
a. be approximately .88.
b. remain at .82.
c. be at least 10 points higher or lower.
d. be lower than .82. - ANSWER-d. be lower than .82.
A counselor educator is running an experiment to test a new
form of counseling. Unbeknownst to the experimenter one of
the clients in the study is secretly seeing a gestalt therapist. This
experiment
a. is parsimonious.
b. is an example of Occam's Razor.
c. is confounded/flawed.
d. is valid and will most likely help the field of counseling. - ANSWER-c. is
confounded/flawed.
A counselor educator is teaching two separate classes in individual
inventory. In the morning class the counselor educator has
53 students and in the afternoon class she has 177 students. A
statistician would expect that the range of scores on a test would
be
a. greater in the afternoon class than the morning class.
b. smaller in the afternoon class.
c. impossible to speculate about without more data.
d. nearly the same in either class. - ANSWER-a. greater in the afternoon class than the
morning class.
A counselor was hired to develop educational activities that would promote
development of gender-fair (i.e., non sex-role stereotypic) attitudes among older
elementary-school-age children. The counselor decided to develop the activities within
the context of social learning theory. Which of the following activities would be most
appropriate for use by the counselor?
a. having the children view movies that depict males in so-called traditionally feminine
occupations (e.g., nursing) or activities (e.g., ironing) and vice versa
b. providing some reward (e.g., a small candy) to children who make gender-fair
statements during a discussion of "what people do when they grow up"
c. instructing the children how to ask their parents what their parents' beliefs are about
appropriate roles for women and men
d. having the children share what they believe are each of their parent's feelings about
activities they do (e.g., - ANSWER-a. having the children view movies that depict males
in so-called traditionally feminine occupations (e.g., nursing) or activities (e.g., ironing)
and vice versa
A counselor who follows an eclectic approach to counseling primarily bases the choice
of utilized techniques upon
a. the severity of the emotional distress exhibited by the client.
Graded A+
_________ ______________ , a type of learning in which an organism responds in a
particular way to a neutral stimulus that normally does not bring about that type of
response.
a. Operant conditioning
b. Behavioral conditioning
c. Cognitive conditioning
d. Classical conditioning - ANSWER-d. Classical conditioning.
_________ and ____________would say that regardless of culture, humans have an
instinct to fight.
a. Maslow; Rogers
b. Ellis; Halper
c. Freud; Lorenz
d. Glasser; Rogers - ANSWER-c. Freud; Lorenz
__________ therapy emphasizes the two important concepts of birth order and family
constellation.
a. Client-centered
b. Adlerian
c. Narrative
d. Feminist - ANSWER-b. Adlerian
____________refers to the dynamic interaction between collections of individuals for
prevention or remediation of difficulties or for the enhancement of personal
growth/enrichment through the interaction of those who meet together for a commonly
agreed-on purpose.
a. Successful counseling
b. Successful therapy
c. Group work
d. Counsulee cohesion - ANSWER-c. Group work
__________believe that aggression is learned. thus a child who witnesses aggressive
behavior in adults may imitate the aggressive behavior.
a. Instinct theorists
b. Innate aggression theorists
c. Social learning theorists
d. Followers of Erik Erikson - ANSWER-c. Social learning theorists
"Men (used here to mean all people) are disturbed not by things, but by the view which
they take of them." This quote, attributable to Epictctus, most closely describes the
counseling theory developed by
,a. Rogers .
b. Carkhuff .
c. Freud .
d. Ellis . - ANSWER-d. Ellis .
(n) ________ is an orderly, systematically derived set of statements that describe,
explain and predict behavior
a. paradigm
b. hypothesis
c. theory
d. premise - ANSWER-c. theory
17. ___________________, a form of learning in which voluntary response is
strengthened or weakened, depending on its association with positive or negative
consequences.
a. Operant conditioning
b. Behavioral conditioning
c. Cognitive conditioning.
d. Classical conditioning. - ANSWER-a. Operant conditioning
A client comes to a counselor complaining of "being generally unhappy." However, the
client is unable to clarify further the nature of the unhappiness other than through vague
allusions to being not interested in anything. At this point in the process, the counselor
would be best advised to
a. confront the client's inability to clarify the reasons for the unhappiness.
b. explore activities that the client enjoyed in the past.
c. use active-listening skills until the client is better
able to describe the problem.
d. generate and discuss possible reasons for the client's unhappiness. - ANSWER-c.
use active-listening skills until the client is better
able to describe the problem.
A client has concluded a series of counseling sessions with another counselor and has
now come to you for counseling. According to the NBCC ethical standards, you should
A) proceed as you would with any other new client.
B) contact the other counselor and find out if it is appropriate for you to counsel the
client.
C) contact the other counselor to ensure that you do not cover the same topic areas
with the client.
D) advise the client to continue with the other counselor. - ANSWER-CORRECT
ANSWER:
A) proceed as you would with any other new client.
,A client who says, "I feel I cannot really become an administrator
in our agency because I am a woman," is showing an example of
a. gender bias.
b. counselor bias.
c. the trait-and-factor theory.
d. developmental theory and career choice. - ANSWER-a. gender bias.
A colleague of yours invents a new projective test. Seventeen
counselors rated the same client using the measure and came up
with nearly identical assessments. This would indicate
a. high validity.
b. high reliability.
c. excellent norming studies.
d. culture fairness. - ANSWER-b. high reliability
A counseling group member stated, "I feel so much better knowing that many of you
have had similar problems. I guess we're all in the same boat" This member's statement
is an example of a group process phenomenon known as
a. transference.
b. universality.
c. catharsis.
d. intellectualization. - ANSWER-b. universality.
A counseling student reading these slides says, "I couldn't care less about passing the
NCE or licensing exam." This
a. is displacement.
b. is an attempt to reduce dissonance via consistent cognitions.
c. is an attempt to reduce dissonance by denial, thus minimizing tension.
d. is projection. - ANSWER-c. is an attempt to reduce dissonance by denial, thus
minimizing tension.
A counselor completing a report for an insurance company was required to indicate
whether a client had a phobia or an anxiety reaction. The counselor was able to indicate
the correct classification because the counselor knew that the primary distinction
between the two conditions is the
a. age of onset of severe psychological distress.
b. ease with which the symptoms are eliminated.
c. frequency of symptom occurrence.
d. specificity of the fear-causing source. - ANSWER-d. specificity of the fear-causing
source.
A counselor created an achievement test with a reliability coefficient
of .82. The test is shortened since many clients felt it was
too long. The counselor shortened the test but logically assumed
, that the reliability coefficient would now
a. be approximately .88.
b. remain at .82.
c. be at least 10 points higher or lower.
d. be lower than .82. - ANSWER-d. be lower than .82.
A counselor educator is running an experiment to test a new
form of counseling. Unbeknownst to the experimenter one of
the clients in the study is secretly seeing a gestalt therapist. This
experiment
a. is parsimonious.
b. is an example of Occam's Razor.
c. is confounded/flawed.
d. is valid and will most likely help the field of counseling. - ANSWER-c. is
confounded/flawed.
A counselor educator is teaching two separate classes in individual
inventory. In the morning class the counselor educator has
53 students and in the afternoon class she has 177 students. A
statistician would expect that the range of scores on a test would
be
a. greater in the afternoon class than the morning class.
b. smaller in the afternoon class.
c. impossible to speculate about without more data.
d. nearly the same in either class. - ANSWER-a. greater in the afternoon class than the
morning class.
A counselor was hired to develop educational activities that would promote
development of gender-fair (i.e., non sex-role stereotypic) attitudes among older
elementary-school-age children. The counselor decided to develop the activities within
the context of social learning theory. Which of the following activities would be most
appropriate for use by the counselor?
a. having the children view movies that depict males in so-called traditionally feminine
occupations (e.g., nursing) or activities (e.g., ironing) and vice versa
b. providing some reward (e.g., a small candy) to children who make gender-fair
statements during a discussion of "what people do when they grow up"
c. instructing the children how to ask their parents what their parents' beliefs are about
appropriate roles for women and men
d. having the children share what they believe are each of their parent's feelings about
activities they do (e.g., - ANSWER-a. having the children view movies that depict males
in so-called traditionally feminine occupations (e.g., nursing) or activities (e.g., ironing)
and vice versa
A counselor who follows an eclectic approach to counseling primarily bases the choice
of utilized techniques upon
a. the severity of the emotional distress exhibited by the client.
