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CECE Practice Exam (2022) Flashcards

1
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“State laws can govern title usage and practice, however they do not govern”

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Accreditation

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APA is to psychologist as ACA is to

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Counselor

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“According to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 (also know as the Buckkley Amendment) _____

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A & B (a parent can see his or her daughters middle school record AND an 18-year old college student can view his or her own educational record)

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“ A client asks you for classical psychoanalysis yet you have no training whatsoever in this area. If you agree to analyze the client, you are___”

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Unethical as this is misrepresentation

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Insurance payments are also called

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Third-party payments

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The major trend that impacted the counseling movement in the 1980s___

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Included an emphasis of professionalism, certification, and licensing

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The term contextualism implies that___

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Behaviors must be assessed in context of the culture in which the behavior occurs

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A wealth of research demonstrates that

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In most instances, clients prefer a counselor of the same race and a similar cultural background

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Ethnocentrism

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Uses one’s One cultural yardstick to measure all others

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Most countries have an official language, a stated viewpoint, and a central government. This is reflected mainly by

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National culture

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11
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Social exchange theory postulates that

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A relationship will endure if the rewards are greater than the cost

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“ according to cognitive dissonance theory by Leon Festinger, a man who buys a $20,000 platinum watch would most likely___”

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Read test reports after the purchase to justify his behavior

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13
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Sex role stereotyping would imply that

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Choices A and B (a counselor would only consider a traditional feminine career for his female client. AND a male counselor would write a female clients emotional status differently than he would a male clients)

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“Ju Wan moved to America from China in 1993. Immediately after moving to America, Ju changed his name to John in order to better fit in with the dominant culture. This action represents ____ type of acculturation”

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Assimilation

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The only psycho analyst who created a developmental theory which encompasses the entire lifespan was

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Erik Erikson

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“In Kohlberg‘s first or preconventional level, the individual‘s mortal behavior is guided by___”

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Consequences

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17
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John Bowlby‘s name is most closely associated with

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Bonding and attachment

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Freud postulates psychosexual stages

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Oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital

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In the famous experiment by Harlow, frighten monkeys raised to be a cloth and wire mothers____

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Ran over and clung to the cloth and wire surrogate mothers

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A child masters conversation in the Piagetian stage known as

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Concrete operations

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Theorist who believe that development merely consist of quanatative changes are referred as

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Empiricists

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22
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The zone of proximal development

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What is pioneered by Lev Vygotsky

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23
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This person is considered the father of career counseling

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Parsons

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24
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Recent trends in career counseling include___

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all of the above (dual-wage earning household‘s, technology, adults changing careers later in life)

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Super’s theory includes

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The life-career rainbow

26
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The self-directed search (SDS)

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All of the above (based on the work of Holland, self administered, self-scored and self-interpreted)

27
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Linda Gottfredson is most known for her theory of circumscription, compromise, and self creation. According to this theory, closing the gap between the ideal and the reality of the world of work is an example of___

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Compromise

28
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Facilitating career interventions that honored the unique cultural lens of the client is considered in an ____ perspective

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Emic

29
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When career counselors speak of the OOH, they are referring to___

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Occupational outlook handbook

30
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When a client projects feelings towards the therapist that he or she originally had toward a significant other, it is called

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Transference

31
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Adler emphasized that people wish to belong. This is known as

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Social connectedness

32
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Existential therapy has been criticized for

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Being too vague regarding techniques and procedures

33
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Rogers felt that _______for client changed to occur

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Three conditions are necessary

34
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Negative Reinforcement often requires the introduction of an aversive (negative) stimulus. It _____

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Is not the same as punishment

35
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William Glasser is to reality therapy as Albert Ellis is to

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Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)

36
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Reflecting skills communicate

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All of the above (a desire to explore deeper feelings, nonjudgmental understanding, a condensed version of thought and feeling)

37
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Diagnosis is useful because it

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B & C (simplifies and organizes information gathered and assist in the selection of interventions)

38
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Group therapy initial flourished in the United States due to

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Shortage of individual therapist during WWII

39
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Group content refers to material discussed in a group setting. Group process refers to ____.

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The manner in which discussions and transactions occur

40
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A counselor suggest that her client join an assertiveness training group. Most assertiveness training groups are

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Behavioristic and highly structured

41
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A group with more than one leader is said to utilize coleaders. Coleadership is desirable because_____

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All of the above (the group can go on even if one leader is absent, two leaders can focus on group dynamics better than one leader, leaders can process their feelings between sessions)

42
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In a healthy group, members

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Are flexible and can change roles 

43
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A major advantage of group work versus individual work is that

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Members learn how to give help in addition to receiving it in group sessions generally cost less (i.e, they are more economical) than individual counseling sessions

44
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Which of these factor is not delineated by Yalom as a curative factor

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Manifest dream content in insight into the unconscious mind

45
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Most experts would agree that an effective adult counseling group has _____ members

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5 or 6-8

46
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The best intelligence test for kindergartners would be the ____

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WPPSI-III

47
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The mean on the Wechsler and Binet is ___ And the standard deviation is ___

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100;20

48
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In a projective test, the client is shown___

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Neutral stimuli

49
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____ Would be an informal methods of appraisal

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Checklist

50
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A reliability coefficient of 1.00 indicates

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A perfect score which has no error

51
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Construct validity refers to the extent that a test measures an abstract trait or psychological notion. An example would be

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Ego strengths

52
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The MMPI-2 is

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A standardized personality test

53
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One problem that interest inventories is that the person often tries to answer the question in a socially acceptable manner. Psychometricians call this response style phenomenon___

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Social desirability (the right way to fill in society)

54
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The most critical factors in test selection are ____

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Validity and reliability

55
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Which method of reliability testing would be useful with an essay test but not with the test of algebra problems?

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Inter-rater/inter-observer 

56
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Experimental is to cause and effect as correlation is to ___

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Degree of relationship

57
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P=.05 really means that

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There’s only a 5% chance that the difference between the control and the experimental group is due to chance factors

58
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Formative evaluation research

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Is concerned with the planning, development, and implementation of a program

59
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A “scale” would be best defined as

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A number of items that are combined to form a composite score on a variable

60
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A skewed data distribution is

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Asymmetrical

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