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Class 2 Flashcards

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Trait

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Characteristic of an individual that can be measured through testing.

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Trait and factor refer to what?

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The assessment characteristics of the person and the job.

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Parsons (1909) proposed that to select an occupation, an individual ideally should have the following information:

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  1. A clear understanding of yourself; your attitudes, abilities, interests, ambitions, and resource limitations; and their causes
  2. A knowledge of the requirements and conditions of success, advantages and disadvantages, compensation, opportunities, and prospects in different lines of work
  3. True reasoning on the relations of these two groups of facts
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O*NET ability profiler

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Verbal, arithmetric, computation, spacial, form perception, clerical perception, motor coordination, finger dexterity, manual dexterity

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Skills confidence

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Self perceived ability to successfully complete a variety of tasks and activities
Rate themselves rather than get tested

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Perceived self-efficacy AKA…

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Skills confidence

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Differential vocational psychology

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Trait and factor
Test and tell
Matching men and jobs
Actuarial counseling
Minnesota point of view
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Self understanding

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Abilities, aptitudes, achievement, skills
Needs & values
Interests
Personality

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Satisfaction

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Does the occupation fulfill the person’s needs?

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Correlates of job satisfaction

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Motivation +
Organizational commitment + (tied to well being)
Life satisfaction +
Mental health+
Job performance +
Absenteeism -
Tardiness and turnover -
Heart disease -
Stress -
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Achievement

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What you’ve done

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Ability

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What you can do now

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Aptitude

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What you could do
Natural ability
Potential

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Skills confidence

Performance accomplishments

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This has the most influence to affect confidence.

Classes, workshops, must insure initial success

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Vicarious learning

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Skill confidence can be affected by learning by observation
“That doesn’t look so hard”
Visit work place, talk with others in occupation.

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Emotional arousal

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Anxiety can affect confidence and performance

Anxiety management

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Social persuasion

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Has less influence on skills confidence

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Approach v avoidance

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Likely to do or avoid based on confidence

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Performance

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Link between past confidence and performance

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Persistence

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Skills confidence can lead to keep trying.

Be a cheerleader

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Values

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Important in decision- making and job satisfaction

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Minnesota importance questionarre (MIQ)

Achievement

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Encourages accomplishment
Ability utilization
Achievement

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MIQ recognition

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Provides status and prestige 
Advancement
Recognition
Authority
Social status
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MIQ relationships

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Harmony and service with others
Co-workers
Moral values
Social service

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MIQ support
Predictable Company policies and practices Supervision and human relations Supervision technical
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MIQ independence
Stimulates initiative Creativity Responsibly Autonomy
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Interest | Inter-est (to be between)
``` Positive emotional experience Focus attention Motivational Adaptive We develop skills around our interests ```
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Assessing interests
Manifested Expressed Tested Inventoried
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Manifest interests
Revealing Behavioral: what do you do? Reflection on life
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Manifest interest questions
What courses did you like best? Why? What type of work do you like? What aspects of work have been most satisfying for you? How do you spend your leisure time? Do you have special hobbies that interest you? Why?
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Expressed interests
What do you like? What job do you want? Occupational daydreams? What occupations are you considering at this time?
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Clear cut answer for expressed interests
Make it more likely that client may pursue the career desired
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Tested interests
Correlation with job interests What courses did you do the best in? Why? What courses did you struggle with in school? Why?
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Inventoried vocational interests
Survey material | Patterns of likes, dislikes, and indifferences regarding career-relevant activities and occupations
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Typical item content of vocational interest inventories
``` Occupations School subjects Activities (better for younger ppl) Types of people Like/dislike/indifference ```
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Typical vocational interest inventory format
Endorsement item format most common | Like/indifferent/dislike activities
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Strong interest inventory (SII)
``` 291 items General occupational themes ( 6 scales) Basic interest scales (30 scales) Occupational scales (122 scales) Personal style scales (5 scales) ```
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Homogenous scales (SII)
general occupational themes (GOT) | Basic interest
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Criterion keyed scales | SII
Occupational and personal style
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Administration
``` Address any myths about assessment Results from interest inventories show how their interests compare to those in a variety of occupations Consider ONLY interests in responding Mark first response that comes to mind Exploration not definitive ```
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Preparing to interpret the SII (strong interest inventory)
Validity check | Summary of response style
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Validity check
``` Total # of responses Typicality index (respond similarly to items) ```
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Summary of response style
Explore extreme responsibilities
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Extreme responses
Below 17 tells us atypical response Some may say they like everything to not rule anything out More dislikes may be hard to place
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Confront atypical responses
Ask what about activities does the client like | Where the like originates?
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General Occupational Themes
RIASEC | Realistic, investigative, social, enterprising, conventional
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Realistic
Building and repairing
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Investigative
Researching and analyzing
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Artistic
Creating art, music, drama
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Social
Teaching and helping
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Enterprising
Managing and persuading
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Conventional
Organizing and processing
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Music interest scales (BIS)
``` Mechanical activities Medical science Writing Social service Sales Office services ```
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Occupational scales
``` Similarity (dissimilarity) to Occupations Scores are specific to male and females 40+ shares likes and dislikes 30-39 shares some likes and dislikes 29 or below few shared dislikes Identify patterns of interest ```
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Criterion keying
Item content unimportant A-theoretical “dustbowl empiricism” Compares occupational groups to people in general How ppl respond to items Different occupational groups respond to items differently
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Criterion group
Employed for 3+ years At least 25 years old Satisfied with occupation
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Response distributions
What does your response compare to responses of different occupational holders Share interests but answers are NOT definitive
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Personal style scales look for
``` Additional info to narrow the field Which occupational interests reflect other professions Higher scores (clear) = need this type of job to feel satisfied ```
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Personal style scales
Work style, learning, leadership, risk taking, team orientation
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“Flat” interest profiles
``` Little life or work experience General indecisiveness Narrowly defined or unique interests Disinterest in work Took the inventory grudgingly. ```

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