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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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16
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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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18
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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

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Predictable
Company policies and practices
Supervision and human relations
Supervision technical

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MIQ independence

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Stimulates initiative
Creativity
Responsibly
Autonomy

27
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Interest

Inter-est (to be between)

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Positive emotional experience
Focus attention
Motivational 
Adaptive
We develop skills around our interests
28
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Assessing interests

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Manifested
Expressed
Tested
Inventoried

29
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Manifest interests

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Revealing
Behavioral: what do you do?
Reflection on life

30
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Manifest interest questions

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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

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What do you like?
What job do you want?
Occupational daydreams?
What occupations are you considering at this time?

32
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Clear cut answer for expressed interests

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Make it more likely that client may pursue the career desired

33
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Tested interests

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Correlation with job interests
What courses did you do the best in? Why?
What courses did you struggle with in school? Why?

34
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Inventoried vocational interests

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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

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Occupations
School subjects
Activities (better for younger ppl)
Types of people
Like/dislike/indifference
36
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Typical vocational interest inventory format

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Endorsement item format most common

Like/indifferent/dislike activities

37
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Strong interest inventory (SII)

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291 items
General occupational themes ( 6 scales)
Basic interest scales (30 scales)
Occupational scales (122 scales)
Personal style scales (5 scales)
38
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Homogenous scales (SII)

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general occupational themes (GOT)

Basic interest

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Criterion keyed scales

SII

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Occupational and personal style

40
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Administration

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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
41
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Preparing to interpret the SII (strong interest inventory)

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Validity check

Summary of response style

42
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Validity check

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Total # of responses
Typicality index (respond similarly to items)
43
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Summary of response style

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Explore extreme responsibilities

44
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Extreme responses

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Below 17 tells us atypical response
Some may say they like everything to not rule anything out
More dislikes may be hard to place

45
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Confront atypical responses

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Ask what about activities does the client like

Where the like originates?

46
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General Occupational Themes

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RIASEC

Realistic, investigative, social, enterprising, conventional

47
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Realistic

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Building and repairing

48
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Investigative

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Researching and analyzing

49
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Artistic

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Creating art, music, drama

50
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Social

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Teaching and helping

51
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Enterprising

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Managing and persuading

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Conventional

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Organizing and processing

53
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Music interest scales (BIS)

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Mechanical activities
Medical science
Writing
Social service
Sales
Office services
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Occupational scales

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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

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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

56
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Criterion group

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Employed for 3+ years
At least 25 years old
Satisfied with occupation

57
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Response distributions

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What does your response compare to responses of different occupational holders
Share interests but answers are NOT definitive

58
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Personal style scales look for

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Additional info to narrow the field
Which occupational interests reflect other professions
Higher scores (clear) = need this type of job to feel satisfied
59
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Personal style scales

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Work style, learning, leadership, risk taking, team orientation

60
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“Flat” interest profiles

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Little life or work experience
General indecisiveness
Narrowly defined or unique interests
Disinterest in work
Took the inventory grudgingly.

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