General Practice Test Flashcards
Which of the following aspects of counseling might be expected to feature prominently in the early stages part of a counseling relationship?
- developing action plans
- strategizing how to create change
- clarifying counseling goals
- confronting discrepancies
clarifying counseling goals
Taking on cultural characteristics of a host culture after immigrating to live within that culture is called
- enculturation
- acculturation
- cultural encapsulation
- regeneration
acculturation
Ensuring that a test is administered properly makes sure that the results are
- reliable
- valid
- objective
- distributed
valid
B.F. Skinner would argue that human development was influenced most by
- watching others
- cultural constraints
- genetically programmed maturation
- environmental contingencies
environmental contingencies
Which concept fits best with Kohlberg’s postconventional stage of moral reasoning?
- independent values
- focus on consequences
- generalized guilt
- rule adherence
independent values
In administering standardized tests a primary duty of test administrators is to
- review scoring procedures
- review the manual
- review the student’s background
- review the ACA Code of Ethics
review the manual
Feeling a high degree of loyalty and belonging to a group is typical of the ________ stage of a group
- transition
- formative
- working
- fidelity
working
Which type of test would be unlikely to produce a normal distribution of scores
- an achievement or mastery test
- an interest inventory
- a written IQ test
- a nonverbal IQ test
an achievement or mastery test
In group work a closed group is more likely to be one in which
- screening is more thorough
- the group will be finished quicker
- self-disclosure is encouraged more
- the transition stage become difficult
screening is more thorough
“First do no harm.” This ethical principle is known as the principle of
- beneficence
- nonmalificence
- fidelity
- justice
nonmalificence
“Solving a problem in their heads” indicates that children are operating in which of Piaget’s stages?
- preoperational
- concrete
- formal
- universal
formal
In the Tarasoff case, the counselor was found negligent of the duty to
- maintain confidentiality
- warn the authorities of danger to a client
- provide for informed consent with regard to possible dangers
- warn the client of imminent danger
warn the client of imminent danger
Cultural deficiency models explain cultural differences in educational outcomes primarily in terms of one group’s shortage of
- economic opportunity
- ethnicity awareness
- effective leadership
- pluralistic beliefs
economic opportunity
Which of the following statements would you associate with Viktor Frankl?
- I am not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not in this world to live up to mine.
- Seeking perfection is irrational and unrealistic.
- Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
- Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how
If members of a cultural group place strong emphasis on the verbal portions of a message they can be described as
- high context
- low context
- context-free
- context-deficient
low context
