Gottfredson

Question 1

Circumscription

Answer 1

Process by which children narrow there occupational alternatives by eliminating those that are not acceptable and prestige or sex type

Question 2

Compromise

Answer 2

Process by which preferred alternatives are sacrificed because they are inaccessible

Question 3

Cognitive growth

Answer 3

Development of increasingly complex cognitive ability during childhood, which influences the cognitive occupational map and the self-concept

Question 4

Self creation

Answer 4

How the experiences that one chooses build on biologically-based characteristics of an individual

Question 5

Zone of acceptable alternatives

Answer 5

The occupations remaining after an individual eliminates occupations because of sex type, intolerably low prestige, or intolerably high effort

Question 6

Tolerable-effort boundary

Answer 6

The lowest level of prestige considered acceptable among occupational alternatives

Question 7

Tolerable-level boundary

Answer 7

The highest level of effort considered acceptable among occupational alternatives

Question 8

Sex type

Answer 8

A limiting foundry within one’s zone of acceptable alternative’s; it emerges as an influence in stage two, where children become aware of the sex-appropriateness of different occupations

Question 9

Prestige

Answer 9

A limiting floor and ceiling foundry within one’s zone of acceptable alternatives; it emerges as a factor in stage III, where children become aware of the differential prestige of occupations within society