Lifestyle & Career Development Flashcards
Melinda is the vice president of a multimillion-dollar brokerage firm. She has now chosen to leave the company to work at a small food pantry near her home. This illustrates the:
a) trend known as opting out
b) notion of the glass ceiling
c) trend of underemployment we see in this country
d) notion of the silicon ceiling we see in this country
a) trend known as opting out
John Krumboltz:
a) used primarily REBT created by Albert Ellis to help explain career choice
b) advocates a humanistic approach to help explain a career choice
c) draws on behavioristic principles to help explain career choice
d) relied on psychodynamic notions to help explain career choice
c) draws on behavioristic principles to help explain career choice
Diana’s supervisor allows her to do her job as she wishes. She hardly ever sees him and he rarely interacts with her. It is safe to say that he is:
a) operating out of a laissez-faire leadership style
b) a totally desirable democratic leadership style
c) an authoritarian or autocratic leadership style
d) an incompetent supervisor and he ought to be replaced.
a) operating out of a laissez-faire leadership style
According to sex wage discrimination statics:
a) women actually earn almost the identical salary that a man would make for the same job
b) women make a lot less for entry level jobs, but then catch up to men at the higher level positions
c) women make about 50 cents on the dollar when compared to men
d) women make about 70 to 75 cents on the dollar when compared to men, however, this figure seems to be lower if you look at salaries of entry level jobs secured by younger men and women
d) women make about 70 to 75 cents on the dollar when compared to men, however, this figure seems to be lower if you look at salaries of entry level jobs secured by younger men and women
John Holland’s theory posits six personal styles plotted on a hexagon. These are really personality styles. Pick the choice that is not one of the six:
a) athletic
b) realistic
c) enterprising
d) conventional
a) athletic
A dual-career family (or dual-worker couple) is one in which both partners have jobs to which they are committed on a somewhat continuous basis. Which statement is true of dual-career families?
a) surprisingly enough, dual-career families have lower incomes than families in which only one partner works
b) dual-career families have higher incomes than the so-called traditional family in which only one partner is working.
c) dual- career family have incomes which are almost identical to families one partner working
d) surprisingly enough, no research has been conducted on dual-career families
b) dual-career families have higher incomes than the so-called traditional family in which only one partner is working.
In terms of leisure time and dual-career families:
a) dual-career families have more leisure time
b) dual-career families have the same amount of leisure times as families with one wage earner
c) dual-career families have less leisure time
d) dual-career families have more weekend leisure time
c) dual-career families have less leisure time
The trait-and-factor career counseling, actuarial, or matching approach (which matches clients with a job) is associated with:
a) Parsons and Williamson
b) Roe and Brill
c) Holland and Super
d) Tiedeman and Ohara
a) Parsons and Williamson
Edmund Griffith Williamson’s work (or the so-called Minnesota Viewpoint) purports to be scientific and didactic, utilizing test data from instruments such as the :
a) Rorschach and the TAT
b) Binet and the Wechsler
c) BDI and the MMPI
d) Minnesota Occupational Rating Scales
d) Minnesota Occupational Rating Scales
Roe spoke of the three basic parenting styles: overprotective, avoidant, or acceptant. The results is that the child:
a) experiences neurosis or psychosis
b) will eventually have a lot of jobs or a lack of employment
c) will develop a personality which gravitates (i.e. moves) toward people or away from people
d) will suffer from depression in the work setting or will be highly motivated to succeed
c) will develop a personality which gravitates (i.e. moves) toward people or away from people
In terms of genetics, Roe’s theory would assert that:
a) genetics play a very minor role in career choice
b) genetics help to determine intelligence and education, and hence this influences one’s career choice
c) genetics are important while upbringing is not
d) genetics are important while the unconscious is not
b) genetics help to determine intelligence and education, and hence this influences one’s career choice
Another career theorist who drew upon psychoanalytic doctrines was A. A. Brill. Brill emphasized as an ago-defense mechanism:
a) subliminal
b) sublimation
c) repression
d) rationalization
b) sublimation
Today, the most popular approach to career choice reflects:
a) the work of Anne Roe
b) the work of Donald Super
c) the work of John Holland
d) the work of Jane Loevinger
c) the work of John Holland
Most experts in the field of career counseling would classify Roe, Brill, and Holland as __________ theorists:
a) behavior modification
b) ego psychologists
c) experiential
d) personality
d) personality
John Holland did indeed believe in career stereotypes. In other words, the person psychologically defines himself or herself via a given job. Thus, a book-keeper or a clerical worker would primarily fit into the category:
a) artistic
b) conventional
c) realistic
d) social
b) conventional
