Social & Cultural Flashcards
119
The frustration-aggression theory is associated with
a. Albert Ellis
b. Robert Havinghurst, who created the ideal of the developmental task concept
c. Eric Berne, the creator of transactional analysis (TA)
d. John Dollard and Neal Miller
d
106
Which therapist was not instrumental in the early years of the social psychology movement?
a. Freud
b. Durkheim
c. McDougall
d. Berne
d
120 A popular balance theory in social psychology is \_\_\_\_ cognitive dissonance theory a. Dollard and Miller's b. Crites and Roe's c. Festinger's d. Holland and Super's
c
123
Mores are beliefs
a. regarding the rightness or wrongness of behavior
b. which should be the central focus in multicultural counseling
c. that are conscious decision made by persons in power
d. that are identical with the folkways in the culture
a
124
_____ was the first pioneer to focus heavily on sociocultural issues.
a. Mark Savickas - a major figure in career counseling
b. Alfred Adler - the Father of Individual Psychology
c. Maxie Maultby - the Father of Rational Behavior Therapy (RBT)
d. Frank Parsons - the Father of Guidance, who wrote “Choosing a Voction”
d
129
According to the foot-in-the-door technique, which has two distint steps, a counselor who needs to make a home visit to a resistant client’s home
a. should conduct the interview from the porch
b. should double-bind the client
c. should ask to come in the home
d. should exude accurate empathy, but never ask to enter the home
c
131
Whereas a culture is defined primarily via norms and values, a society differs from a culture in that a society
a. is defined as a set of mores
b. has a distinct lack of norms
c. is a self-perpetuating independent group which occupies a definitive territory
d. none of the above
c
133
All of these statements are ethnocentric except
a. you can’t trust anyone over the age 40
b. Americans are generous
c. Blue-collar workers are mean and selfish
d. the Gross Domestic Product in the US exceeds the figure in Mexico
d
Ethnocentrism is based on opinion. D is based on fact.
135
Regardless of culture, the popular individual
a. has good social skills
b. values race over ethnicity
c. dresses in the latest styles
d. never possesses a modal personality
a
0
Two of the most popular myths about geriatric populations are ___ declines with old age and the elderly are incapable of _____.
a. intelligence, sex
b. sex, intelligence
c. sex, memory
d. none of the above
a
140
Most experts would agree that a multicultural counselor’s diagnosis
a. must be performed without regard to cultural issues
b. must be done within a cultural context
c. a and be
d. none of the above
b
141
A counselor who is seeing a client from a different culture would most likely expect ___ social conformity that he or she would form a client from his or her own culture.
a. less
b. more
c. the same
d. more realistic
a
rigid standards from our own culture
145
A woman who is being robbed
a. would probably get the most assistance in a crowd with a large number of bystanders
b. would find that the number of people who would respond to her distress actually decreases as the number of bystanders increases
c. would rarely have a bystander from a different race try to help her
d. none of the above
b
159
When counseling a client from a different culture, a common error is made when negative transference
a. is interpreted as possitive transference
b. is interpreted as therapeutic resistance
c. is interpreted as White privilege
d. none of the above
b
161
Counselors can more easily advise
a. clients from their own culture
b. clients from a different culture
c. clients of a different race
d. clients utilizing ethnocentric statements
a
