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Lifestyle and Career Development II Flashcards

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When did lifestyle and career counseling become popular?

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With the beginning of the counseling and guidance movement (around 1908)

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Who is associated with the birth of the guidance movement and when?

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Frank Parsons (1908)

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How did Frank Parsons impact career counseling?

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Started the Boston Vocation Bureau and wrote Choosing a Vocation which was published posthumously

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What does John O. Crites say about the need for career counseling?

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There is greater need for career counseling than there is for therapy.

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How can career counseling be therapeutic?

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Personal adjustments need to be made.

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What is the glass ceiling phenomenon?

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Suggests women are limited in terms of how far they can advance in the world of work.

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What is the lavender ceiling phenomenon?

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Suggests LGBT individuals are limited in terms of how far they can advance in the world of work.

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What is a reentry woman?

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A woman who has had to re-enter the workforce after being a homemaker.

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What percentage of divorces occur in families with children?

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75%

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How do high school and junior high students feel about guidance in planning a career?

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3/4 of 11th grade students wanted career guidance and nearly the same amount of 8th grade students wanted it.

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When are a students career interests more stable?

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After college

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What percentage of college students have career difficulties?

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50%

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What minority group can especially benefit from career counseling in school and why?

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African Americans because they have fewer positive work role models.

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What percentage of individuals gets a job based on chance?

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1 in 5

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What percentage of workers would like more information on the world of work if they could do it over again?

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60%

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What does Victor Vroom’s expectency theory of motivation suggest?

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An employee’s work performance is influenced by valence (will the work provide rewards?), expectancy ( What does the person feel he is capable of doing?), and instrumentality (will the manager actually give the employee the promised reward?)

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How do dual-career families compare to single career families in income generally?

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Generally the dual-career families have higher income.

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What percentage of families are dual earners?

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54% (compared to 20% in the 1950s)

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How does a dual-career family affect when a woman has children?

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Typically, the woman is secure in her career before having children.

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How do vocational guidance and career counseling differ?

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Vocational guidance is developmental and educational often inside a school setting while career counseling is a therapeutic service usually outside a school setting. (Not all tests will differentiate the two)

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How does having a bachelors degree affect income in most cases?

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Earn at least $10,000 a year more than someone with a high school diploma

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What does the phrase “changing view of work” refer to?

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In the past work was seen as drudgery, and now it is a way to express identity, status, and self-esteem.

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What does the term leisure refer to?

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The time the client has away from work not being used for obligations.

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How does the amount of leisure time in single career families compare to the amount of leisure time in dual career families?

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Single career families have more leisure time.

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What law required equal pay and equal work opportunities for women and minorities?

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Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights act

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What is the “80% Four-fifths rule”?

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It is a hiring rate for hiring minorities. If the rate is less than 80%, an adverse impact is evident. (Example: 60 employees are Black, 80 are white…. 60/80=75%… adverse impact is evident)

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What is the Trait-and-Factor theory?

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psychological testing one’s personality could be matched to an occupation which stressed those particular personality traits (aka profile matching)

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What is the first major and most durable theory of career choice?

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Trait and factor theory

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What is the Minnesota Viewpoint?

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A theory of counseling which transcended vocational issues.

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On what population are most career theories based?

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Middle or Upper class white males who are heterosexual and not disabled.

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Who is associated with trait and factor career counseling?

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E.G. Williamson, C.F. Patterson, and Frank Parsons

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What is differential psychology?

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The study of individual differences?

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Is the trait and factor model grounded in differential psychology?

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Yes

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What is the biggest criticism of the trait and factor model?

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It is over simplistic and assumes there is a single job for the client’s entire life.

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What does the phrase “fourth force in counseling” refer to?

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Multiculturalism

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What is third force psychology?

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Humanistic approaches

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What tests does the Minnesota Viewpoint use to get its data?

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Minnesota Occupational Rating Scales

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What tests would be favored by counselors who prefer a personality theory of career choice?

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Meyers Brings Type Indicator (MBTI), Guilford-Zimmerman Temperment Survey (GZTS), the Adjective Checklist, BDI, and MMPI-2

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Why is the personality theory of career choice not currently popular?

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It is a “test-and-tell” paradigm.

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What does the trait-and-factor approach not account for?

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Individual changes throughout the life span.

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What is Anne Roe’s personality approach to career choice based on?

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The belief that a job satisfies unconscious needs

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How is Anne Roe’s career choice theory organized?

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Two-dimensional system of fields and levels

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What are the eight fields in Anne Roe’s career choice theory?

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Service, business contact, organizations, technology, outdoor, science, general culture, and arts/entertainment

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What are the six levels of occupational skill in Anne Roe’s career choice theory?

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Professional and managerial 1, Professional and managerial 2, semiprofessional/small business, skilled, semiskilled, and unskilled

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What are the three basic parenting styles Anne Roe spoke of?

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Overprotective, avoidant, and acceptant

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How does the type of parenting style affect how the child relates with people?

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The child will either gravitate towards or away from people depending on the parenting style.

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How does Roe’s theory of career choice rely on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?

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Lower order needs (such as safety) take precedence over higher order needs

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What tests support Roe’s theory of career choice?

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The Rorschach and the TAT

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According to Anne Roe, how do genetics affect career choice?

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Genetics help determine intelligence and educational ability which can influence career choice

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What does the term career mean?

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Lifetime positions plus leisure

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What does occupation mean?

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A string of similar jobs

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What does the term job refer to?

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A specific position within an organization.

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What did Edwin Bordin argue about career choice?

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Career choice could be used to resolve unconscious conflicts

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Which defense mechanism did Brill emphasize?

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Sublimation

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Who’s work is the most popular approach to career counseling currently?

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John Holland

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What is Holland’s first assumption?

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In our culture, there are 6 basic personality types: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional.

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What are Holland’s 6 basic Personality types?

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Artistic, Social, Realistic, investigative, Conventional, and enterprising. (Mneumonic AS RICE)

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What is Holland’s second assumption?

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Work environment’s correspond to the six personality types

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What is Holland’s third assumption?

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People search for an agreeable environment which lets them express their personality type

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What is Holland’s fourth assumption?

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The individual’s behavior is determined by an interaction between personality and the environment.

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What test measures Holland’s 6 personality types?

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Self-Directed Search

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Roe, Brill and Holland are what kind of theorists?

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Personality or structural

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What did Holland believe about an individuals behavioral style (modal orientation)?

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It doesn’t usually fit firmly into one personality type and instead can best be described by a distribution (like RSI… realistic, social, and investigative)

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What did Holland believe about jobs and personalities?

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Jobs will attract a people with similar personalities.

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Who’s work is Hoppock’s theory based on?

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Henry Murray

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What did Henry Murray create?

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The “needs-press” theory and the TAT.

67
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How do developmental career theorists view career choice?

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As an ongoing or longitudinal process.

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Who were the first developmental career theorists?

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Ginzberg, Ginsberg, Axelrad, and Herma.

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What does Ginzberg and his colleagues say about when career choice begins?

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Career choices are reversible and are made throughout the client’s lifetime

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What are the three stages of development which Ginzberg initially viewed as irreversible?

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Fantasy (birth to age 11); Tentative (ages 11 to 17); Realistic (age 17 to early 20s)

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Who is the most popular career theorist?

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Donald Super

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What is Donald Super’s career theory based on?

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Self-concept

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How many life stages does Donald Super’s theory emphasize?

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Five

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What are Donald Super’s Five life stages?

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Growth, Exploration, Establishment, Maintenance, Decline

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What ages are associated with Donald Super’s Growth Stage?

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Birth to age 14

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What ages are associated with Donald Super’s Exploration Stage?

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15-24

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What ages are associated with Donald Super’s Establishment Stage?

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24-44

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What ages are associated with Donald Super’s Maintenance Stage?

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44-64

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What ages are associated with Donald Super’s Decline Stage?

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65+

80
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What Mneumonic helps remember Donald Super’s growth stages?

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GEE MD

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What is Donald Super’s life-career rainbow?

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The potential roles which a person can play as they advance through the 5 stages

82
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How might career maturity be referred to on the exam?

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Vocational maturity

83
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Who’s work reflects career maturity?

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John Crites

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What did Nancy Schlossberg suggest about adult career development?

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1) Behavior in the adult years is primarily determined by social factors; 2) Behavior is a function of one’s life stage or one’s age at other times; 3) Sex differences are more powerful than age/stage differences; 4) Adults continually experience transitions which require adaptation and self-assessment; 5) Identity, intimacy, and generativity and recurring themes in adulthood

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Who proposed the decision-making theory which refers to periods of anticipation and implementation/adjustment?

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David Tiedeman and Robert O’Hara

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What is the decision-making theory?

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A two-part process including an Anticipation stage and an implementation phase

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What occurs in the anticipation stage of the decision-making theory?

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The client imagines himself in a given career

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What occurs in the implementation (aka accommodation or induction) stage of the decision-making theory?)

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The client engages in reality testing regarding his expectations about the occupation.

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What do all decision making theories have in common?

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The individual has the power to choose from various career options.

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What kind of approach did John Krumboltz take to career choice?

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Social learning

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On who’s work was John Krumboltz’s work based?

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Albert Bandura

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What theorists were social learning theorists?

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Anita Mitchell, G. Brian Jones, John Kromboltz, and Albert Bandura

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What did Albert Bandura’s theory argue?

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People learn from the consequences of their own actions and by observing the consequences of others.

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What is vicarious learning?

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Learning by watching others?

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What did Krumboltz believe about interests?

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They are changeable and the result of learning.

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What are two popular behavioral techniques in career counseling?

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Realistic job preview and guided imagery

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What is Realistic job preview?

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A behavioral technique in which the client will contact someone who works in a specific job and interview that worker.

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How does guided imagery work in career counseling?

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The counselor has the client imagine a day working in the field in the job, perhaps even receiving accolades for performance.

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What kind of model of career counseling is Krumboltz’s model?

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A behavioristic model

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What is a human capital theory?

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Individuals secure training and education to get the best possible income.

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What is the accident theory of career counseling?

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Chance factors influence one’s career

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What is the status attainment theory?

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Child will eventually attain a job commensurate with his family status.

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A site visit to a work setting would most likely be what kind of theorist’s intervention?

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A behaviorist.

104
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Who developed the decision approach to career counseling?

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Harry Gelatt

105
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The decision model refers to information as what?

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The fuel of the decision.

106
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How does the decision model organize information?

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Three sections: predictive, value, and decision.

107
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What is the predictive system concerned with in Getlatt’s decision model?

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Probable alternatives, actions, and possibilities.

108
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What is the value system in the Getlatt decision model concerned with?

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Relative preferences regarding outcomes

109
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What is job-netting?

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Finding a job on the internet

110
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What is the OOH according to career counselors?

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Occupational Outlook Handbook

111
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When was the OOH originally published?

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1946

112
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How often is the OOH revised?

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Every 2 years

113
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What does the OOH contain?

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Salient details about the job including job training, and advancement opportunities

114
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How many jobs did DOT list at its zenith?

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30,000 job titles

115
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What does O*NET stand for?

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Occupational Information Network

116
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What is O*Net?

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Electronic replacement for DOT listing job titles

117
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Jobs in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles have how many digits in their codes?

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Nine

118
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Where would a counselor looking for information about trends in the job market look?

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OOH

119
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What is underemployment?

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Occurs when a worker is employed in a position below his skill level

120
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How many job descriptions are in the OOH?

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Approximately 800

121
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Who’s work is the self-efficacy theory based on?

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Albert Bandura

122
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What does the self-efficacy theory say about career choice?

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One’s belief or expectation of being successful in an occupation causes the individual to gravitate toward a particular occupation.

123
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What is spillover in regards to an individual’s job?

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A client enjoys what they do so much, they start to engage in similar activities during their leisure time.

124
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What is the compensatory effect?

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A worker makes up for things he can’t do on the job during their leisure time.

125
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What is the Strong Interest Inventory based on?

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John Holland’s theory

126
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What does the Strong Interest Inventory evaluate?

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Interests, not abilities.

127
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What is the assumption of the Strong Interest Inventory (SCII)?

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An individual will have satisfaction in a job with aligns with his interests.

128
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How many items are in the Strong Interest Inventory?

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291

129
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Who administers and scores the Self-Directed Search?

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The individual taking it

130
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On who’s work is the Self-directed (SDS) search based?

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John Holland

131
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What does the Self-directed search yield?

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Scores on the 6 personality types

132
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What is a hidden job market?

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Most jobs are not advertised

133
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Who’s work is represented by a hexagon?

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John Holland

134
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What is the DAT?

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Differential Aptitude Test

135
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What is the DAT used for?

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Help students decide whether to attend college and what areas they might excel most in.

136
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What is the GATB?

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General Aptitude Test Battery

137
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What is the GATB used for?

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Testing for government agencies

138
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What is the difference between an aptitude test and an achievement test?

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An aptitude test evaluates potential; an achievement test evaluates what you’ve learned.

139
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What is a displaced homemaker?

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A person who has to re-enter the workforce after their children are grown or a spouse has died or divorced.

140
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What does occupational sex segregation suggest?

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Female occupations pay less and lack the status of male occupations.

141
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What is a dislocated worker?

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This is the same as a displaced homemaker.

142
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When does mid-life career change typically take place?

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Ages 35-45

143
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What is SIGI Plus?

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System of Interactive Guidance and Information

144
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What is the SIGI Plus test for?

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Gives up-to-date information on colleges and graduate schools.

145
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Who promoted the concept of job clubs?

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Azrin and colleagues.

146
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What is the purpose of job clubs?

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Help client’s find job leads and network

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