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Joannie is a part of a research experiment monitoring energy level and depression. She becomes pregnant and tells you that she has been very fatigued. Her tiredness is:
Correct answer: B
Intervening variables are variables that may alter the outcome of a research experiment. They are difficult to control for. Other examples include motivation and boredom.
Which is NOT one of the original 3 stages of career development identified by Ginzberg and his associates?
Correct answer: A
During childhood, individuals are in the fantasy stage. Through play and imagination, they experience many different careers. Once an individual reaches adolescence, he or she enters the tentative stage. This stage has four sub-stages:
interest, capacity, values, and transition. The realistic stage begins around age 17 and lasts through the early 20s. In this stage, the individual will engage in exploration, crystallization, and specification of a specific career. Later, Ginzberg changed his outlook and said that career choice is a life-long process and does not end in the early 20s. Instead, people optimize.
How many stages are there of moral reasoning, according to Kohlberg?
Correct answer: B
Kohlberg's stages have three levels (pre-conventional, conventional and post-conventional) and six
1. obedience and punishment orientation
2. individualism and exchange
3. good interpersonal
4. maintaining the social order
5. social contract and individual rights
6. universal principles.
The archetype of the "Shadow" encompasses which of the following?
Correct answer: C
Carl Jung believed the "Shadow" represented the dark side of someone's personality.
Which of the following is not a factor in the sleep patterns of adolescents?
Correct answer: B
Teens require more sleep than the average adult due to their rapid growth. A teen's decreased sleep patterns do not generally stem from defiant behavior. Teens have biorhythm changes, making them more likely to stay up late and sleep later. They are inundated with academic and social demands which may impair the amount or quality of their sleep.
What type of partial reinforcement produces the best response to stimuli?
Correct answer: B
A variable ratio schedule is when a reward occurs after an unpredictable amount of responses and typically provides a high rate of response. A fixed ratio schedule occurs when a response is reinforced after a set number of responses. Fixed interval schedules reinforce the response only after a certain amount of time has passed. Variable interval schedules reinforce the response after an unpredictable amount of time has gone by.
When a client becomes aware of a factor in his or her life which they were previously unaware, counselors refer to it as:
Correct answer: D
Graham Wallace described the four stages of insight: preparation, incubation, flash of illumination, and verification. The term 'Aha! Moment' is also used to describe insights when things suddenly become clearer.
Which theorist believed in the zone of proximal development (ZPD)?
Correct answer: C
Vygotsky believed the potential for cognitive development depended upon the ZPD, which was a level of development attained when children engage in social interactions. When the social interaction is guided by an adult or collaborated with peers, the ZPD exceeds what one could achieve individually. Kohlberg is known for his work with moral development; Piaget is known for his theory of cognitive development in
children; and Erickson for his eight stages of psychosocial development.
The mean, median and mode are not at the same point on a normal curve.
Correct answer: B
The normal curve is symmetrical. Therefore, there's an equal number of values greater and lower than the peak, which then average out to be the mode, median and mean.
It is ________ to administer a test to a client from a certain population when the test has not been normed to that population.
Correct answer: B
If a test has not been normed to a certain population it is unethical to administer it to a person from that population and the client's results will not be accurate. Normed tests compare and rank the test takers in relation to one another.