Test Prep NCE Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Test Prep NCE Online Questions & Answers

• Question 41:

  When present in females, the Oedipus Complex is referred to as the:

  A. Electra Complex
  B. Feelings of Reciprocity
  C. Electric Complex
  D. Oedipa Complex
  A. Electra Complex

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  Freud described the Oedipus Complex as a stage when a boy develops feelings of desire for his mother and has feelings of anger and jealousy toward his father. The Electra Complex is when a girl develops feelings of desire for her father and has feelings of anger and jealousy toward her mother.

• Question 42:

  Therapists adhering to which of the following theories would believe that aggression is learned through modeling?

  A. Social Learning
  B. Behavioral
  C. Psychodynamic
  D. Humanistic
  A. Social Learning

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  Albert Bandura demonstrated this with his famous Bobo Doll Experiments. Children in the group who saw the adult treat the doll aggressively were much more aggressive in their own treatment of the doll. Behaviorists would believe aggression is learned through conditioning. Psychodynamic followers would explain aggression as an instinct - Thanatos. The humanistic explanation is that aggression is caused by unmet needs.

• Question 43:

  A college student viewing a situation as good or bad or right or wrong is using:

  A. Dualistic Thinking
  B. Pessimism
  C. Relativistic Thinking
  D. Erroneous Thinking
  A. Dualistic Thinking

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  Perry believed college students go through 4 stages of mental and moral development: Dualism, Multiplicity, Relativism, and Commitment. Dualistic thinking occurs in Dualism when students believe every problem is solvable and they are to learn the right answers. Relativistic thinking is the belief that every issue must be evaluated because everything is contextual.

• Question 44:

  The mean, median and mode are not at the same point on a normal curve.

  A. True
  B. False
  B. False

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  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.

• Question 45:

  Talking about difficulties to purge them is a curative process known as:

  A. Catharsis
  B. Problem solving
  C. Release
  D. Sounding off
  A. Catharsis

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  While Aristotle was the first to describe catharsis, it was the psychoanalyst Josef Breuer who first used it as a technique. He found that while recalling traumatic experiences under hypnosis, his clients experienced relief after expressing the repressed emotions.

• Question 46:

  A dog is trained to salivate at the ringing of a bell. What form of conditioning is this?

  A. Classical Conditioning
  B. Operant Conditioning
  C. Reinforcement Conditioning
  D. None of the above
  A. Classical Conditioning

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  Classical conditioning occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired. In this case, the two stimuli were the ringing of the bell and the treat. Operant conditioning occurs when there are rewards and punishments associated with learning. Reinforcement is a term associated with operant conditioning.

• Question 47:

  Reliability tells:

  A. if a test measures what it says it measures.
  B. how consistently a test measures an attribute.
  C. if the client can be trusted.
  D. where the counseling process should focus.
  B. how consistently a test measures an attribute.

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  Reliability is a key part of any assessment. The scale needs to provide consistent results over repeated measurements. If a test measures what it says it measures, the test has validity. Reliability and validity are independent of each other...a test can be both reliable and valid; reliable, but not valid; or not reliable, but valid.

• Question 48:

  Kohlberg's theory of moral development has three progressive levels ending in:

  A. personhood
  B. sexual ambiguity
  C. principled thought
  D. self-realization
  C. principled thought

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  In Kohlberg's third level, individuals do come to realize they are separate from their society, but this occurs in the 5th stage. Principled thought comes after moving through the 6th stage, which Kohlberg believed few people actually reached.

• Question 49:

  It is ________ to administer a test to a client from a certain population when the test has not been normed to that population.

  A. appropriate
  B. unethical
  C. illegal
  D. unfair
  B. unethical

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  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.

• Question 50:

  Your patient enters your session excited about the New Age therapy you tried last session. She had brought in an article, and because of her enthusiasm and the fact that it did not require any new training, you had agreed to give it a try. She asks you to continue during this session, but you have done your homework: it's been proven ineffective and, in a select few clients, the condition was slightly worsened. You validate your patient, noting how glad you are that she's excited to try something new. Then you tell her that, unfortunately, you won't be able to continue with these types of treatments. With this act, you are expressing:

  A. Anti-Consumerism
  B. Beneficence
  C. Exploitation
  D. Non-Malfeasance
  D. Non-Malfeasance

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  Non-malfeasance" is refraining from providing ineffective treatments or acting with malice towards a patient. "Anti-consumerism" is incorrect because is not a therapeutic or ethical term. "Beneficence" is incorrect because it means that you take actions to benefit others. "Exploitation" is incorrect because it is a therapist's misuse of power to influence and exploit clients for their own benefit and to the clients' detriment.