NCE PRACTICE TEST WITH CORRECT VERRIFIED
ANSWERS
a group counselor uses techniques based on implosive therapy
in her work. which theorist is responsible for implosive therapy?
a. ellis
b. beck
c. janov
d. stampfl - ANSWER -d. stampfl - abreactive form of therapy
often used with highly phobic clients. clients are induced to
read or hear about or imagine frightening depictions of what
might happen if they are forced to face their fear. idea is that
the person will become desensitized
a group counselor decides to make graphs of the psychological
test data for all of her clients over the past year. when she plots
the distribution of beck depression inventory data, she notices
it it skewed to the left. which of the following statements is true
if a distribution is skewed to the left?
,a. the mean is greater than the median
b. the mean is less than the median
c. the mean and median are the same
d. the mode is the best measure of center - ANSWER -b. the
mean is less than the median - it means that although most of
the scores are to the right of the distribution, there are a few
low scores pulling the distribution to the left. the mean is most
impacted by the extreme scores. Because the extreme scores in
this dist. are low, the value of the mean will be made less than
the value of the median
Susie is playing with blocks and is trying to build a tower; she
tries but cannot build a
tower. Susie's mother helps her build a four-block tower. Later,
Susie builds a four-block
tower without her mother's help. According to Vygotsky, the
inability to build the tower on
her own is known as:
a. scaffolding
b. the zone of proximal development
c. assisted discovery
,d. learning by imitation - ANSWER -B. "Scaffolding" is a term
used by Vygotsky that explains what Susie's mother is doing.
She is adjusting her level of support to Susie based on Susie's
level of performance. The zone
of proximal development involves a range of tasks that are too
difficult for the child to do
alone but possible to do with the help of adults or other, more-
skilled children. "Assisted
discovery" is another term used by Vygotsky to describe
learning situations that a teacher
sets up within a classroom so that children are guided into
discovering learning. Learning
by imitation is a type of learning that involves a child watching
someone perform a task and
later performing the task by herself.
According to Erickson, when an individual fails to develop a
strong sense of identity, the
individual will have troubles with the development of:
a. autonomy
b. initiative
, c. intimacy
d. integrity - ANSWER -C. In Erickson's theory of psychosocial
development, individuals who fail to achieve the goal of the
lower level of development will have problems attaining the
developmental task at the next stage of development. In the
example above, the individual failed to achieve identity, which
occurs during adolescence. Therefore, in young adulthood, the
individual will have problems attaining intimacy, which is the
developmental task to be achieved at
this level. For autonomy, the individual would have to have
failed to attain basic trust; for initiative, the individual would
have to have failed to attain autonomy; and for integrity, the
individual would have to have failed to attain generativity.
Which of the following is the correct sequence of stages in
Freud's theory of personality
development?
a. Oral, genital, latency, anal, phallic
b. Genital, anal, phallic, oral, latency
c. Latency, phallic, oral, anal, genital
d. Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital - ANSWER -D. The best
way to remember Freud's psychosexual stages of development
ANSWERS
a group counselor uses techniques based on implosive therapy
in her work. which theorist is responsible for implosive therapy?
a. ellis
b. beck
c. janov
d. stampfl - ANSWER -d. stampfl - abreactive form of therapy
often used with highly phobic clients. clients are induced to
read or hear about or imagine frightening depictions of what
might happen if they are forced to face their fear. idea is that
the person will become desensitized
a group counselor decides to make graphs of the psychological
test data for all of her clients over the past year. when she plots
the distribution of beck depression inventory data, she notices
it it skewed to the left. which of the following statements is true
if a distribution is skewed to the left?
,a. the mean is greater than the median
b. the mean is less than the median
c. the mean and median are the same
d. the mode is the best measure of center - ANSWER -b. the
mean is less than the median - it means that although most of
the scores are to the right of the distribution, there are a few
low scores pulling the distribution to the left. the mean is most
impacted by the extreme scores. Because the extreme scores in
this dist. are low, the value of the mean will be made less than
the value of the median
Susie is playing with blocks and is trying to build a tower; she
tries but cannot build a
tower. Susie's mother helps her build a four-block tower. Later,
Susie builds a four-block
tower without her mother's help. According to Vygotsky, the
inability to build the tower on
her own is known as:
a. scaffolding
b. the zone of proximal development
c. assisted discovery
,d. learning by imitation - ANSWER -B. "Scaffolding" is a term
used by Vygotsky that explains what Susie's mother is doing.
She is adjusting her level of support to Susie based on Susie's
level of performance. The zone
of proximal development involves a range of tasks that are too
difficult for the child to do
alone but possible to do with the help of adults or other, more-
skilled children. "Assisted
discovery" is another term used by Vygotsky to describe
learning situations that a teacher
sets up within a classroom so that children are guided into
discovering learning. Learning
by imitation is a type of learning that involves a child watching
someone perform a task and
later performing the task by herself.
According to Erickson, when an individual fails to develop a
strong sense of identity, the
individual will have troubles with the development of:
a. autonomy
b. initiative
, c. intimacy
d. integrity - ANSWER -C. In Erickson's theory of psychosocial
development, individuals who fail to achieve the goal of the
lower level of development will have problems attaining the
developmental task at the next stage of development. In the
example above, the individual failed to achieve identity, which
occurs during adolescence. Therefore, in young adulthood, the
individual will have problems attaining intimacy, which is the
developmental task to be achieved at
this level. For autonomy, the individual would have to have
failed to attain basic trust; for initiative, the individual would
have to have failed to attain autonomy; and for integrity, the
individual would have to have failed to attain generativity.
Which of the following is the correct sequence of stages in
Freud's theory of personality
development?
a. Oral, genital, latency, anal, phallic
b. Genital, anal, phallic, oral, latency
c. Latency, phallic, oral, anal, genital
d. Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital - ANSWER -D. The best
way to remember Freud's psychosexual stages of development
