2022/2023 Solutions
Which person has been called the Father of Individual Psychology? Correct Answer: Adler
A child has trouble understanding that the amount of juice she sees being poured is the same amount
when it is in her sippy cup and when it is in her baby brother's bottle. She believes the narrower bottle
has more juice. She is in the developmental stage labeled by Piaget as: Correct Answer: Concrete
Operations
Alice is very afraid of flying. She starts with her counselor by talking about a flight. She ends the session
by drawing a plane. She next time talks about her concerns looking at her picture, and then looks at
three other pictures of planes. The third time she starts by looking at the plane pictures and seeing a
model of a plane. She holds the plan model and starts to discuss a plan to visit the airport. The script
mirrors a therapy technique called: Correct Answer: Desensitization
Victor Frankl is known for Correct Answer: Logotherapy
You are not certain that the test you are using is really measuring the anxiety trait you are interested in.
It is correct to say that you are concerned about the test's: Correct Answer: Validity
During a group counseling meeting, a member makes several depressed remarks about his life. He
mentions that the would be better off dead. Things progress for the group toward other issues and he is
quiet. During the middle of the session he makes angry and threatening remarks towards his girlfriend.
He states that he wants to kill her for flirting with the neighbor. At the close of the session he again
repeats that he would be better off dead since people always betray him. As a counselor you are:
Correct Answer: Required legally to warn his girlfriend of his behavior
The shadow is an archtype that Correct Answer: Encompasses everything a person refuses to
acknowledge
At a conference you hear a colleague talking about concerns of symptom substitution with a young
client whose parents are pushing for rapid symptom reduction. You make the assumption that this
colleague is: Correct Answer: An analytically trained counselor
A conditioned association in a person means Correct Answer: A learned association
All behavioral reinforcers Correct Answer: always raise behavioral probability
In a normal curve Correct Answer: The mean, median, and mode are at the same point.
In attempting to understand the life perspectives and characteristics of their clients, some counselors
use Kohlberg's theory of moral development as a theoretical framework. These counselors know that
Kohlberg's theory includes three progressive levels culminating in: Correct Answer: A principled
thought, wherein the individual adopts a self-accepted set of standards of behavior