NCE Practice Test (LATEST UPDATE 2022) 880
Questions [84 pages]
Frank Parsons Correct Answer: Father of guidance.
Hans Selye Correct Answer: First to give scientific explanation for biological stress; GAS
(General Adaptation Syndrome).
Transference Correct Answer: Client's projection of past feelings and attitudes onto the
counselor.
Countertransference Correct Answer: When the counselor projects on to the client's behavior or
characteristics of individual's in the counselor's past. The counselor's projected emotional
reaction to or behavior toward the client.
Nonmaleficence Correct Answer: The overriding client welfare term when resolving an ethical
dilemma. Doing no harm
Fidelity Correct Answer: Keeping one's promise.
Beneficence Correct Answer: Being good to others.
Honesty Correct Answer: Free from fraud or deception.
Erikson's 1st stage of development Correct Answer: trust vs. mistrust (0-1 year)
Erikson's 2nd stage of development Correct Answer: Autonomy vs. Shame (2-4 years)
Erikson's 3rd stage of development Correct Answer: Initiative vs. Guilt (4-6 years)
Erikson's 4th stage of development Correct Answer: Industry vs. Inferiority (7-12 years)
autonomy vs. shame Correct Answer: Children at this stage are focused on developing a greater
sense of self-control.
initiative vs. guilt Correct Answer: Children begin to assert their power and control over the
world through directing play and other social interaction.
generativity vs. stagnation Correct Answer: "Making your mark" on the world through caring
for others; individuals may feel disconnected or uninvolved with their community and with
society as a whole.
industry vs. inferiority Correct Answer: Children are at the stage where they will be learning to
read and write, to do sums, to do things on their own.
,Erikson's 5th stage of development Correct Answer: Identity vs. Role Confusion (13 to 19
Years)
Erikson's 6th stage of development Correct Answer: Intimacy vs. Isolation (20 to 40 Years)
Erikson's 7th stage of development Correct Answer: Generativity vs. Stagnation (45 to 65
Years)
Erikson's 8th stage of development Correct Answer: Ego Integrity vs. Despair (65 Years
Onwards)
Successful progression through Erikson's Stages requires: Correct Answer: resolution of the
conflict at each stage.
Erikson's model is a ________ model: Correct Answer: conflict
Donald Super Correct Answer: A vocational theorist who believes a maxicycle is completed
during one's lifetime.
At each stage of Donald Super's theory, what must happen in this minicycle for a person to be
mature at that stage? Correct Answer: Complete tasks society presents at each stage.
Super is best known as: Correct Answer: a stage-and-task theorist.
Super believed: Correct Answer: completion of age-appropriate tasks was essential for maturity
at each age.
Criterion-related validity described as empirical validity and assumed to be separate will differ
in: Correct Answer: time sequence.
Criterion validity includes: Correct Answer: both concurrent and predictive.
Concurrent is for the: Correct Answer: present.
Predictive is for the: Correct Answer: future.
Early forms of test development in Europe and the US focused on which human behavior?
Correct Answer: intelligence.
The Binet and Simon Intelligence Scale was developed: Correct Answer: Between 1900-1909.
Why was the Binet and Simon Intelligence Scale developed? Correct Answer: In an attempt to
demonstrate that hereditary was the basis for intelligence.
The scales of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale reflected: Correct Answer: language, memory,
judgment, comprehension, and reasoning.
,When a counselor is considering how well a client performed in a particular test area, this
concept is: Correct Answer: qualitative.
When a score on a teacher-made math test is used to provide information to a client, it is often
transformed into a standard score. This is not a standard score: Correct Answer: raw score.
These are standard scores: Correct Answer: T-score, z-score, and stanine.
A counselor is determining the relationship between grade point average and a graduate record
examination score. A statistical technique to reflect this relationship is: Correct Answer:
correlation.
Which reliability's correlation is derived when there are two administrations using two different
but equal tests that measure the same construct? Correct Answer: alternate forms.
The most frequent type of data gathering to form a case conceptualization is a(an): Correct
Answer: interview.
Case conceptualization: Correct Answer: is a systematic collection and integration of clinical
data.
a conceptualization is used to: Correct Answer: Gather data and to examine the client's
presenting issue(s).
Examples of case conceptualizations are: Correct Answer: The Steven and Morris Model,
Analytical Model, Inverted Pyramid Model and the Linchpin Model.
Standard error of measurement is to reliability as what is to validity? Correct Answer: standard
error of estimate.
When using a standard achievement test for elementary and middle school children and for the
test to be fair, the sample when established should represent what type of sampling procedure?
Correct Answer: stratified.
Stratified sampling uses: Correct Answer: Norm groups based on national norms such as the
percentage of a certain age or race in the population.
When a counselor is using an instrument to diagnosis for a DSM-5 disorder the counselor is to be
mindful of the: Correct Answer: qualifications of the examiner.
RUST Correct Answer: Responsibilities of Users of Standardized Tests
The RUST report stipulates four factors necessary for qualifications: Correct Answer: purpose,
characteristics, settings-conditions of use, and roles of test selectors, administrators, scorers, and
interpreters.
, When interpreting test results to a client, the Code of Ethics recommends that the counselor:
Correct Answer: has a manual present.
How many name changes has the American Counseling Association undergone? Correct
Answer: Four or more.
ACES Correct Answer: Association for Counselor Education and Supervision
What year was CACREP formed? Correct Answer: 1981
identity vs. role confusion Correct Answer: The process of finding out "Who am I?"
A client in therapy with a person-centered counselor makes the following statement, "I am a
lousy parent." A person-centered counselor would respond: Correct Answer: In what ways do
you see yourself as a lousy parent? (This is an example of concreteness or specificity.)
A client that focuses on facts and not feelings is in the ego state of: Correct Answer: adult.
When a transactional therapist recognizes that the client is utilizing ulterior transactions, the
counselor would point out the: Correct Answer: discrepancy, that is what the client is conveying
in words does not appear to be what the client is experiencing or feeling.
A client who is expressing a desire to train and become a surgeon yet did not take courses such
as biology, chemistry, and sciences in high school would be experiencing which type of choice?
Correct Answer: discrepancy between interest and aptitudes
A career counselor representing the Segmental Theory and Cyclical Counseling would recognize
that when a client expresses (dis)agreement between his/her abilities and preferences, interests
and fantasy preferences, and the socioeconomic accessibility, the client is expressing: Correct
Answer: realism.
A cyclical counselor working with a client who is confused about his/her occupational direction
and present level of satisfaction would conduct which step first? Correct Answer: Appraise the
life stage the individual is presently residing.
Career InfoNet Correct Answer: A key word search (Internet access) for more than a thousand
occupations that includes descriptions, detailed data, employment outlook, salary range, state by
state.
These are utilized when gathering client data to formulate a case conceptualization: Correct
Answer: clinical interview, bio-social interview, and Mental Status Interview.
Kelly Winship model Correct Answer: A communication technique to point out discrepancies in
shared communication.
Questions [84 pages]
Frank Parsons Correct Answer: Father of guidance.
Hans Selye Correct Answer: First to give scientific explanation for biological stress; GAS
(General Adaptation Syndrome).
Transference Correct Answer: Client's projection of past feelings and attitudes onto the
counselor.
Countertransference Correct Answer: When the counselor projects on to the client's behavior or
characteristics of individual's in the counselor's past. The counselor's projected emotional
reaction to or behavior toward the client.
Nonmaleficence Correct Answer: The overriding client welfare term when resolving an ethical
dilemma. Doing no harm
Fidelity Correct Answer: Keeping one's promise.
Beneficence Correct Answer: Being good to others.
Honesty Correct Answer: Free from fraud or deception.
Erikson's 1st stage of development Correct Answer: trust vs. mistrust (0-1 year)
Erikson's 2nd stage of development Correct Answer: Autonomy vs. Shame (2-4 years)
Erikson's 3rd stage of development Correct Answer: Initiative vs. Guilt (4-6 years)
Erikson's 4th stage of development Correct Answer: Industry vs. Inferiority (7-12 years)
autonomy vs. shame Correct Answer: Children at this stage are focused on developing a greater
sense of self-control.
initiative vs. guilt Correct Answer: Children begin to assert their power and control over the
world through directing play and other social interaction.
generativity vs. stagnation Correct Answer: "Making your mark" on the world through caring
for others; individuals may feel disconnected or uninvolved with their community and with
society as a whole.
industry vs. inferiority Correct Answer: Children are at the stage where they will be learning to
read and write, to do sums, to do things on their own.
,Erikson's 5th stage of development Correct Answer: Identity vs. Role Confusion (13 to 19
Years)
Erikson's 6th stage of development Correct Answer: Intimacy vs. Isolation (20 to 40 Years)
Erikson's 7th stage of development Correct Answer: Generativity vs. Stagnation (45 to 65
Years)
Erikson's 8th stage of development Correct Answer: Ego Integrity vs. Despair (65 Years
Onwards)
Successful progression through Erikson's Stages requires: Correct Answer: resolution of the
conflict at each stage.
Erikson's model is a ________ model: Correct Answer: conflict
Donald Super Correct Answer: A vocational theorist who believes a maxicycle is completed
during one's lifetime.
At each stage of Donald Super's theory, what must happen in this minicycle for a person to be
mature at that stage? Correct Answer: Complete tasks society presents at each stage.
Super is best known as: Correct Answer: a stage-and-task theorist.
Super believed: Correct Answer: completion of age-appropriate tasks was essential for maturity
at each age.
Criterion-related validity described as empirical validity and assumed to be separate will differ
in: Correct Answer: time sequence.
Criterion validity includes: Correct Answer: both concurrent and predictive.
Concurrent is for the: Correct Answer: present.
Predictive is for the: Correct Answer: future.
Early forms of test development in Europe and the US focused on which human behavior?
Correct Answer: intelligence.
The Binet and Simon Intelligence Scale was developed: Correct Answer: Between 1900-1909.
Why was the Binet and Simon Intelligence Scale developed? Correct Answer: In an attempt to
demonstrate that hereditary was the basis for intelligence.
The scales of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale reflected: Correct Answer: language, memory,
judgment, comprehension, and reasoning.
,When a counselor is considering how well a client performed in a particular test area, this
concept is: Correct Answer: qualitative.
When a score on a teacher-made math test is used to provide information to a client, it is often
transformed into a standard score. This is not a standard score: Correct Answer: raw score.
These are standard scores: Correct Answer: T-score, z-score, and stanine.
A counselor is determining the relationship between grade point average and a graduate record
examination score. A statistical technique to reflect this relationship is: Correct Answer:
correlation.
Which reliability's correlation is derived when there are two administrations using two different
but equal tests that measure the same construct? Correct Answer: alternate forms.
The most frequent type of data gathering to form a case conceptualization is a(an): Correct
Answer: interview.
Case conceptualization: Correct Answer: is a systematic collection and integration of clinical
data.
a conceptualization is used to: Correct Answer: Gather data and to examine the client's
presenting issue(s).
Examples of case conceptualizations are: Correct Answer: The Steven and Morris Model,
Analytical Model, Inverted Pyramid Model and the Linchpin Model.
Standard error of measurement is to reliability as what is to validity? Correct Answer: standard
error of estimate.
When using a standard achievement test for elementary and middle school children and for the
test to be fair, the sample when established should represent what type of sampling procedure?
Correct Answer: stratified.
Stratified sampling uses: Correct Answer: Norm groups based on national norms such as the
percentage of a certain age or race in the population.
When a counselor is using an instrument to diagnosis for a DSM-5 disorder the counselor is to be
mindful of the: Correct Answer: qualifications of the examiner.
RUST Correct Answer: Responsibilities of Users of Standardized Tests
The RUST report stipulates four factors necessary for qualifications: Correct Answer: purpose,
characteristics, settings-conditions of use, and roles of test selectors, administrators, scorers, and
interpreters.
, When interpreting test results to a client, the Code of Ethics recommends that the counselor:
Correct Answer: has a manual present.
How many name changes has the American Counseling Association undergone? Correct
Answer: Four or more.
ACES Correct Answer: Association for Counselor Education and Supervision
What year was CACREP formed? Correct Answer: 1981
identity vs. role confusion Correct Answer: The process of finding out "Who am I?"
A client in therapy with a person-centered counselor makes the following statement, "I am a
lousy parent." A person-centered counselor would respond: Correct Answer: In what ways do
you see yourself as a lousy parent? (This is an example of concreteness or specificity.)
A client that focuses on facts and not feelings is in the ego state of: Correct Answer: adult.
When a transactional therapist recognizes that the client is utilizing ulterior transactions, the
counselor would point out the: Correct Answer: discrepancy, that is what the client is conveying
in words does not appear to be what the client is experiencing or feeling.
A client who is expressing a desire to train and become a surgeon yet did not take courses such
as biology, chemistry, and sciences in high school would be experiencing which type of choice?
Correct Answer: discrepancy between interest and aptitudes
A career counselor representing the Segmental Theory and Cyclical Counseling would recognize
that when a client expresses (dis)agreement between his/her abilities and preferences, interests
and fantasy preferences, and the socioeconomic accessibility, the client is expressing: Correct
Answer: realism.
A cyclical counselor working with a client who is confused about his/her occupational direction
and present level of satisfaction would conduct which step first? Correct Answer: Appraise the
life stage the individual is presently residing.
Career InfoNet Correct Answer: A key word search (Internet access) for more than a thousand
occupations that includes descriptions, detailed data, employment outlook, salary range, state by
state.
These are utilized when gathering client data to formulate a case conceptualization: Correct
Answer: clinical interview, bio-social interview, and Mental Status Interview.
Kelly Winship model Correct Answer: A communication technique to point out discrepancies in
shared communication.
