Career Counseling, Final Prep

_______________ refers to a worker’s attempt to improve fit in a work environment.

• adaptation

• environment fit

• work adjustment

• adjustment

In Trait Factor Theory, the primary goal of using assessment data was to predict __________ and success. Contemporary practices stress the relationships between human factors and work environments. Test data are used to observe the similarity between client and current workers in a career field.

• personality

• happiness

• job satisfaction

• productivity

Individuals are products of their environment. Stability of career choice depends on dominance of personal orientation. Individuals who fit a pure personality type will express little resemblance to other types. Clients who have many occupational goals have low identity. Congruence occurs when client’s personality type matches the corresponding work environment.

• Holland

• Super

• Ann Roe

• Gottfredson

Individuals who enjoy working with people were reared by warm accepting parents and those who avoid contact with others were reared by cold or rejecting parents. 

• Ann Roe

• Parson

• Holland

• Krumboltz

Self-concept is one’s view of self.

Cognitive maps of occupations reflect dimensions of prestige level, masculinity/femininity, and field of work.

Social space refers to a zone or view of where each person fits into society.

_________________ is the process of narrowing one’s territory of social space or alternative.

__________________suggests that individuals will settle for a good choice but not best.

• Circumscription, Adaptation

  
  

• Circumscription, Compromise

  
  

• Decision making, Compromise

  
  

• Decision making, Adaptation

  
  

 Attitudes and competencies are related to career growth and identified as career maturity.  

• true

• false

Genetic endowments are inherited qualities that may set limits on career choice.

• true

• false

Environmental conditions are contextual interactions that influence individual choices.

• true

• false

CASVE involves the following generic computer processing skills:

Communication (identifying a need),

Analysis (interrelating problem components),

Synthesis (eliminating unlikely alternatives),

Valuing (prioritizing alternatives), and

Execution (forming means-end strategies).

• true

• false

Instrumental learning experiences are those acquired through observation, consequences, and reaction of others.

• true

• false