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NCE AND CPCE PRACTICE TEST #1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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NCE AND CPCE PRACTICE TEST #1QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Psychometric - Answer-Which term below is used to describe concepts pertaining to
mental testing and measurement?
Psychodiagnostic - Answer-Which term refers to the study of personality through
interpretation of behavior and non-verbal cues?
Psychopharmacology - Answer-Which term refers to the study of the effects drugs have
on psychological functions?
The id - Answer-According to Freud, what is the seat of aggression and sexual impulse,
devoid of logic and time orientation?
The ego - Answer-According to Freud, what concept refers to the reality principle,
indicating power of reasoning and control over behavior?
The superego - Answer-What is the moralistic and idealistic principle in Freudian
theory?
Dualistic thinking - Answer-When a teen believes every student is either good at math
or bad at math, what characteristic is the teen displaying?
Relativistic thinking - Answer-An adult who says, "It depends on the circumstances"
when asked to say whether stealing medicine is right or wrong is displaying what
characteristic?
Interpersonal development - Answer-What term refers to a "Constructive Model of
Development," meaning individuals construct reality throughout the lifespan?
Conservation - Answer-When a preschooler complains that another child has more milk
because the other child's glass is taller and narrower, the preschooler is lacking what
concept, according to Piaget?
Educational intervention - Answer-According to Vygotsky, what environmental factor is
necessary in order for developmental stages to unfold?
Epigenetic principle - Answer-Erik Erikson believed that each psychosocial stage built
on the previous stage. What term describes this belief of one stage coming after
another?
Reversibility - Answer-When a preschooler understands that a block structure can be
knocked down and then rebuilt, the child is displaying a grasp of what concept?
, Egocentrism - Answer-A child riding in a car at night tells her mother, "The moon is
following me!" What characteristic of young children is the child displaying?
Level of moral development - Answer-A counselor for a troubled teen tells her client the
Heinz Story and asks for the client's response on what he would do in those
circumstances and why. What characteristic of the client is the counselor trying to
determine?
Psychiatry of interpersonal relations - Answer-In what type of counseling is biological
determination seen as less important than interpersonal issues and the sociocultural
demands of society?
Zone of proximal development - Answer-A teacher gives a new student a reading
passage and comprehension questions that are easy for the student, and then
progressively more difficult reading passages, until the student is unable to correctly
answer 9 of 10 comprehension questions about the passage without help from the
teacher. What is the teacher trying to identify?
Maturationist - Answer-Dr. Callahan is a counselor who always questions her clients
about their childhoods and their past, because she believes that those are very
important therapeutic topics. What term best describes Dr. Callahan's counseling
approach?
Manifest content - Answer-When a client describes to his counselor the events of a
dream that he had, the client is presenting what type of information to the counselor,
according to Freud?
Latent content - Answer-Upon hearing about a disturbing dream a client has had, a
psychoanalytic counselor asks questions about the client's emotions during the dream
and about her reactions to the dream, seeking to understand the dream's hidden
meaning. The counselor is trying to uncover what?
Cephalocaudal - Answer-The proportion of the body represented by an infant's head is
much greater than the proportion of the body represented by an adult's head. An infant's
arms and neck generally develop more quickly than the infant's legs and feet. These are
illustrations of what developmental concept?
Ethology - Answer-Which term below refers to the study of animals' behavior in their
natural environment.?
Centration - Answer-A researcher puts two rows of quarters on a desk. One row has
four quarters, which are spaced widely apart. The second row has five quarters which
are spaced so closely that they are touching. A five-year-old girl is asked to count along
with the researcher to see which row has more. She counts the number of quarters in
each row along with the researcher. Even after counting the quarters in each row, the
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