NCE and CPCE Study Guide Questions With Correct And Revised Answers
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What does CACREP stand for? - answerthe Council for the Accreditation and Counseling
Related Educational Programs
What does CCE stand for? - answerCenter for Credentialing and Education, inc
What does REBT stand for and who is...
NCE and CPCE Study Guide Questions With
Correct And Revised Answers
What does CACREP stand for? - answer✔✔the Council for the Accreditation and Counseling
Related Educational Programs
What does CCE stand for? - answer✔✔Center for Credentialing and Education, inc
What does REBT stand for and who is the main theorist associated with it? - answer✔✔Rational
Emotive Behavioral Therapy; Ellis.
Name Freud's Psychosexual stages of development. - answer✔✔Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latent, and
Genital. (Mnemonic device: Oh, Anthony, Please Let's Go!)
Describe Erik Erikson's stages. - answer✔✔Erik Erikson is an Ego psychologist and a disciple of
Freud. His 8 stages focus on social relationships, therefore they are called psychosocial. Each
stage has a crisis that must be overcome in order to move on to the next stage. His stages are
Trust v. Mistrust; Autonomy v. Shame/doubt; Industry v. Inferiority; Initiative vs. Guilt; Identity
v. Role confusion; Intimacy v. Isolation; Generativity vs. Stagnation; Integrity vs. Despair.
(Mnemonic device: The Air In Iceland Is Icy, Greenland Isn't.)
define psychometric. - answer✔✔pertaining to mental testing and measurement
define psychodiagnostic - answer✔✔the study of personality through interpretation of behavior
and non-verbal cues; or labeling a client in a diagnostic category.
define psychopharmacology - answer✔✔the study of the effects drugs have on psychological
functions.
What is the id? - answer✔✔the basic instinct principle in Freudian theory. It is the seat of
aggression and sexual impulse. It is devoid of logic and time orientation. It is chaotic and bodily
focused.
What is the ego? - answer✔✔this is the reality principle in Freudian theory. It indicates power of
reasoning and control over behavior. It helps keep the impulses of the id in check.
What is the superego? - answer✔✔the superego is the moralistic and idealistic principle in the
Freudian theory.
Which group of theorists believe "if you can't measure it, it doesn't exist"? -
answer✔✔Behaviorists. They focus on O.O.B. The observable, objective behaviors. (My AP
psych teacher in HS called it the O.O.B. tampon. gross, but it helped me remember it!)
Who is the only psychoanalyst with a developmental theory that covered the entire lifespan? -
answer✔✔Erik Erikson's Psychosocial stages covered the entire lifespan. Each stage has a crisis
or turning point.
What theory is A. A. Brill associated with? - answer✔✔Career theory
Milton H. Erickson is associated with... - answer✔✔Brief psychotherapy and hypnosis.
What field is Jean Piaget associated with? - answer✔✔Cognitive Child Development
Who is Jay Haley and what is the nature of his contribution to counseling? - answer✔✔Haley is
most famous for his work on strategic and problem-solving therapy, more specifically with his
use of the paradox technique. He also studied with Milton Erickson.
Arnold Lazarus - answer✔✔He is a known behavioral therapist who worked specifically with
methods of desensitization and phobias. He is most associated with Multimodal Therapy.
William Perry - answer✔✔He is known for his work in adult cognitive development, specifically
with college students. He worked a lot with the concept of "dualistic thinking" among college
students, where everything is either black or white. (Memory technique: think of Katy Perry's
song Hot and Cold to associate Perry with dualism.)
Ed Neukrug - answer✔✔Also a cognitive developmentalist. His work is similar to Perry's. He
noted that college students initially think that their professor has all the answers (dualistic), but
gradually get to a more relativistic way of thinking and realize that answers exist that are relative
to a given situation. (Memory technique: "What do you THINK about Ed nuking the rug??"
Think= cognitive dev, Ed Neukrug.)
Robert Kegan - answer✔✔Yet another adult cognitive developmentalist. SPecifically with
interpersonal development. His theory was called the Constructive Model of Development-
people construct reality throughout the lifespan.
What are Piaget's stages of Cognitive Development in order? - answer✔✔Sensorimotor;
Preoperational; Concrete; Formal. These stages must occur in order, but may be experienced at
varying ages.
What is the major critique of Jean Piaget's research? - answer✔✔He spent too much time
observing his own kids, and thus drawing his conclusions from a small, specific, population.
Who formulated the very first intelligence test? - answer✔✔Alfred Binet. In France. Oh la la!
What is a t test? - answer✔✔Also known as the Student's t, it is a statistical test used in formal
experiments to determine if a statistical significance exists between the means of two normally
distributed groups.
Define Conservation. - answer✔✔A substance's mass, weight, and volume remain the same even
if it changes shape. It most likely refers to volume and mass, though. A child who has not
mastered this concept will not have flexible thinking. (Mastered during Piaget's Concrete
Operational stage 7-11 years)
Symbolic Schema - answer✔✔A schema is a system where the child tests out things in the
physical world. An example of a symbolic schema is when a child uses a pie plate as a steering
wheel (because it fits into the schema they have created for "Steering Wheel") This occurs in the
Preoperational Stage.
David Elkind's research supports what Piagetian concept? - answer✔✔Elkind's statistical
research supports Piaget's principle of conservation, with mass being the first and most easily
understood concept for children, followed by weight and volume respectively.
Lawrence Kohlberg expanded on Piaget's conceptualization of what type of development? -
answer✔✔Moral development.
Define Epigenetic - answer✔✔Epigenetic is the biological term borrowed from embryology.
Each stage emerges from the one before it. It is systematic and follows a specific order.
Who is the father of American Behaviorism? - answer✔✔John B. Watson. He coined the term
"behaviorism" in 1912.
define Reversability. - answer✔✔the notion that one can undo an action, hence an object can
return to its initial shape.
Lev Vygotsky disagreed with Piaget's theory on what point(s)? - answer✔✔He did not think that
developmental stages take place naturally, rather the stages unfold due to educational
intervention.
What theorists are considered to have epigenetic theories? - answer✔✔Kohlberg, Erikson, and
Maslow.
Who is the leading theorist of Moral Development? - answer✔✔Lawrence Kohlberg
A 6 year old child in Preoperational thought said, "the rain is following me". This is an example
of what characteristic? - answer✔✔Egocentrism: a child cannot view the world from the vantage
point of another person.
Name Kohlberg's stages of moral development. - answer✔✔Preconventional, Conventional, and
Post-Conventional
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