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National Counselor Examination StudyGuide Questions And Correct Answers
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Using motivation from 'within' is known as ______________
A. Inside motivation
B. Interior motivation
C. Intrinsic motivation
D. Idealistic motivation Answer: C. Intrinsic motivation
Which of the following is not an example of extrinsic motivation?
A. Employee performance improves when wages are increased
B. A sleep apnea patient follows a strict sleep hygiene plan
C. Children finish a task more quickly if they are promised candy
D. A student studies more on a test to make the highest grade in the class Answer: B. A sleep apnea
patient follows a strict sleep hygiene plan
Which of the following socioeconomic factor could affect the outcome of therapeutic counseling?
Choose all that apply.
A. Lack of transportation
B. Lack of intrinsic motivation
C. Lack of positive cultural norms for entering therapy
D. None of the above Answer: A. Lack of transportation
C. Lack of positive cultural norms for entering therapy
,What is the meaning of transference/countertransference relationships? Choose all that apply.
A. A client transferring their relationship with another onto the therapist
B. The therapist transferring their relationship with another onto the client
C. Transferring the blame or outcome of behavior onto someone else
D. None of the above Answer: A. A client transferring their relationship with another onto the
therapist
B. The therapist transferring their relationship with another onto the client
What is one instance that might cause a clinician to break the strong code of client confidentiality?
A. Feeling the need to talk
B. Duty to warn
C. When the therapist is going on vacation
D. All of the above Answer: B. Duty to warn
Behavior Theory Answer: comes from the idea that all behaviors are learned and acquired through a
process known as conditioning
What theory is most often associated with the psychologists B.F. Skinner and John B. Watson? Answer:
behavior theory
Behavior Therapy Answer: concentrates on the observable behaviors of a person or group, and
dismisses internal mental states
Key components of Behavior theory: Answer: conditioning, reinforcement, and punishment
What does behavioral theory NOT take into count? Answer: the concepts of emotion or even the
unconscious or subconscious, as these states are subjective rather than objective
,Behaviorists believe that all behavior can be what? Answer: Trained
Classical Conditioning Answer: a process in which a subject comes to respond to a stimulus that was
previously considered neutral, continued exposure to the stimulus will elicit a desired response
Operant Conditioning Answer: a process in which a subject engages in the correct behavior through
the use of both rewards and punishments for a response. The subject learns to associate the behavior
with the outcome
Who created the behavioral psychology theory based on the idea that human beings respond to their
environment; external stimuli, not internal stimuli? Answer: Watson - he believed that all human
beings could change their behavior through classical or operant conditioning.
Who developed the following schedules of reinforcement:
Continuous reinforcement, partial reinforcement (fixed ratio, variable ratio, fixed interval, variable
interval) Answer: B.F. Skinner - behavioral theorist
Continuous reinforcement schedule Answer: reinforcing the desired response every time it occurs
Partial reinforcement schedule Answer: reinforcing a response only part of the time; results in
slower acquisition of a response but much greater resistance to extinction than does continuous
reinforcement
fixed ratio schedule Answer: a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a
predetermined number of responses
What strength of reinforcement does fixed ratio schedule produce? Answer: a high, steady rate of
responses.
, What schedule of reinforcement is: giving a subject a piece of candy after they answer five questions
correctly Answer: Fixed ratio
variable-ratio schedule Answer: a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response after an
unpredictable number of responses
What strength of reinforcement does variable-ratio schedule produce? Answer: High, steady rate of
responding
What schedule of reinforcement is: a slot machine Answer: variable-ratio
fixed-interval schedule Answer: a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a
specified time has elapsed
What schedule of reinforcement is: a subject being rewarded after two minutes of activity and then
after each two minutes of activity? Answer: fixed-interval
variable-interval schedule Answer: a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response at
unpredictable time intervals
What schedule of reinforcement is: rewarding a subject after one minute of activity, three minutes of
activity, six minutes of activity, and so on... Answer: variable-interval
In operant conditioning, reinforcement ______________ behavior and punishment _______________
behavior. Answer: Increases, Decreases
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