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NCE Practice Test Questions, Questions and answers, rated A+. graded A+ 1. Susie is playing with blocks and is trying to build a tower; she tries but cannot build a tower. Susie's mother helps her build a four-block tower. Later, Susie builds a four-block tower without her mother's help. Acc...

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1. Susie is playing with blocks and is trying to build a tower; she tries but cannot build a

tower. Susie's mother helps her build a four-block tower. Later, Susie builds a four-block

tower without her mother's help. According to Vygotsky, the inability to build the tower on

her own is known as: - ✔✔-The zone of proximal development (this is a range of tasks that are too
difficult for children to do alone, but possible with help)



According to Erickson, when an individual fails to develop a strong sense of identity, the

individual will have troubles with the development of: - ✔✔-Intimacy (individuals who fail to attain a
lower level of development will fail to attain the next higher level).



Which of the following is the correct sequence of stages in Freud's theory of personality

development? - ✔✔-Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital



Jacob's father tells Jacob to clean his room. When Jacob asks why, his father responds,

"Because I said so." The father's response is most representative of which parenting style? - ✔✔-
Authoritarian (uses coercion and psychological control to discipline children)



Harry Harlow used baby monkeys and several different kinds of "surrogate mothers" to

investigate which factors are important in early development and attachment. According to

his findings, baby monkeys: - ✔✔-Preferred a soft terry cloth mother to a wire mesh mother than holds
a bottle.



Which of the following is a myth about suicide in the United States? - ✔✔-Asking someone about suicide
may push that person over the edge.



Cody does what his parents say because he doesn't want to lose his television privileges.

,This is an example of what level in Kohlberg's theory of moral development? - ✔✔-Preconventional (the
individual is most concerned with consequences)



Josie likes to play peek-a-boo with her little brother, Jack. According to Piaget, Jack finds

this game fun because he has acquired ____________, which is one of the primary tasks of the

sensorimotor stage of cognitive development. - ✔✔-Object permanence



The theorist associated with bonding and attachment is: - ✔✔-Bowlby



Henry, a 72-year-old widower, reminisces with his daughter about his life. He talks

about his successes and regrets. This is an example of Erikson's: - ✔✔-Ego integrity stage



When it comes to displaying aggression, girls more often engage in ____________

aggression than boys. - ✔✔-Relational



All of the following are physical characteristics of Down Syndrome EXCEPT: - ✔✔-Large hands and feet



Which of the following statements is true when considering cultural and familial

influences on self-esteem? - ✔✔-An authoritative parenting style usually allows children to have
especially high self-esteem



Research on gay and lesbian couples - ✔✔-They are as dedicated to and as effective at child rearing as
are heterosexual parents.



In the Stanford prison study, what caused the guards to treat the prisoners harshly? - ✔✔-It was the
social context that determined the behaviors of both the guards and the

prisoners. In the Stanford prison study, the setting was so realistic that the participants

became guards and prisoners. Their personal identities were masked by the context of

being in a prison as either a guard or a prisoner

, In the original studies, Milgram and his colleagues found that people were more likely to

disobey under all of the following circumstances EXCEPT when __________. - ✔✔-the victim was in an
adjoining room so the "teacher" heard every sound the victim made



In the Stanford prison simulation, male college students agreed to participate in an

experiment to discover what would happen when they took on the roles of prisoners and

guards. The researchers found that __________. - ✔✔-The individuals who played one role or another
really took on their role. It did not matter how the guards treated them or acted toward them, the fact
that they became like "real" prisoners was the key finding. Individuals who played guards took on
behaviors of "real" guards; and individuals who played prisoners took on behaviors of "real" prisoners.



In what ways do stereotypes distort reality? - ✔✔-Stereotypes distort one's ideas about how one group
is so different from

another group. In reality, the differences between groups are not as extreme as stereotypes

make them out to be.



Jennifer has to choose between spending the evening at home with her parents or

spending the evening babysitting her younger sister. Jennifer does not like either of these

choices. This situation describes an: - ✔✔-Since Jennifer doesn't like either of the choices, this would

be an avoidance-avoidance conflict. It is simply picking between the lesser of two evils.



Connie tells each of her clients that the best way she can help them is to attempt to look

at the world from the client's point of view. This counselor is taking the _________ perspective - ✔✔-
Emic (this view considers that culture matters)



Working with individuals from different cultures requires that the counselor: - ✔✔-Have sensitivity and
knowledge about other cultures.



A high standard of counseling practice when working with diverse populations involves

all of the following EXCEPT: - ✔✔-Treating all clients the same way

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