GEB3035 Test Revision Questions with
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Personal Career Theory (PCT) - ANSWER Holland
Holland - ANSWER Developed a "typological" theory about personality type and
matching environmental groups.
Holland's RIASEC theory! Continues to produce a great amount of research on how people
choose occupations.
Interest inventory, the Self-Directed Search.
Super - ANSWER Began to introduce new ways of thinking about career development in the
early 1950s.
Introduced the life/career rainbow because he believed that nine life roles were a good way
for us to understand the concept of career.
Life/Career Rainbow - ANSWER Individuals occupy one or more of the 9 life roles at different
times throughout their lifetime. In addition, the intensity or strength of each role varies over
time for each person.
Child, student, leisurite, citizen, worker, annuitant/pensioner, spouse or partner, homemaker,
and parent or grandparent.
Drs. Gary Peterson, James Sampson, and Robert Reardon wrote... - ANSWER Career
Development and Services: A Cognitive Approach.
,A new way of thinking about career development.
Cognition - ANSWER The way we think or how we process information in our heads.
CIP theory-based approach - ANSWER Cognitive Information Processing.
Based on ideas about how our brain takes in, codes, stores, and uses information and
knowledge in career problem solving and decision-making.
Career problem characteristics - ANSWER 1. Can be defined in terms of a gap between what
exists and what we want. It's the difference between what's happening and what, ideally,
we want to happen.
2. Career problems are often complex and involve feelings; they present ambiguous cues or
signals. The complexity comes from conflicting desires and motives, pressures from others,
and feelings such as worry and embarrassment.
3. The solution to career problems often involves multiple options, not just a single correct
choice. Each option seems to affect others, interdependently, so the best solution is typically a
combination of options.
4. There is almost always some uncertainty about the outcome of the choice. No chosen
solution to a career problem comes with a guarantee for success and satisfaction.
5. A decision about a major career problem almost always leads to another set of problems
that are not fully known beforehand.
CIP Theory - ANSWER Provides a simple, effective way to help you learn how to solve
career problems and make career decisions.
Pyramid of Information Processing Self-knowledge domain - ANSWER Knowing about
my values, my interests, my skills, and related personal characteristics.
Option knowledge domain - ANSWER Understanding about specific occupations, college
majors, and/or jobs and how they can be organized.
,Bottom of pyramid - ANSWER Can be likened to the data files stores in the memory of a
computer. Enable us to work with and process information in career-decision making.
Decision Skills Domain (MIDDLE) - ANSWER Knowing how I make decisions/second level of
the pyramid.
Likened to the computer programs that use facts and data stored in the memory and files of the
computer.
CASVE CYCLE!
Executive Processing Domain (TOP) - ANSWER Like the job-control function that tells the
computer in what order the programs in the second level of the pyramid are to be run.
PYRAMID - ANSWER Knowing about myself/Knowing about my options --> Knowing how I
make decisions --> Thinking about my decision making
The CASVE Cycle - ANSWER Communication, Analysis, Synthesis, Valuing, Execution
C - Communication - ANSWER Knowing I need to make a choice
When we receive information that communicates a gap between the ideal and
current situation.
Internal or external means/emotions VS. a note from a dean to declare a major, questions
from family members, etc.
A - Analysis - ANSWER Understanding myself, options, decision-making, and thoughts
Do not act impulsively
Learn everything possible about all the factors that have led to creating the gap
, S - Synthesis - ANSWER Expanding and narrowing my options
Identify the courses of action to remove the problem or gap
EXPANDING - synthesis elaboration
NARROWING - synthesis crystallization
V - Valuing - ANSWER Prioritizing my options
Choosing an occupation, job or field of study phase
1st - evaluate each option in terms of how it affects you and important people in your life.
2nd - ranking or prioritizing the options carried forward from the synthesis phase.
E - Execution - ANSWER Implementing my first choice
Converting thoughts into action through the formulation and implementation of an action
plan Planning, trying out, and applying.
C - 2 - ANSWER Knowing I made a good choice
Most essential parts of self-knowledge in career decisions? - ANSWER Values, Interests, Skills
Values - ANSWER Beginning in the 1950s, Super, Katz, etc. began to study how work
values might be involved in career choices.
Values are a factor in career decision making and are related to levels of later job satisfaction.
Something that is important or desirable to you.