NCE Practice Test with explanations questions with complete solutions
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NCE Practice Test with explanations questions with complete solutions
.A ___ occurs when all the members of some set of individuals have an equal chance of being selected.
a. population
b. collection
c. sample of convenience
d. random sample - Answer-d. random sample
.A 45-year old woma...
NCE Practice Test with explanations questions
with complete solutions
.A ___ occurs when all the members of some set of individuals have an equal chance of being selected.
a. population
b. collection
c. sample of convenience
d. random sample - Answer-d. random sample
.A 45-year old woman is returning to the labor market after an absence of nearly 20 years. She does not know
what work she should apply for because she claims she has no skills. Besides dealing with self-concept and
confidence issues, the career counselor will attempt to help the woman identify
a. obsolescence factors
b. 'empty nest' issues
c. a mentor
d. transferable skills - Answer-transferable skills
.A change in the forces in one part of a closed system affects the entire system. This can be accurately applied
to
a. the Holland hexagon
b. a support group
c. force-field analysis
d. Johari window - Answer-d. Johari window
.A collectivistic, group-oriented value system is most likely to explain career behavior of
a. young European immigrants
b. older Native American and Asian American workers
,c. middle-aged white males
d. young and professionally trained white women - Answer-b. older Native American and Asian American
workers
.A counseling group begins with ten individuals. By the end of the third session, two members have dropped.
One of the remaining members knows of an individual who would like to join the group. The member asks the
group leader if this is possible and he tells her no. It is likely that this is a __ group.
a. closed
b. homogeneous
c. working
d. structured - Answer-a. closed
.A counselor educator at a large university studied different counseling modalities for students who came to
the counseling center with relationship/self-esteem problems. There was a waiting list to accommodate all the
students. As a researcher, he was curious whether men or women gained self-esteem differentially whether
they were seen in individual counseling, group counseling, or small psychoeducational class (18 to 20 students).
There was also a possibility of an interaction between gender and the kind of service they received. The
appropriate statistical technique to use in this situation was
a. one-way analysis of variance
b. factorial analysis of variance
c. t-test
d. multivariate analysis of variance - Answer-factorial analysis of variance
.A counselor educator gave the same final exam to two classes studying human growth and development. In
Class A, the final exam scores were normally distributed and in Class B there was definite negative skew in
exam results. The counselor educator would be correct in making the following statement.
a. More students mastered the material in Class A than Class B
b. The mean, median, and mode are the same for Class A students
c. Over 50% of students in Class A scored higher than the mean
d. a different final exam should be used in each class - Answer-b. The mean, median, and mode are the same
for Class A students
, .A counselor is about to begin a short-term group for whom generating insight is NOT an issue. The counselor is
most likely to choose
a. psychoanalytical or TA approaches
b. behavioral or reality approaches
c. client-centered or gestalt approaches
d. adlerian or cognitive approaches - Answer-b. behavioral or reality approaches
.A counselor performs pre-marital counseling in conjunction with a church whose pastor refers couples to her.
Ordinarily, the counselor sees the couple together twice, two times individually, and twice together again for a
total of six sessions. In her second individual session with Tom, the counselor learns that he has not broken off
an affair with another woman, not his prospective marriage partner. An appropriate counselor response is to
a. insist Tom tell his future wife
b. remind Tom of their agreement there would be no secrets
c. refer the couple to a more experienced pre-marital counselor
d. decide to provide Tom more individual counseling sessions - Answer-remind Tom of their agreement there
would be no secrets
.A doctoral student is curious about how bilingual kindergarten children interact verbally with monolingual
children of a different racial group. She decides to study this for her doctoral research. A research method
which may be most appropriate to consider is
a. ethnographic
b. experiemental
c. analogue
d. survey - Answer-Ethnographic
.A group of individuals completed two assessment devices. The correlation between the two sets of scores
was .81. An accurate interpretation of that correlation coefficient is
a. the higher the individuals scored on tone test, the lower they scored on the other.
b. the individuals scored high on both tests, or they scored low on both tests
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