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Trait-and-factor-matching theory - ✔✔-relies on tests and assessments to match traits, aptitude, and
interests with a given occupatio
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Trait-and-factor-matching theory - ✔✔-relies on tests and assessments to match traits, aptitude, and
interests with a given occupation
John Holland's six personality and six work environments career typology - ✔✔-visually depicted with a
hexagon that includes six personality types/work environments: realistic, investigative, artistic, social,
enterprising, and conventional (RIASEC); congruence between the person and job is emphasized
Donald Super's self-concept and developmental stage theory (life span, life-space model) - ✔✔-selfconcept, as well as career/vocational maturity, influences one's career throughout the life span
Anna Roe's early childhood needs-theory approach - ✔✔-vocational choice is related to personality
development at a young age
John Krumboltz's learning theory of career counseling (LTCC) - ✔✔-four factors can used to simplify the
career development process: genetic endowment and unique abilities, environmental conditions and life
events, learning experiences, task approach skills
Ginzberg, Ginsburg, Axelrad, and Herma's developmental appraoch (Ginzberg Group) - ✔✔-created by
an economist, a psychiatrist, a sociologist, and a psychologist; developmental stages are: ages 11 and
under (fantasy), ages 11-17 early adolescence (tentative), and age 17 into early adulthood (realistic)
Mark Savicka's career construction postmodern theory - ✔✔-heavily rooted in narrative therapy in
which the client's life is viewed as a story he or she has constructed, and intervention focuses on
recurring themes to re-author the story
Social cognitive counseling theory (SCCT) - ✔✔-focuses on how one's belief system impacts career
choice
Linda Gottfredson's theory of cicumscription and compromise - ✔✔-phase one: rule out certain jobs not
acceptable for gender, stereotypes, and social class; phase two: change mind, major etc. if career path is
not truly realistic
Edgar H. Schein's eight career anchors theory - ✔✔-career anchors manifest approximately 5 or 10 years
after a person begins work and guide future career choices; based on self-concept, abilities, and what
the person is good at; autonomy/independence, security/stability, technical/functional competence,
general managerial competence, entrepreneurial creativity, service/dedication to a cause, pure
challenge, and lifestyle
Glass ceiling phenomenon - ✔✔-suggests that women are limited in terms of how far they can advance
in the work of work
Glass ceiling effect - ✔✔-form of occupational sex-role stereotyping that can limit women's careers
Victor Vroom's motivation and management expectancy theory - ✔✔-an employee's performance is
influenced by valence (will the work provide rewards such as money, a promotion, or satisfaction?),
expectancy (what the person feel he or she is capable of doing?), and instrumentality (will the manager
actually give the employee the promised reward such as a raise?)
Guidance - ✔✔-a developmental and educational process within a school system
Career counseling - ✔✔-a therapeutic services for adults performed outside an educational setting
EEOC - ✔✔-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Edmund Griffith Williamson - ✔✔-chief spokesperson for the Minnesota Viewpoint which expanded
upon Parson's model to create a theory of counseling which transcended vocational issues
Is the trait-and-factor model grounded in differential psychology? - ✔✔-YES; the assumption in this
approach is that human beings are rational
Parsons three steps to implement the trait-and-factor approach - ✔✔-knowledge of the self and
aptitudes and interests, knowledge of jobs, including the advantages and disadvantages of them, and
matching the individual with the work
Anna Roe suggested a personality approach to career choice
a. based on cognitive-behavioral therapy
b. based on a model of strict operant conditioning
c. based on the premise that a job satisfies an unconscious need
d. based on the work of Pavlov - ✔✔-c. based on the premise that a job satisfies an unconscious need
Roe was the first career specialist to utilize a two-dimensional system of occupational classification
utilizing
a. unconscious and preconscious
b. fields and levels
c. yin and yang
d. transactional analysis nomenclature - ✔✔-b. fields and levels
Roe's 8 occupational fields - ✔✔-service, business contact, organizations, technology, outdoor, science,
general culture, and arts/entertainment
Roe's 6 levels of occupational skill - ✔✔-professional and managerial 1, profession and managerial 2,
semiprofessional/small business, skilled, semiskilled, and unskilled
Roe's theory relies on Maslow's hierarchy of needs in the sense that in terms of career choice
a. lower-order needs take precedence over higher-order needs
b. self-actualization needs take precedence over lower-order needs
c. all needs are given equal consideration
d. the need for self-actualization would overpower a physical need - ✔✔-a. lower-order needs take
precedence over higher-order needs
Some support for Roe's theory comes from
a. the BDI
b. the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV)
c. the Rorschach and the TAT
d. the gestalt therapy movement - ✔✔-c. the Rorschach and the TAT
In terms of genetics, Roe's theory would assert that
a. genetics plays a very minor role in career choice
b. genetics helps to determine intelligence and education , and hence this influences one's career choice
c. genetics are important while upbringing is not
d. genetics are important while the unconscious is not - ✔✔-b. genetics helps to determine intelligence
and education , and hence this influences one's career choice
Job - ✔✔-refers to a given position or similar positions within an organization
Occupation - ✔✔-broader and refers to similar jobs occupied via different people in different settings
(psychotherapists)
Career - ✔✔-broadest category; depicts a persons lifetime positions plus leisure
Roe recognized the role of the unconscious mind in terms of career choice. Another theorist who
emphasized the unconscious processes in this are of study was
a. Krumboltz
b. Schein
c. Super
d. Bordin - ✔✔-d. Bordin
Edwin Bordin felt that difficulties related to job choice
a. are indicative of neurotic symptoms
b. are indicative of inappropriate reinforcers in the environment
c. are related to a lack of present moment awareness
d. are the result of irrational cognitions - ✔✔-a. are indicative of neurotic symptoms
Today, the most popular approach to career choice reflects the work of
a. Anne Roe
b. Donald Super
c. John Holland
d. Jane Loevinger - ✔✔-c. John Holland
Social (Holland) - ✔✔-prefers to solve problems using interpersonal skills and feelings
Enterprising (Holland) - ✔✔-likes to sell to others or perform leadership tasks; tends to value power and
status
Realistic (Holland) - ✔✔-likes machines
Investigative (Holland) - ✔✔-likes to his or her way through a problem
Conventional (Holland) - ✔✔-values conformity, structure, rules, and feels comfortable in a subordinate
role
Holland relied on a personality theory of career choice. Robert Hoppock's theory, based on the work of
__________ is also considered a personality approach.
a. Donald Super
b. Robert Rosenthal
c. David Wechsler
d. Henry Murray - ✔✔-d. Henry Murray
Henry Murray - ✔✔-created the "needs-press" theory and the TAT projective test
Developmental career theorists view career choice as an ongoing or so-called longitudinal process rather
than a single decision made at one point in time. The pioneer theorists in this area - who were the first
to forsake the matching models - were
a. Super and Roe
b. Hoppock and Holland
c. Ginzberg, Ginsburg, Axelrad, and Herma
d. Brill and Bordin - ✔✔-c. Ginzberg, Ginsburg, Axelrad, and Herma
Super's life-span theory emphasizes _________ life stages.
a. five
b. four
c. three
d. nine - ✔✔-a. five
Super's life spans - ✔✔-Growth (birth to age 14), Exploration (ages 15-24), Establishment (ages 22-44),
Maintenance (ages 44-64) and Decline (65+)
Research into the phenomenon of career maturity reflects the work of
a. John Crites
b. Anna Roe
c. John Holland
d. Nancy Schlossberg - ✔✔-a. John Crites
Nancy Schlossberg - ✔✔-adult career development; suggested five noteworthy factors: behavior in the
adult years is primarily determined by social rather than biological factors, behavior can either be a
function of one's life stage or one's age at other time, sex differences are actually more powerful than
are or stage differences, adults continually experience transitions which require adaptation and selfassessment, identity, intimacy, and generativity are recurrin
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