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What does CACREP stand for? - ✔✔-the Council for the Accreditation and Counseling Related
Educational Programs
What does CCE stand for? - ✔✔-
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NCE and CPCE Study Guide Questions
and answers. 100% Accurate, graded A+
What does CACREP stand for? - ✔✔-the Council for the Accreditation and Counseling Related
Educational Programs
What does CCE stand for? - ✔✔-Center for Credentialing and Education, inc
What does REBT stand for and who is the main theorist associated with it? - ✔✔-Rational Emotive
Behavioral Therapy; Ellis.
Name Freud's Psychosexual stages of development. - ✔✔-Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latent, and Genital.
(Mnemonic device: Oh, Anthony, Please Let's Go!)
Describe Erik Erikson's stages. - ✔✔-Erik Erikson is an Ego psychologist and a disciple of Freud. His 8
stages focus on social relationships, therefore they are called psychosocial. Each stage has a crisis that
must be overcome in order to move on to the next stage. His stages are Trust v. Mistrust; Autonomy v.
Shame/doubt; Industry v. Inferiority; Initiative vs. Guilt; Identity v. Role confusion; Intimacy v. Isolation;
Generativity vs. Stagnation; Integrity vs. Despair. (Mnemonic device: The Air In Iceland Is Icy, Greenland
Isn't.)
define psychometric. - ✔✔-pertaining to mental testing and measurement
define psychodiagnostic - ✔✔-the study of personality through interpretation of behavior and nonverbal cues; or labeling a client in a diagnostic category.
define psychopharmacology - ✔✔-the study of the effects drugs have on psychological functions.
What is the id? - ✔✔-the basic instinct principle in Freudian theory. It is the seat of aggression and
sexual impulse. It is devoid of logic and time orientation. It is chaotic and bodily focused.
What is the ego? - ✔✔-this is the reality principle in Freudian theory. It indicates power of reasoning and
control over behavior. It helps keep the impulses of the id in check.
What is the superego? - ✔✔-the superego is the moralistic and idealistic principle in the Freudian
theory.
Which group of theorists believe "if you can't measure it, it doesn't exist"? - ✔✔-Behaviorists. They
focus on O.O.B. The observable, objective behaviors. (My AP psych teacher in HS called it the O.O.B.
tampon. gross, but it helped me remember it!)
Who is the only psychoanalyst with a developmental theory that covered the entire lifespan? - ✔✔-Erik
Erikson's Psychosocial stages covered the entire lifespan. Each stage has a crisis or turning point.
What theory is A. A. Brill associated with? - ✔✔-Career theory
Milton H. Erickson is associated with... - ✔✔-Brief psychotherapy and hypnosis.
What field is Jean Piaget associated with? - ✔✔-Cognitive Child Development
Who is Jay Haley and what is the nature of his contribution to counseling? - ✔✔-Haley is most famous
for his work on strategic and problem-solving therapy, more specifically with his use of the paradox
technique. He also studied with Milton Erickson.
Arnold Lazarus - ✔✔-He is a known behavioral therapist who worked specifically with methods of
desensitization and phobias. He is most associated with Multimodal Therapy.
William Perry - ✔✔-He is known for his work in adult cognitive development, specifically with college
students. He worked a lot with the concept of "dualistic thinking" among college students, where
everything is either black or white. (Memory technique: think of Katy Perry's song Hot and Cold to
associate Perry with dualism.)
Ed Neukrug - ✔✔-Also a cognitive developmentalist. His work is similar to Perry's. He noted that college
students initially think that their professor has all the answers (dualistic), but gradually get to a more
relativistic way of thinking and realize that answers exist that are relative to a given situation. (Memory
technique: "What do you THINK about Ed nuking the rug??" Think= cognitive dev, Ed Neukrug.)
Robert Kegan - ✔✔-Yet another adult cognitive developmentalist. SPecifically with interpersonal
development. His theory was called the Constructive Model of Development- people construct reality
throughout the lifespan.
What are Piaget's stages of Cognitive Development in order? - ✔✔-Sensorimotor; Preoperational;
Concrete; Formal. These stages must occur in order, but may be experienced at varying ages.
What is the major critique of Jean Piaget's research? - ✔✔-He spent too much time observing his own
kids, and thus drawing his conclusions from a small, specific, population.
Who formulated the very first intelligence test? - ✔✔-Alfred Binet. In France. Oh la la!
What is a t test? - ✔✔-Also known as the Student's t, it is a statistical test used in formal experiments to
determine if a statistical significance exists between the means of two normally distributed groups.
Define Conservation. - ✔✔-A substance's mass, weight, and volume remain the same even if it changes
shape. It most likely refers to volume and mass, though. A child who has not mastered this concept will
not have flexible thinking. (Mastered during Piaget's Concrete Operational stage 7-11 years)
Symbolic Schema - ✔✔-A schema is a system where the child tests out things in the physical world. An
example of a symbolic schema is when a child uses a pie plate as a steering wheel (because it fits into
the schema they have created for "Steering Wheel") This occurs in the Preoperational Stage.
David Elkind's research supports what Piagetian concept? - ✔✔-Elkind's statistical research supports
Piaget's principle of conservation, with mass being the first and most easily understood concept for
children, followed by weight and volume respectively.
Lawrence Kohlberg expanded on Piaget's conceptualization of what type of development? - ✔✔-Moral
development.
Define Epigenetic - ✔✔-Epigenetic is the biological term borrowed from embryology. Each stage
emerges from the one before it. It is systematic and follows a specific order.
Who is the father of American Behaviorism? - ✔✔-John B. Watson. He coined the term "behaviorism" in
1912.
define Reversability. - ✔✔-the notion that one can undo an action, hence an object can return to its
initial shape.
Lev Vygotsky disagreed with Piaget's theory on what point(s)? - ✔✔-He did not think that
developmental stages take place naturally, rather the stages unfold due to educational intervention.
What theorists are considered to have epigenetic theories? - ✔✔-Kohlberg, Erikson, and Maslow.
Who is the leading theorist of Moral Development? - ✔✔-Lawrence Kohlberg
A 6 year old child in Preoperational thought said, "the rain is following me". This is an example of what
characteristic? - ✔✔-Egocentrism: a child cannot view the world from the vantage point of another
person.
Name Kohlberg's stages of moral development. - ✔✔-Preconventional, Conventional, and PostConventional
The Post-Conventional stage is also called the.... - ✔✔-Personal Integrity, or Morality of Self-Accepted
Principles level
What is the Heinz Story designed to help assess? - ✔✔-It is part of Kohlberg's morality development
model and it is designed to help assess the level of morality a person has achieved by their reactions and
reasonings based on the Heinz scenario.
Who is the father of Analytic Psychology? - ✔✔-Carl Jung
Who is the father of Psychoanalysis? - ✔✔-Sigmund Freud
What is biofeedback? - ✔✔-Biofeedback is a technique utilized to help individuals learn to control bodily
processes more effectively. The most ground-breaking work in this area occurred at the Menninger
Clinic in Kansas, even though it is a traditional psychoanalytic foothold.
From who's work do we get the term "identity crisis"? - ✔✔-Erik Erikson, because his psychosocial
stages involve a crisis in order to proceed to the next stage.
RS factors - ✔✔-RS stands for Religious and Spiritual. RS factors are often examined by counselors who
are attempting to integrate the practice of "positive psychology" into their work.
What is Positive Psychology? - ✔✔-a term coined by Abraham Maslow (humanistic perspective) and
popularized by Martin Segliman, refers to the study of human strengths such as joy, wisdom, altruism,
ability to love, and happiness.
What concept is Martin Segliman known for? - ✔✔-The concept of Learned Helplessness- in the cases of
abuse or maltreatment, humans and animals can be trained to think "there is no way out" even if one is
clearly present.
What branch of psychology is Alfred Adler known for? - ✔✔-he is the founder of Individual Psychology,
and stresses the inferiority complex.
What are the charateristics of Kohlberg's Preconventional stage of moral development? - ✔✔-child
responds to consequences. Reward and punishment influence behavior.
What are the charateristics of Kohlberg's Conventional stage? - ✔✔-individual wants to meet the
standards of family, society, and the nation.
What are the characteristics of Kohlberg's Postconventional stage? - ✔✔-(also known as self-accepted
stage) individual is concerned with universal, ethical principles of justice, dignity, and equality of human
rights, where the common good is a key issue. (He did not believe that most people reached this level)
Approximately how many middle class urban males did Kohlberg think would reach the
Postconventional level? - ✔✔-under 40%.
What are some examples of people believed to have reached the Postconventional stage of moral
development? - ✔✔-Ghandi, Socrates, Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is the first stage of Erikson's Psychosocial stages? - ✔✔-Trust vs. Mistrust (birth to 1 year)
Harry Stack Sullivan - ✔✔-postulated the stages of infancy, childhood, juvenile, preadolescence, early
adolescence, and late adolescence.
what is Psychiatry of Interpersonal Relations? - ✔✔-similar to Erikson, biological determination is seen
as less important than interpersonal issues and the soci-cultural demands of society
A person who has mastered Erikson's first 7 stages would then enter into which stage? - ✔✔-Integrity
vs. Despair (60-death) Integrity implies the individual is mostly satisfied with life and feels it has been
worthwhile.
What is a Periodic Fugue State? - ✔✔-an individual experiencing amnesia leaves home, often with the
intention of changing jobs and identities. (I have no idea why we would ever need to know this, unless
we decided to quit counseling, move to Hollywood, and become screen writers...)
Counter-Conditioning - ✔✔-A behavioristic technique in which the goal is to weaken or eliinate a
learned response by pairing it with a stronger or desirable response. (systematic desensitization by
Arnold Lazarus is a good example)
Good boy/good girl orientation - ✔✔-is a sublevel of the conventional stage of moral development in
which a person is concerned with approbation and the ability to please others in order to achieve
recognition.
Hedonism - ✔✔-a concept that arises in the preconventional stage of moral development. the child
thinks, "if I am nice to others, others will be nice and give me what I want".
What is the Zone of Proximal Development - ✔✔-pioneered by Lev Vygotsky; describes the difference
between a child's performance on a task without the aid of a teacher, and his performance with the aid
of a teacher. (natural capacity vs. capacity through lear
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