Exam 2: Trait and Factor, Developmental, Learning, and Cognitive Theories

Holland presented his theory of career choice, primarily a matching or trait-and-factor approach, in which the underlying supposition was that individuals choose situations and environments that satisfy their personality orientations.

According to Dawis and Lofquist's TWA, one's personality style is composed of celerity (speed of initiating environmental interaction), pace (activity level of interaction), rhythm (pattern of interaction), and endurance (sustainability of interaction).

According to Super's theory, people are satisfied in their work choice to the degree that they are able to "fulfill life roles."

Match the following: -Cognitive Information Processing (CIP)

The CASVE cycle is a sequential developmental path.

Match the following: -Contextual approaches

Which is not one of the four primary factors in both SLTCDM and SLCT?

In SCCT, learning experiences shape self-efficacy beliefs and outcome expecta- tions, and are influenced by factors such as educational opportunity and family context.

What is not part of the three-pronged trait-and-factor approach?

According to TWA, one's personality style is composed of celerity, pace, rhythm, and endurance.

Super's Life Career Rainbow (Super, 1980) represents an individual's overall development from birth to death and includes six major Life Roles.

The Social Learning Theory of Career Decision Making (SLTCDM) recognized the importance of cognitive processes and behavior in career decision making including the influence of reinforcement and learning on the career development and choice processes.

According to Krumboltz, "a good theory is a simplified representation of some domain constructed so that users can ask questions about that domain with an increased probability of receiving valuable answers."

Super's Life Career Rainbow includes the nine major life roles. Which one isnot one of those life roles?

Like developmental theories, trait-and-factor approaches provide a framework for understanding the unfolding process of career and career choice over the lifespan.

Differentiation indicates a crystallization of interests and is the extent to which the levels of the type codes differ.

Super's Processing Stage includes crystallizing, specifying, and implementing.

Theories of "embedded career" include Contextualism, the Ecological Approach, and Sociological Theories.

Work adjustment happens when an individual improves or maintains his or her fit or correspondence with the work environment.

Linda Gottfredson is one of the few theoreticians who have presented a theory on how childhood influences career development and career choice.