Exam 2: Theories of Career Development

Trait-Oriented Theories -An assessment model (Career Development Assessment and Counseling [C-DAC] was designed to measure work-role salience, career development status, vocational identity, and occupational self-concepts.

Gelso and Fretz (2001) grouped career development theories as follows:​

Trait-Oriented Theories -Making a career choice is a problem-solving activity.

Trait-Oriented Theories -Traits of career maturity include planning, accepting responsibility, and varied aspects of a preferred vocation.

What are the advantages and disadvantages associated with the trait/factor approach to career counseling?​

Trait-Oriented Theories -Important associations that influence career development can be learned through observations, written materials, and films.

One major hurdle for the individual in the choice model concerns:

Compare the basic assumptions of Super's life span, life space approach with Holland's typology approach.

Contextual interaction during the life span is referred to as what type of perspective?​

As early as the 1940s, who was promoting the idea that career development is a process that unfolds gradually during the life span?

Trait-Oriented Theories -Counselors focus on career as a story or narrative in order to derive meaning from what the client views as important and unimportant.

The career development theory that includes genetic endowments, special abilities, environmental conditions, and events is by the following author:

The assumption that individuals have unique patterns of ability that can be measured and matched with jobs is a key concept of:

Compare trait/factor theories to the general factors of developmental theories.

Trait-Oriented Theories -Determinates of self-concept development are social class, level of intelligence, and experiences with sex typing.

Who developed cognitive information processing (CIP) theory?​

SCCT subscribes to which of the following theories?​

Holland's model of personality types incorporates five key concepts.Which of the following is the correct answer?​

The process by which an individual narrows his or her territory when making a decision about space or acceptable alternatives, is referred to as:

The position that clients create their own way of organizing information and that reality is a matter of perception is the premise of which theory?​