38 Questions
What is the focus of chapter 7?
Career counselling and psychotherapy
Which career decision-making model was developed by Gati?
Sequential elimination model
Who are the authors of chapter 8?
Graham B. Stead and Mark B. Watson
What is the main topic of chapter 9?
Career choice and poverty
What is the name of the taxonomy developed by Gati et al.?
Taxonomy of career decision-making difficulties
What is the focus of section 7.5.1?
Social constructionist and constructivist counselling approaches
Who published career theories that have become milestones in career psychology?
Ginzberg, Roe and Super
Which of the following is NOT a contribution of the theoretical perspectives in career psychology?
Creating employment opportunities for disenfranchised groups
What is a limitation of the traditional career psychology worldview?
It is based on a Eurocentric perspective
What is a necessary condition for vocational choice to occur, according to Crites (1969)?
The individual must possess alternative career options from which to choose
What did the apartheid legislation and consequential racially segregated and regulated social and labour structures in South Africa prior to 1994 undermine?
The ability of disenfranchised groups to utilise social and economic resources
Who provided a critique of the Eurocentric assumptions of traditional career psychology?
Cook, Heppner, and O'Brien
What is a contribution of the theoretical perspectives in career psychology to career guidance programmes?
Generating assessment measures and research outcomes
Who further elucidated the career development and/or occupational choice process?
Holland, Tiedeman, Krumboltz, and Bordin
What are the three steps of career counselling outlined by Parsons in 1909?
A clear understanding of the worker's self, knowledge of task requirements, and reasoning on the relations between the two
What sparked a national interest in career guidance according to Sharf (2013)?
Parsons' conceptual framework
What was the focus of differential psychology?
Identifying personality traits through scientific measurement
What led to the development of intelligence tests, vocational tests, and personality inventories?
The advent of differential psychology and the psychometric movement
What did Super, Crites, Hummel, Mosher, Overstreet, and Warnath (1957) consider a career to be?
A sequence of occupations, jobs, and positions throughout a person's working life
What provided the impetus for economic and efficient ways to assess, select, and train large numbers of personnel?
Both World Wars
What stimulated the growth of applied psychology and contributed to the growth of the measurement movement?
The need to provide educational planning and vocational guidance to servicemen re-entering civilian life
Who argued for using the term 'work' instead of 'career'?
Richardson (2012)
What decade saw the flourishing of new conceptualisations about career development and occupational choice?
1950s
What is the purpose of this book according to the editors?
To provide direction for counsellors, educationists, organisational psychologists, and researchers
What is the suggested definition of 'career' in this book?
The meaning of work-related experiences in relation to an individual's life roles across their lifespan
Who wrote about the development of career guidance and its significance?
Sharf
Why did the editors decide to retain the term 'career'?
Because it has a long history in this field and its continued usage
What is the goal of South African career researchers according to the editors?
To look ahead and forge a career psychology that employs appropriate ideas from other countries and the African continent
Who is the target audience for this book?
Counsellors, educationists, organisational psychologists, and researchers
What is the challenge faced by South African career researchers?
The relatively small number of career practitioners and researchers in the field
In 1935, how many times more did white people earn than black people in the mines?
11 times
What was the main purpose of the Civilised Labour Policy intervention?
To address the poor white problem
What was the result of the nationalization of enterprises such as the railways?
Preferential dispensation to less-skilled white people
Between 1924 and 1933, what was the result of the policy of white affirmative action in the South African Railways?
The number of white people employed increased from 4 760 to 17 783
What was the result of the policy of restricted access to education for black people?
Few black people emerged as successful matriculants
What happened to the first black member of the student representative council (SRC) in 1944?
He was barred from the official SRC photograph
In which year was the Act limiting access of black people to 'white' universities introduced?
1959
What was the restriction placed on the black medical student who qualified in 1944?
He was not allowed to draw blood from white patients
This quiz explores the changing concept of a career, from its early definitions to its modern interpretations, highlighting the sequence of occupations and roles played throughout a person's lifetime.
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