COPY: Defining Career: Conceptual Evolution

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What is the focus of chapter 7?

  • Career counselling and psychotherapy (correct)
  • Career choice and poverty
  • Career decision-making
  • Career development theories

Which career decision-making model was developed by Gati?

  • Social constructionist model
  • PIC model
  • Expected utility model
  • Sequential elimination model (correct)

Who are the authors of chapter 8?

  • Justin C. and Graham B. Stead
  • Graham B. Stead and Mark B. Watson (correct)
  • Subich and Justin C.
  • Mark B. Watson and Subich

What is the main topic of chapter 9?

<p>Career choice and poverty (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the name of the taxonomy developed by Gati et al.?

<p>Taxonomy of career decision-making difficulties (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the focus of section 7.5.1?

<p>Social constructionist and constructivist counselling approaches (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who published career theories that have become milestones in career psychology?

<p>Ginzberg, Roe and Super (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT a contribution of the theoretical perspectives in career psychology?

<p>Creating employment opportunities for disenfranchised groups (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a limitation of the traditional career psychology worldview?

<p>It is based on a Eurocentric perspective (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a necessary condition for vocational choice to occur, according to Crites (1969)?

<p>The individual must possess alternative career options from which to choose (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the apartheid legislation and consequential racially segregated and regulated social and labour structures in South Africa prior to 1994 undermine?

<p>The ability of disenfranchised groups to utilise social and economic resources (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who provided a critique of the Eurocentric assumptions of traditional career psychology?

<p>Cook, Heppner, and O'Brien (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a contribution of the theoretical perspectives in career psychology to career guidance programmes?

<p>Generating assessment measures and research outcomes (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who further elucidated the career development and/or occupational choice process?

<p>Holland, Tiedeman, Krumboltz, and Bordin (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three steps of career counselling outlined by Parsons in 1909?

<p>A clear understanding of the worker's self, knowledge of task requirements, and reasoning on the relations between the two (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What sparked a national interest in career guidance according to Sharf (2013)?

<p>Parsons' conceptual framework (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the focus of differential psychology?

<p>Identifying personality traits through scientific measurement (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What led to the development of intelligence tests, vocational tests, and personality inventories?

<p>The advent of differential psychology and the psychometric movement (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Super, Crites, Hummel, Mosher, Overstreet, and Warnath (1957) consider a career to be?

<p>A sequence of occupations, jobs, and positions throughout a person's working life (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What provided the impetus for economic and efficient ways to assess, select, and train large numbers of personnel?

<p>Both World Wars (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What stimulated the growth of applied psychology and contributed to the growth of the measurement movement?

<p>The need to provide educational planning and vocational guidance to servicemen re-entering civilian life (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who argued for using the term 'work' instead of 'career'?

<p>Richardson (2012) (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What decade saw the flourishing of new conceptualisations about career development and occupational choice?

<p>1950s (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of this book according to the editors?

<p>To provide direction for counsellors, educationists, organisational psychologists, and researchers (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the suggested definition of 'career' in this book?

<p>The meaning of work-related experiences in relation to an individual's life roles across their lifespan (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who wrote about the development of career guidance and its significance?

<p>Sharf (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why did the editors decide to retain the term 'career'?

<p>Because it has a long history in this field and its continued usage (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the goal of South African career researchers according to the editors?

<p>To look ahead and forge a career psychology that employs appropriate ideas from other countries and the African continent (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is the target audience for this book?

<p>Counsellors, educationists, organisational psychologists, and researchers (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the challenge faced by South African career researchers?

<p>The relatively small number of career practitioners and researchers in the field (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In 1935, how many times more did white people earn than black people in the mines?

<p>11 times (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the main purpose of the Civilised Labour Policy intervention?

<p>To address the poor white problem (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the result of the nationalization of enterprises such as the railways?

<p>Preferential dispensation to less-skilled white people (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Between 1924 and 1933, what was the result of the policy of white affirmative action in the South African Railways?

<p>The number of white people employed increased from 4 760 to 17 783 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the result of the policy of restricted access to education for black people?

<p>Few black people emerged as successful matriculants (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What happened to the first black member of the student representative council (SRC) in 1944?

<p>He was barred from the official SRC photograph (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In which year was the Act limiting access of black people to 'white' universities introduced?

<p>1959 (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the restriction placed on the black medical student who qualified in 1944?

<p>He was not allowed to draw blood from white patients (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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