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NCE Exam: Lifestyle and Career Development. Top exam Questions with accurate answers, rated A+ Over ___% of marriages are dual-earner marriages. - ✔✔-54 (Around 60% when looking at marriages... with children. In 1950, it was 20.4%.) Studies suggest how many workers snare a job based on chance factors? - ✔✔-1 in 5 What ____% of all college students have career difficulties? - ✔✔-50 (of all college students) What are 're-entry women'? - ✔✔-Women who have made the transition from homemaker to jobs outside the home. Displaced homemaker - ✔✔-A woman with children who was a homemaker but is currently in need of work to support her family. What is meant by the term 'glass ceiling'? - ✔✔-Suggests women are limited in terms of how far they can advance in the workforce; is a form of occupational gender role stereotyping that can limit a woman's careers. Women now compromise _____% of the workforce; approximately ____ ______ workers. - ✔✔-46%, 69 million John O. Crites - ✔✔-Feels the need for career counseling exceeds the need for therapy. Victor Vroom's Motivation and Management Expectancy Theory - ✔✔-suggests employee performance is influenced by: valance (rewards such as money, promotion, or satisfaction), expectancy (what am I capable of doing?), and instrumentality (will management come through with promised rewards?) Vocational guidance - ✔✔-A developmental and educational process within a school system. Career counseling - ✔✔-A therapeutic service for adults with occupational goals that is performed outside the educational setting. A Bachelor's degree - ✔✔-on average, this boosts yearly income by $10,000 over that of worker with a high school diploma. ____% of workers have a high school diploma. - ✔✔-75% "Changing View of Work" - ✔✔-indicates that in the past, work was seen as drudgery, while today it is viewed as a vehicle to express our identity, self-esteem, and status. Which ethnic group has the highest % of Bachelor's degrees? - ✔✔-Asians followed by Caucasians, African Americans, and Hispanics Leisure time - ✔✔-is time away from work where the individual has freedom to choice what he/she would like to do. Career is sometimes defined as - ✔✔-the total work one does in a lifetime plus leisure. Avocation - ✔✔-A leisure activity one engages in for pleasure rather than money. Dual-career families - ✔✔-have less leisure time than single-career families. (Note the up-and-coming specialty, "leisure counseling") Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - ✔✔-states women should have equal work opportunities and equal job pay. 80% Four-fifths Rule - ✔✔-Used to determine discrimination selection processes. The hiring rate for minorities is divided by the hiring rate for non-minorities, and the result must be 80% or greater. Adverse impact - ✔✔-occurs if the quotient from the Four-fifths Rule is less than 80%. Differential validity - ✔✔-a test is valid for one group, but less or totally invalid for another Trait-and-factor theory - ✔✔-Assumes through testing, one's personality can be matched to an occupation geared toward those traits. -Considered 1st major and most durable theory of career choice. (Computer-based career programs often adhere to this model.) Profile matching - ✔✔-A job candidate's personality or skills are matched to that of successful workers. Elementary school counselors - ✔✔-The only organized profession to work with individuals from a preventative and developmental viewpoint. Trait-and-factor model - ✔✔-Matches worker and work environment (job factors), and has the viewpoint there is one 'best' career for a person. (Also known as actuarial or matching approach. Classified as structural or grounded in 'differential psychology' (i.e., study of individual differences). Edmund Griffith Williamson - ✔✔-Chief spokesperson for Minnesota Viewpoint, a group that expanded upon Parson's model of career counseling, and which transcended vocational issues. Purportedly used the Minnesota Occupational Rating Scales. What population are the most popular career theories based on? - ✔✔-Middle-class or upper middleclass white males who are heterosexual and not disabled. Parsons, Williamson, and Patterson - ✔✔-Three big names in trait-and-factor theory. Assumed a person's traits can be measured so accurately that the choice of occupation need only be a one-time process. Actuarial approach (also trait-and-factor model) - ✔✔-Asserts testing is an important part of the process, and a counselor can match the person with the appropriate job. Fails to take into account an individual's changes through their lifespan. Parson's 3 steps to implement trait-and-factor model - ✔✔-Knowledge of self, aptitudes, and interests Knowledge of jobs, including advantages/disadvantages Matching the individual with the w [Show More]

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