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National Counselor Examination (NCE) Practice Test 2
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The National Counselor Examination (NCE) is a 200-item multiple-choice examination designed to assess knowledge, skills and abilities determined to be important for providing effective counseling services. The NCE is a requirement for counselor licensure in many U.S. states. It is also one of two examination options for the National Certified Counselor (NCC) certification. Education Requirements: You must hold a counseling degree with at least 48 semester hours or 72 quarter hours of graduate-level coursework from a CACREP-accredited program or a counseling program administered by a... Show more
National Counselor Examination (NCE) Practice Test 2
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1. The counselor is assisting with a research study in which half of the subjects are given medication and the other half given sugar pills. Neither group knows which pills contain medication, yet many who receive the sugar pills repeatedly report positive effects from taking them. What would account for this?
2. The Code of Ethics is:
3. ___________________ is a disorder of thought, unlike _________________, which is a disorder of mood.
4. A client with catatonic schizophrenia has sat in the same chair with the right arm extended for an hour after the phlebotomist extended the arm for a blood draw. This is an example of which of the following?
5. True variance or the coefficient of determination is obtained by:
6. The counselor is working with a client who has just been admitted to a rehabilitation facility for treatment of alcohol addiction. Within how many hours is the client likely to begin exhibiting signs of withdrawal?
7. One family structure that is on the rise in the United States is the:
8. The test created by David Wechsler is what type of test?
9. Josie likes to play peek-a-boo with her little brother, Jack. According to Piaget, Jack finds this game fun because he has acquired ____________, which is one of the primary tasks of the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development.
10. B.F. Skinner believed that punishment was:
11. If a client has a smoking habit, Sigmund Freud might say he is:
12. Which of the following is a good example of a standardized test?
13. Robert Carkhuff categorized counselors’ responses as all EXCEPT which of the following?
14. Convergent validation and discriminant validation occur within what type of validity?
15. An appropriate primary intervention for clients at risk of emotional illness resulting from trauma, such as an act of violence, is to do which of the following?
16. Which of these is NOT generally identified as a circumstance in which testing may be useful?
17. If a mental health client is making statements that seem to be based on delusional thinking, such as 'My doctor is constantly flirting with me,' the best way to express doubt is by which of the following statements?
18. Paradoxical intention, implosive therapy, and thought stopping are all techniques used by _____________ counselors.
19. A 22-year-old female is receiving haloperidol for schizoaffective disorder. She was admitted to the psychiatric unit with delusional thinking, rapid disorganized speech, irritability, and lethargy. She has begun slapping at his face repeatedly. Which assessment tool is most indicated?
20. If a client expresses great anxiety and fears about an upcoming meeting with her employer, and the counselor asks, 'What is the worst thing that can happen?', which of the following approaches is the counselor utilizing?
21. In contrast to a homogeneous group, a heterogeneous group:
22. Which of the following is a warning sign that a counselor is developing a relationship with a client that is too personal?
23. Altruism may be explained by:
24. Which group of students would be least likely to seek out career counseling?
25. A(n) _____________ schedule of reinforcement is the most difficult to extinguish.