Deck 7: Using Information and Technology

Question 1

Only government systems are required to have accurate, reliable, and up-to-date information.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The most important role a counselor can play is to find career information and deliver it to the client.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Counselors need to spend time exploring any career information delivery system before they offer it to clients.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Most research suggests that those born before the digital age will be unlikely to adapt to new technologies in their career search and development.

Question 5

Career information delivery systems and occupational information never address individuals' values.

Question 6

According to, the perceived usefulness of a technology and a belief that a tech- nology is easy to use influence intentions.

A) Digital natives
B) Public-access technology (PAT) experts
C) The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) competencies
D) The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)

Question 7

Before offering to provide technology-assisted distance counseling (TDC) for clients, a licensed counselor will want to do each of the following except:

A) Recruit several current clients to participate in a pilot study of the process
B) Attend training to become a Distance Credentialed Counselor
C) Determine client needs that will best be met by using TDC
D) Develop an informed consent and orientation protocol for clients

Question 8

When using technology-assisted distance counseling, client confidentiality:

A) Is not an issue, since the counselor is not meeting in person with the client
B) Applies only to spoken content, not text or video content
C) Is a priority, since the counselor is responsible for ensuring confidentiality
D) Is the client's responsibility

Question 9

In selecting a career information delivery system, the first step for the counselor is to:

A) Assess the number of occupations included in the database
B) Identify client needs
C) Determine the availability of Holland codes in the system
D) Separate for-profit from not-for-profit systems

Question 10

In using career information to help clients, a primary responsibility of the counselor is:

A) To present sorted information that the counselor believes to be most useful
B) To find and describe torus attractors
C) To explore the client's psychological growth
D) To provide the client with knowledge of resources and tools forself-analysis

Question 11

Match the following:

-Organization that provides standards for career information delivery systems

A) CACGS
B) O*NET
C) OOH
D) DOL
E) ACSCI

Question 12

Match the following:

-Federal system of detailed occupational information

A) CACGS
B) O*NET
C) OOH
D) DOL
E) ACSCI

Question 13

Match the following:

-Narrative descriptions of occupations

A) CACGS
B) O*NET
C) OOH
D) DOL
E) ACSCI

Question 14

Match the following:

-Another term used in the literature to describe CIDS

A) CACGS
B) O*NET
C) OOH
D) DOL
E) ACSCI

Question 15

Match the following:

-US federal department responsible for developing occupational information

A) CACGS
B) O*NET
C) OOH
D) DOL
E) ACSCI

Question 16

The profession of career development and counseling has marched lockstep with the late twentieth and early twenty-first century technology boom.

Question 17

A counselor will work with a client base that represents a spectrum of digital literacy, access, and use patterns.

Question 18

An example of digital literacy is file management knowledge.

Question 19

Digital literacy refers to the level of access one has to technology.

Question 20

A home computer is considered a public-access technology.

Question 21

Age and generation are the most influential factors when determining abilities, use patterns, and familiarity with various technologies.

Question 22

Some literature suggests that an emphasis on age and generational influences may be exaggerated or focus on the wrong variables.

Question 23

Pensky (2001a, 2001b) suggested that those born after 1990 are "digital natives" and those before this date are "digital immigrants."

Question 24

Resistance is rarely an adaptive process.

Question 25

A taxonomy is a system of classification used to differentiate between entities within a closed system.

Question 26

For the most part, CIDS fall into three groups-those offered internationally, nationally, and those available within particular states or other locales.

Question 27

CIDS offer much more than data banks of information.

Question 28

The original CIDS began with the needs of gerontology in mind.

Question 29

Modern CIDS offer the same general sorts of information; they differ greatly in how they present the information and in the types of self-exploration and searches they provide.

Question 30

An ancillary site to O*Net HYPERLINK "http://www.workforceaguirre.org/)" (http://www.workforceaguirre HYPERLINK "http://www.workforceaguirre.org/)" .org/) provides down- loadable documents to help counselors utilize O*Net.

Question 31

The Occupational Outlook Handbook contains narrative descriptions of approxi- mately 675 occupational groups.

Question 32

The ERI contains about 15,000 job descriptions and 15,000 alternate titles.

Question 33

Peterson's includes detailed information about colleges and universities as well as a search tool.

Question 34

Employers in every field, including those in "high tech" industries, prefer written résumés.

Question 35

ASCII (pronounced askee) is a simple form of text recognized by virtually all computer platforms.