Ethics in Psychology Pre-Test Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the fundamental ethical principles and standards that guide psychological research and practice. Students will examine key topics such as confidentiality, informed consent, professional competence, dual relationships, and the ethical decision-making process within various psychological settings. Through real-world case studies and analysis of the American Psychological Association (APA) Ethics Code, participants will learn to navigate the complexities involved in protecting clients rights, conducting responsible research, and promoting integrity in the profession. Emphasis is placed on developing ethical reasoning skills and understanding the cultural, legal, and social implications of ethical issues in psychology.
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Ethics in Counseling and Therapy Developing an Ethical Identity 1st Edition by Rick A. Houser
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) The American __________ Association (1996) provided a brief guide for counselors on ethical decision making.
A) Psychological
B) Psychiatric
C) Social Work
D) Counseling
Answer: D
Q2) Step 2 of the decision making model put forth by the ACA is to:
A) Identify the problem
B) Apply the codes of ethics
C) Research the codes of ethics
D) Consult the professional literature
Answer: B
Q3) Rest's model include all but which of the following:
A) moral development
B) moral judgment
C) moral motivation
D) moral character
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Professional Identity and Ethics
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Q1) Blasi (1983) provided a model of ethical identity that consists all but which element:
A) benevolence
B) judgment of responsibility
C) centrality of moral identity
D) self-consistency.
Answer: A
Q2) A review of reports of therapist misconduct to state licensure boards discovered that ___________ was/were the most frequent complaint(s).
A) self-disclosure
B) dual relationships
C) abandonment
D) breaking confidentiality
Answer: B
Q3) Schemas are generally developed around specific scripts or views of roles and situations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Awareness and Sensitivity to Ethical Issues
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Q1) Hauser (2006) saw moral intuitions as evidence for a moral grammar that provides humans with a rudimentary system that primes human cooperation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Define "ethical sensitivity".
Answer: -Welfel and Kitchener (1992) noted that the first step in ethical action, "interpreting the situation as a moral one, involves the recognition that one's actions affect the welfare of another" (p. 179).
-Weaver, Morse, and Mitcham (2008) defined ethical sensitivity as "that which enables professionals to recognize, interpret and respond appropriately to concerns of those receiving professional services" (p. 607).
-Rest (1984) discussed ethical sensitivity in the following way: a person realizes that she/he could do something which would affect the interests, welfare, or expectations of other people.
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Chapter 4: Cognitions and Reasoninghermeneutics
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Q1) What is confidentiality and when is it important to break it?
Q2) The __________ population are projected through the year 2050 to continue to be the fastest growing races or ethnic groups.
A) White
B) Asian
C) Hispanic
D) American Indian
Q3) The U.S. Census Bureau (2004) estimates that if demographic data follow recent trends, during the period of 2000 to 2050, the outcome will be that the ________ population will be the slowest growing racial group and will be reduced by 10% overall in total population by 2050.
A) White
B) Asian
C) Hispanic
D) American Indian
Q4) The term hermeneutics originates from the Greek word hermeneno, which means to interpret
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Client Autonomy and Client Rights
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Q1) The Tuskegee syphilis study initially involved an intention to study 600 ______________ men, 400 with syphilis and 200 without syphilis.
A) Asian
B) African American
C) White
D) Hispanic
Q2) What is fidelity and how does it relate to counseling?
Q3) A medical treatment that contributed to increased monitoring of informed consent concerned the _____________ study, which started in 1932 and ended in 1972.
A) Ukrainian Syphilis Study
B) Polish Gonorrhea Study
C) Tuskegee Herpes Study
D) Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Q4) Beneficence must include both conditions: (a) a need for help where there is an obligation to help and (b) inability to help.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is assent and how would you go about obtaining it?
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Chapter 6: Dual Relationships
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Q1) This occurs when the professional and a client meet in an unstructured social setting such as a store.
A) Shifts in professional roles
B) Personal and professional role conflicts
C) Circumstantial multiple roles
D) Structured multiple roles
Q2) This is defined as "a comprehensive pattern of behavior and attitudes, constituting a strategy for coping with a recurrent set of situations, which is socially identified more or less clearly as an entity"
A) social positions
B) social roles
C) social attitudes
D) social behaviors
Q3) The ACA codes include standards addressing duals relationships under Section
A) A.8, Group Work
B) A.5, Roles and Relationships With Clients.
C) B.6.e, Assistance with Records
D) C.2.f, Continuing Education
Q4) Define dual relationships and give two examples.
Q5) Describe three types of touch that are appropriate for counseling.
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Chapter 7: Counselor Competence
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Q1) "Do I have knowledge of how to assess the problem?" is an example of:
A) supervisor-assessment
B) self-assessment
C) peer-assessment
D) faculty-assessment.
Q2) Counselors who engage in ______counseling services are at a higher risk for burnout and counselor fatigue syndrome.
A) school
B) rehabilitation
C) crisis
D) career
Q3) Discuss self-reflection and why it is important in counseling.
Q4) Mayer (2004) identified six steps in implementing evidence-based practice including all but which:
A) development of a question that needs to be addressed
B) evaluation of the results once the new approach is implemented.
C) a careful review of non scholarly magazines
D) careful analysis and critique of the identified study to be sure it applies,
Q5) What is assessment and how is it used in counseling?
Q6) Discuss three of the five stages of the stages of counselor development.
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Chapter 8: Diversity and Multicultural Competence
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Q1) Compare and contrast race, phenotype, and genotype.
Q2) ______ therapy is defined as conversion from an LGBT sexual orientation to a heterosexual orientation.
A) Reparative
B) Brief
C) Solution Focused
D) Behavioral
Q3) According to Pedersen, the third second stage in developing cultural competency is:
A) awareness of culturally learned assumptions
B) an awareness of the counselor's own worldview and biases
C) an understanding of culturally relevant facts
D) development of culturally appropriate interventions
Q4) Only phenotype-not genotype-differentiates humans.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Diversity is defined as individual differences and group/social differences.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss the structure of the Latino family.
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Chapter 9: Use of Technology and Ethics
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Q1) The purpose of this act is to set up the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology with the intent of coordinating the electronic use of patient health information.
A) Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009
B) Health Information Portability Act of 1996
C) Health Information Technology for Efficiency and Clinical Health Act of 2009
D) Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 1996
Q2) What is an EMR and what are the benefits of using it in counseling?
Q3) In 1995 it was difficult to find an online counselor; however, 5 years later there were more than 2,000 online clinics and more than 8,000 therapists listed as providing online counseling.
A)True
B)False
Q4) This is defined as "the feeling (or illusion) of being in someone's presence without sharing any immediate physical space".
A) telespace
B) teleporting
C) telepresence
D) telefeeling
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Chapter 10: Supervision and Ethics
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Q1) Ronnestad and Skovholt (2003) suggested that students in this phase are particularly sensitive to criticism from faculty or supervisors.
A) lay helper
B) novice professional
C) beginning student
D) senior professional
Q2) Describe in detail the second phase of Ronnestad and Skovholt's model.
Q3) Ronnestad and Skovholt identified six phases of counselor development. List and describe these phases.
Q4) Compare and contrast clinical and administrative supervisors.
Q5) This phase of Ronnestad and Skovholt's model involves the counselor engaged in practice for a number of years in which he or she has worked with a range of clients in a variety of settings.
A) lay helper
B) novice professional
C) experienced professional
D) senior professional
Q6) Describe potential dual relationships that may occur between supervisor and supervisee.
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Chapter 11: Ethical Use of Research in Counseling Practice
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Q1) The first step in Mayer's EBP approach is:
A) evaluation of the study to determine its quality and use
B) careful review of the professional literature
C) assessment of how the study outcomes may be applied to the current issue.
D) identification of a question
Q2) The _____________approach was noted to be effective with smoking, alcohol abuse, and screening behaviors
A) Solution Focused
B) Transtheoretical Model of Change
C) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
D) Rogerian
Q3) The third step in Mayer's EBP approach is:
A) evaluation of the study to determine its quality and use
B) identification of a study that most closely resembles the issue to be addressed and the evaluation of the outcomes achieved in the study.
C) assessment of how the study outcomes may be applied to the current issue.
D) identification of a question
Q4) Kettlewell identified several benefits of using EBP. Name and describe two of these benefits.
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Chapter 12: Professional Codes of Ethics and the Law
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Q1) Some states have _________ laws against having sex with patients, regardless of age.
A) Common
B) Civil
C) Criminal
D) Statutory
Q2) Duty to warn and the laws and court decisions associated with it fit into the hermeneutic model under review of local, state, and federal laws.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Approximately ___% of child abuse cases reported nationally are substantiated.
A) 10
B) 20
C) 30
D) 40
Q4) Compare and contrast criminal and civil law.
Q5) A criminal act with which mental health professionals have been charged is sex with minors.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Western Theories of Ethics
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Q1) Discuss the criteria that is relevant in determining whether an outcome is moral based or double effect.
Q2) Procreation is a human value in natural law.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Utilitarian theory originated during the ____th century.
A) 16
B) 17
C) 18
D) 19
Q4) Aristotelian philosophy and virtue ethics influenced the development of natural law.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Professionals are trained to develop the skills associated with best practice in their fields and a clear sense of their responsibility to society at large.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss the history of virtue ethics.
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Chapter 14: Eastern Theories of Ethics
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Q1) Dharma refers to seeking the truth and elevation to a higher level.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The three major philosophical thoughts in China include all but which:
A) Confucianism
B) Buddhism
C) Hinduism
D) Taoism
Q3) Hinduism, an older philosophy that was developed around 500 BCE, was created in response to the perceived limitations of Buddhism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Hinduism is the oldest historically recorded philosophical view, dating back to 2500 BCE.
A) Hinduism
B) Taoism
C) Buddhism
D) Confucianism
Q5) What is "The Middle Way" according to Buddhism?
Q6) What is Karma and how is it often misconstrued?
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Chapter 15: Middle Eastern Ethical Theories
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Q1) A _________ act may be defined as an outcome that causes pain regardless of the individual's intent.
A) Evil or forbidden act
B) Undesirable act
C) Neutral act
D) Desirable act
Q2) One of the major writers on Muslim ethics was:
A) Abd al-Jabbar
B) Jabbar al-Abd
C) Kabbar al-Dba
D) Dba al-Kabbar
Q3) These acts are those that potentially help others or remove harm.
A) Good or required acts
B) Undesirable acts
C) Neutral acts
D) Desirable acts
Q4) Judaic ethics is founded on the belief that humans have a responsibility to repair the world.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Native American, Hispaniclatino, and African Ethics
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Q1) Hawaii was discovered by Captain Cook in the late 1800s.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Bopp, Bopp, Brown, and Lane (1985) identified the "Sacred Tree" as a symbol of connections within the universe.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The __________were believed to be the first Europeans to come in contact with Alaskan Natives beginning in the 10th century CE.
A) Vikings
B) English
C) Irish
D) Canadians
Q4) In Hispanic/Latino ethics, it is unusual for older children to take on parenting roles with younger children.
A)True
B)False
Q5) According to Hispanic/Latino ethics, what is Marianismo?
Q6) Give a brief overview of African ethics.
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