A counselor makes the fundamental attribution error when he
a. is exposed to a powerful experience that keeps a certain point of view in his mind and then he interprets clients’ problems from that point of view, whether it is appropriate or not.
b. explains his own behavior situationally, and explains other people’s behavior by attributing it to their personality traits and other inherent characteristics.
c. tends to notice things that support his hypotheses and ignore things that disprove his hypotheses.
d. gets hung up on one hypothesis about the root of a client’s problem, resulting in missing important information offered by the client.
e. assumes occurrences are causally associated when they happened at the same time.
Answer: b
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a. Strengthening the ego, acting in concert with one’s authentic personality and self-actualization. b. Those deeper or higher aspects of human experience that transcend the ordinary and the average. c. Meaning that individuals place on the aspects of their lives. d. Strengthening the ego and understanding the cause and effect of one’s actions. e. The intrapsychic battleground.
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a. lifelong learning b. just practice c. completing continuing education credits d. obtaining supervision or consultation
_____ is the degree to which an individual client improves after treatment
a. Treatment integrity b. Statistical significance c. Clinical significance d. Treatment fidelity
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a. DUI b. domestic violence c. abuse or neglect d. murder