Identify some ways that college impacts the career development and choices of college students
What will be an ideal response?
• Students frequently change their plans.
• Significant occupational status differences between high school and college graduates are sustained over the life span.
• Individuals with bachelor's degrees are more likely to obtain high-status, managerial, technical and professional jobs.
• College graduates are less likely to be unemployed than are high school graduates.
• College graduates are less likely to suffer the effects of prolonged periods of unemployment.
• Employers see college graduates as possessing requisite skills and values that make them more desirable for employment and advancement.
• College graduates enjoy significantly higher levels of career mobility and advancement.
• College experiences tend to produce conflicting influences on satisfaction with one's work. College tends to develop a capacity for critical judgment and evaluation that in turn provides sensitivity to shortcomings of jobs.
• Maturity of career thinking and planning can be modestly improved through various career development courses.
• Socialization in college increases student occupational aspirations.
• College may enhance occupational success by facilitating development of traits that describe a psychologically mature person.
• For reducing unemployment, a college education was more important for non-whites than for whites.
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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act requires that ______.
a. children with disabilities be educated in the least restrictive environment possible b all infants and toddlers be identified and provided an individualized education program c. all school-aged children with disabilities be provided an individualized family services plan d. all children with disabilities be educated in the same classes as typically developing children in all circumstances
The American Psychiatric Association eliminated homosexuality as a mental disorder in
a. 1972 b. 1978 c. 1982 d. 1986
Define the term archive.
What will be an ideal response?
According to Freud, neurotic anxiety is likely to occur when:
a. an external threat is accurately perceived. b. one's level of anxiety is proportionate to the level of threat existing in the environment. c. a threat of disapproval or punishment exists. d. an unconscious impulse emerges into one's awareness.