In Applying for Graduate School, a Doctoral Program Asks Potential

question 34

Multiple Choice

In applying for graduate school, a doctoral program asks potential students to role-play a counselor with a faculty member. The faculty member role-plays the same client with each potential doctoral student. Which technique is being employed?

• A) A rating scale
• B) A behavior checklist
• C) A sociometric technique
• D) A situational test
• E) Records and personal documents

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Definitions:

Offering Help

The act of providing assistance or support to someone in need voluntarily.

Interpreting an Event

The process of understanding or assigning meaning to an occurrence or situation based on one's own perspective and context.

Bystander Effect

A phenomenon where individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present.

Pluralistic Ignorance

A situation where individuals wrongly believe their feelings and beliefs are different from those of others, often leading to conformity to what they mistakenly think is the majority opinion.