| Term | Definition |
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| the basis of developmental theories | The idea that people grow and change over time affecting their view of work and themselves is |
| The developmental theories are | Super's Life Span Theory; Ginzberg's Development Theory; and Gottfredson's Theory of Circumscription and Compromise |
| Developmental theories asserted that: | People make career choices in relation to their self-concepts . Therefore it is important to understand oneself and requirements of a particular career |
| According to Super career patterns are determined by: | Socio-economic status, mental and physical abilities, personal characteristics, and the opportunities to which a person is exposed. |
| Super believed that people | Change with time, experience, and progress through a series of vocational development stages. |
| Super's timeline for career growth | birth to 14 , foundation is being laid; 15-24 is exploration period; 25 to 40 is establishment (actural work situations; 65-- maintaience attempts to improve |
| Gottfredson's Theory of Circumscription and Compromise is concerned with: | How career aspirations develop and it has four assumptions |
| Assumptions of of Gottfredson's theory: | The career development process begins in childhood; career aspirations are attempts to implement one's self concept; career satisfactions is dependent on the degree to which the career is congruent with self perception; people develop occupational stereotypes that guide them in selection process. |
| Ginzberg's Developmental Theory of Career Choice | is fairly simplistic and includes three stages people go through before they make career choices. |
| Stages of Ginzberg's Developmental theory | Fantasy (birth to11) children think of careers that are usually unrealistic and relate to fantasy of being an adult with little considration of personal or job abilities; tentative ( 11-17) generally focused; realistic (17-18 and up) focus is more realistic |
| Person Environment Theories are | Trait and factor theories |
| Trait and factor theories are | Minossota Theory Work Adjustment; Holland's Personality Type theory; and Hershenson's Theory of work adjustment Development. |
| Trait and factor theories assume | that individuals need to understand their abilities, aptitudes, interests, and skills (traits) and match these to the specific requirements and demands(factors) of different occupations |
| Holland's work personality assumes | job satifaction, stability and success take place when individual insterest and abilities are matched with occupations that satisfy those abilities and interests. |
| Holland identified six work personality types: | Realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional and six corresponding work environmnets vocational evaluation and exploration with the Self-Directed Search. |
| Hershenson's Theory of Wok Adjustment Development Theory was developed with: | people with disabilities in mind. |
| Three domains of Hershenson's theory is | Work personality: self concept; Work competencies; develop during school years, work habits, physical, and mental skills; work goals: becomes focus as person prepares to move from school to work |
| Hershenson's Work Adjustment is | how adolescents develop and adjust from school to work. |
| Minnesota Theory of Work Adjustment states: | people have requirements of their environment and the environment also requires certain aspects of the person. |
| MTWA assumes that people | try to achieve correspondence with their work enviornment and when they have reached correspondence they have reached work adjustment. |
| MTWA's Satisfaction is | reinforcement provided by work which is needed |
| MTWA's Satisfactorness | is the worksr abilities and job requirement correspondence between the worker and the work |
| Tenure | the term during which some position is held |
| Social Learning Theory (based on ) | the work of Abert Bandura, a leading researcher in the areal of social influences |
| Social learning focuses on | the learning process that lead to beliefs and how these affect career choices. |
| Krombolz's Social Learning Theory assumes | people are born with certain characteristics (all the events and conditions they experience in fife are learning experiences with successes being duplicated and failures being avoided |
| Four primary factors of Krunbolz's theory | Genetic endowment and special abilities, environmental conditions and events, learning experiences, and task approach skills (skills one applies to new tasks or problems) |
| Parsons and Williamson is associated with | The trait-and factor career counseling, actuarial, or matching approach (which matches clients with a job). |
| Trait and factor fails to take in to account | Individual change throughout the life span. |
| Ann Roe's work theory is sometimes | referred to person in environment theory. |
| Roe was the first career specialist to | utilize a two dimensional system of occupational classification ( fields and levels) |
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