Question 1

Frank Parsons

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Considered the "father of vocational Guidance", Parsons developed the idea of  matching individual traits (skills interests, and personality) with job requirements.

Question 2

John Holland

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Holland's Theory of Career Choice, proposes that individuals choose careers based on the match between their personality types and work environments.  He identified 6 personality types (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional).

Question 3

Donald Super

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Super's Developmental Self-Concept Theory emphasizes the role of self-concept development in career choice and how it evolves over time.

Question 4

Albert Bandura

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Social Cognitive Career Theory highlights the influce of observation learning, social factos, andindividual beliefs on career decisions.  Also conducted The Bobo Doll experiment.

Question 5

John Krumboltz

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Planned Happenstance Theory acknowledges the impact of chance events and the need for individuals to be open to unexpected opportunities that may shape their career paths.

Question 6

Anne Roe

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Roe's theory focuses on the influence of early childhood experiences and PARENTAL relations on indiviuals needs and values, which can impact career choices.

Question 7

Linda Gottfredson

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Gottfredson's circumscription and compromise theory explres how individuals narror their career options due to factors like gender stereotypes and social class.

Question 8

Mark Savickas

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Savickas' Career Construction Theory builds upon Super's work, emphasizing the importance of an individual's unique story and values in shaping their career path.

Question 9

Alfred Adlers

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Individual Psychology, the :Style of Life" refers to a person's unique way of thinking, feeling, and behaving, which is shaped by their striving for superiority.

Question 10

C. Gilbert Wrenn

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Coined Cultural encapsulation which refers to the tendency of individuals, particulary in fields like counseling, to operate based soley on their own cultural assumptions and beliefs without considering or understanding the perspectives of others from diverse backgrounds.

Question 11

John Bowlby

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Developed the Attachment Theory which is a psychological theory that emphasizes the importance of early childhood relationships, particulary the bond between an infant tna

Question 12

Erik Erikson

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Theory of Psychosocial Developmental proposes that individuals progress throught eight distinct stages across their lifespan, eached makred by a unique psychosocial conflict.

Question 13

Jean Piaget

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His theory of cognitive development, explains how children's thinking progresses through distinct stages. He proposed that children's intelligence changes as they grow, moving through four stages:

Question 14

Martin Buber

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Human beings may adopt two attiitudes toward the world a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I--Thou relationship and the I--It relationship.

Question 15

Sidmund Freud

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Founder of Psychoanalysis, a therory of how the mind works and a mehod of helping people in mental distress.  He developed key concepts like the ID, Ego, and Superego, as well as the Oedipus Complex, Defense Mechanisms, and Psychosexual stages of development.

Question 16

Carl Jung

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Developed analytical psychology, a school of thought that emphasizes the importance of the unconscious mind, including the collective unconscious and archetypes, and the concept of individuation. He also introduced the introversion and extraversion concepts, which are still influential in personality assessments like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).

Career choice theorists