Practice Tests

Question 1

Motor movements associated with Huntington are due to what

Answer 1

Deterioration of cells in the globus pallidus

Question 2

What does increasing alpha from .01 to .05 do

Answer 2

Increases statistical power and probability to making a type I error (false pos.)

Question 3

Position Analysis Questionnaire

Answer 3

Structured questionnaire that provides information needed to compare worker activities for different jobs

Question 4

Item Difficulty Index

Answer 4

Goes from 0-1.0 with 0 being a super hard question and 1.0 indicating a super easy question. So to increase difficulty of an exam you add more questions with low item difficulty index scores

Question 5

Communality scores

Answer 5

Whatever the commonality score is, that’s how much of the variability in scores is explained by the identified factors.

Question 6

Heritability of schizophrenia for twins

Answer 6

The frequency of offspring if nonaffected twins is similar to frequency of affected twin offspring developing schizophrenia, and both values are greater than the frequency in the general population.

Question 7

Oregon social learning center

Answer 7

Created intervention for aggressive, antisocial behavior in children and it focuses on teaching parents effective parenting strategies

Question 8

Identifying behavioral anchors for behaviorally anchored rating scales

Answer 8

You would use a critical incident technique to do this.

Behavioral anchors are descriptions of specific job behaviors that represent good, average, poor performance.

Question 9

Strong Interest Inventory

Answer 9

Provides scores on Holland’s six occupational themes: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional

Question 10

Getting high reliability during test development

Answer 10

Longer tests tend to be more reliable, and reliability coefficients are higher when possible scores obtained are unrestricted (i.e., when samples are heterogenous)

Question 11

Comparable worth

Answer 11

For people who perform different jobs with similar skills and responsibilities should be paid equally. Important in wage gap issued.

Question 12

Emotion development

Answer 12

Embarrassment, envy, empathy develop 18-24mths; shame, guilt, pride develop 30-36mths

Question 13

Primary prevention

Answer 13

An intervention targeted at people who don’t have a certain issue yet to intervene before they develop such an issue/condition

Question 14

Predictor beta weight

Answer 14

The beta weight represents the strength of the relationship between the predictor and the criterion. The value of the beta weight suggests the strength of the relationship (negative value is negative rx and vice versa)

Question 15

Conceptualization in Stress Inoculation training

Answer 15

Conceptualization is the first stage and it is when the therapist helps the patient realize their performance failures are due to skill deficits.

Question 16

Contralateral neglect and strokes

Answer 16

Most indicative of damage to parietal lobe

Question 17

Latent Inhibition

Answer 17

In the context of classical conditioning. This is when pre exposure to an intended conditioned stimulus alone multiple times before the conditioning starts decreases the likelihood it will become a conditioned stimulus. The ore exposure inhibits the association process.

Question 18

Informational influence v. Normative influence

Answer 18

Informational influence is more powerful when the task is ambiguous and difficult.

Question 19

Interns struggling with internship rotation

Answer 19

If it’s time limited or specific to a certain population and it’s due to family or personal things you can reassign. Even though the intern should likely seek therapy you should reassign them because of the situation.

Question 20

Divorce and remarriage outcomes

Answer 20

The outcomes are worst for kids when the parent remarries during the kids early adolescence.

Question 21

Howard et. al. And the “dose effect”

Answer 21

They found that 50% of patients had improvement by the 8-13th session, 75% of patients in therapy showed improvement by the 26th session, and 85% by the 52nd

Question 22

Job burnout characteristics

Answer 22

Depersonalization and cynicism, sense of inefficacy, exhaustion

Question 23

Elaborative rehearsal

Answer 23

Best way to get stuff from short to long term. Includes recalling things and adding personalized or more detailed info in order to remember it

Question 24

Holland’s self directed search questionnaire

Answer 24

High scores on realistic scale = you prefer to work with things than people

High scores on enterprising scale = you like to lead and persuade people

High scores on conventional scale = you like to do work that has set procedures and rules

High scores on investigative scale = you like to work with ideas and solve problems

Question 25

Turner syndrome

Answer 25

Caused by a total or partial deletion on an X chromosome for females.

Sxs: small stature, webbed neck, infertility, usually need hormones to develop secondary sex characteristics.

Question 26

Working memory and fluid intelligence

Answer 26

Working memory and fluid intelligence are correlated and even when tasks may not be the same working memory can improve fluid intelligence Performance because of similar underlying skills needed. So giving someone coaching on a difficult working memory task improves fluid intelligence performance even on unrelated tasks.

Question 27

Narcolepsy medications

Answer 27

Sodium oxalate = good for daytime sleepiness, night time sleep, reducing cataplexy

Modafinil and methylphenidate = good for daytime sleepiness

Fluoxetine = good for reducing cataplexy

Question 28

Increasing test cut off score

Answer 28

Decreases true and false positives, increases true and false negatives

Question 29

Work family conflict research

Answer 29

Men and women experience similar levels of work family conflict. Very small differences when looking at dual income households (men experience more work conflict in family time) or multiple children (women experience more family in work conflicts)

Question 30

Dismissive attachment style

Answer 30

As adults these people with deny or devalue important family rxs or give contradictory info

Question 31

Benzos for Anxiety

Answer 31

Diazepam (valium), alprazolam (xanax), lorazepam (ativan)

Question 32

Selective abstraction

Answer 32

Making a conclusion based on minimal evidence.

Different from arbitrary inference which is making conclusions without any corroborating info

Ex: thinking your are terrible worker when you get one piece of critical feedback surrounded by positive feedback is selective abstraction. While arbitrary inference in a teacher thinking she is terrible when two students leave the first class before the period is over (you have no real idea why they left class, could have been in the wrong class)

Question 33

MMPI 4-9

Answer 33

Indicative of antisocial tendencies, low frustration tolerance, impulsivity

(Psychopathic deviant, hypomanic)

Question 34

Fading

Answer 34

Fading is when you gradually decrease hints or cues.

Different from thinning when you are gradually removing reinforcement

Question 35

Goal setting theory

Answer 35

Don’t always need the supervisee to be involved for the goal to be met. Best for them to be involved when the supervisee has high need for achievement or is unlikely to accept the goal without collaboration.

Question 36

Driver and Brousseau career concept model

Answer 36

4 factors = linear, expert, spiral, transitory

They all differ in relation to direction of career movement and frequency of career change.

Question 37

Disintegration stage (Helms)

Answer 37

Processing strategy is suppression of info and ambivalence

Question 38

Bottom up processing

Answer 38

Data driven. Begins with incoming sensory info and is then processed and perceived and interpreted

Question 39

Top down processing

Answer 39

Concept driven. Brain uses pre-existing knowledge and expectations to interpret incoming sensory input

Question 40

Implicit memories location

Answer 40

Cerebellum and basal ganglia

Question 41

Structural family therapy techniques for joining with family

Answer 41

Tracking = adopting content of family communication to join with them

Mimesis = adopting communication, behavioral, and affective styles of family

Maintenance = providing family with support

Question 42

Actor observer bias

Answer 42

Attributional bias and is the tendency to attribute own behaviors to situational factors and behavior of others to dispositions factors.

Question 43

Alheimzers and brain

Answer 43

Locus coerulus is considered ground zero of alzheimers. And then other areas like amygdala, thalamus, and corpus callosum are effected.

Question 44

Illiciting change

Answer 44

Greatest emotion related to change is shame. Dispositional appraisal is most likely to lead to change and shame is dispositional (i.e., I’m a bad person)

Question 45

Universal prevention programs

Answer 45

Aimed at all members of a population regardless of level of risk i.e., all pregnant women

Question 46

Selective intervention program

Answer 46

Aimed at those who are known to be at risk for a disorder or condition i.e., pregnant low income women

Question 47

Indicated prevention programs

Answer 47

Aimed at individuals who are at high risk for a disorder i.e., low income preg women who have had a moscarriage

Question 48

Secondary prevention program

Answer 48

Aimed at individuals who have been identified as being at elevated risk for a disorder or condition