D1001-1200 Flashcards
(200 cards)
What is the term to describe a man who has • Never been able to achieve an erection?
Primary erectile disorder
What is the term to describe a man who has • The ability to have an erection sometimes and other times not?
Selective erectile disorder
What is the term to describe a man who has • Used to be able to achieve an erection but now cannot?
Secondary erectile disorder (Male erectile disorder is the same as impotence.)
What stage of sleep is associated with somnambulism?
Sleepwalking is associated with stage 4 and occurs most often in the first third of sleep.
What are the three surrogate criteria?
- What did the patient want? 2. What would the patient say? 3. What is in the patient’s best interests?
True or false? Four-fifths of those who attempt suicide first give a warning.
True; 80% have visited a doctor in the previous 6 months. And 50% within the last month!
Can a patient refuse life-saving treatment for religious reasons?
Yes. (Remember, Jehovah’s witnesses refuse blood transfusions.)
What form of bias occurs when the experimenter’s expectation inadvertently is expressed to the subjects, producing the desired effects? How can it be eliminated?
Pygmalion effect (experimenter expectancy). This can be eliminated with double-blind studies.
What type of hallucination occurs during awakening?
Hypnopompic hallucinations occur during awakening, whereas hypnagogic hallucinations occur while one is falling asleep.
When attempting to make up sleep, what stage of sleep is recovered?
About 80% of stage 4 sleep is recovered, approximately half of REM is recovered, and only one-third of total sleep is ever made up.
What is backward masking, and is there a positive correlation with schizophrenic patients?
When showing two pictures in rapid succession, you split the pictures half a second apart, resulting in the second picture masking the first (indicating poor short-term memory). This is seen in nearly 33% of schizophrenic patients.
True or false? Being single increases your risk of suicide.
False. Separation, divorce, being widowed, and unemployment increase your risk, but being single does not.
True or false? Serious psychiatric illness is more common after abortion than childbirth.
False. Childbirth carries five times as much risk of serious psychiatric illness as abortion.
What type of error is made if you accept the null hypothesis when it is false?
Type II error (beta error). (Remember it as saying something doesn’t work when it does.)
Most sleep time is spent in what stage of sleep?
Stage 2, which accounts for approximately 45% of total sleep time, with REM occupying 20%.
In a negatively skewed curve is the mean greater than the mode?
Yes. In a negatively skewed distribution the mean is greater than the median is greater than the mode.
What axis I disorder is characterized by a clinically significant syndrome that affects social, occupational, and/or academic achievement; occurs less than 3 months after a stressor; and abates less than 6 months after the stressor is removed?
Adjustment disorder. It is a diagnosis of exclusion (used if no other choice).
What type of personality test is the Rorschach inkblot test, objective or projective?
Projective test. Most tests with a wide range of possibilities for the answers are projective.
What statistical test checks to see whether the groups are different by comparing the means of two groups from a single nominal variable?
The T-test (used when comparing two groups)
What antipsychotic movement disorder can occur at any time and is characterized by a subjective sense of discomfort that brings on restlessness, pacing, sitting down, and getting up?
Akathisia
What form of depression is due to abnormal metabolism of melatonin?
Seasonal affective disorder (treat with bright light therapy)
What three circumstances allow a child to be committed to institutional care?
- The child poses an imminent danger to self or others. 2. The child is unable to self-care daily at the appropriate developmental level. 3. The parents or guardians have no control over the child or will not promise to ensure the child’s safety even though they refuse hospitalization.
What operant conditioning therapy or modification is described as • Reinforcing successive attempts that lead to the desired goal (gradual improvement)?
Shaping (successive approximation)
What operant conditioning therapy or modification is described as • Having a stimulus take over the control of the behavior (unintentionally)?
Stimulus control