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Gerstmann’s Syndrome is characterized by:
-damage to left (dominant) parietal lobe - dysgraphia, finger agnosia, acalculia, and right-left disorientation.
When do you use a split-plot (mixed) design?
When the study has at least one between-groups variable and one within-subjects variable.
An ipsative score indicates:
the relative strength of an examinee’s status or performance on the various scales of the test.
When do you use Multiple Discriminant Function Analysis?
when multiple predictors will be used to classify individuals into one of three or more criterion groups.
In terms of the serial position effect, define the primacy effect
The ability to recall items in the beginning of the list due to the fact that these items have been transferred from short- to long-term memory
Jealousy, empathy, and embarassment are among the first self-conscious emotions exhibited by young children. At what age does this occur?
18 - 24 months of age
Early studies on in-group preferences found that children typically demonstrate preferences for members of their own ethnic/racial group and gender by about age _______.
4 or 5 years old.
The primary goals of George Kelly’s personal construct therapy are to _________
Identify and then revise the client’s maladaptive personal constructs so that he/she makes better predictions about events and other people.
Egan and Perry’s (2001) multidimensional model of gender identity consists of five components - membership knowledge, gender typicality, gender contentedness, felt pressure, and:
intergroup bias.
According to Piaget, what are Tertiary Circular Reactions? And at What age do they occur?
Tertiary circular reactions predominate from ages 12 to 18 months and involve varying an original action on an external object to see what happens.
For simple tasks (e.g., an automated production line), _______ communication networks tend to be more effective.
centralized
The Stroop Color-Word Association Test was developed as a:
measure of response inhibition.
A meta-analysis of the research conducted by Roberts, Walton, and Viechtbauer (2006) found that scores on which of the following personality traits continue to increase into later adulthood?
agreeableness and conscientiousness
How did Piaget describe Transductive Reasoning? And in what stage did it appear?
- Preoperational Stage
- It refers to reasoning characterized by a tendency to move from one particular case to another particular case without taking the general into account (e.g., I had bad thoughts about my mom; she got sick; therefore, my thoughts made her sick)
The item discrimination index ranges in value from:
-1.0 to +1.0
When do you use the Spearman rho correlation?
when data on both variables are ranks.
What does higher-order conditioning involve?
using a CS as an US in order to establish a CR for a second CS.
What are the Symptoms of the first (early) stage of Alzheimer’s?
impaired attention and judgment, anterograde amnesia, and indifference or sadness
Raising the predictor cutoff score _____
-decreases the number of true and false positives -increases the number of true and false negatives.
By ___________, children understand that a person’s beliefs about a situation may be false and that the person will act upon the false belief rather than the reality of the situation.
four to five years of age
Describe the difference (in example language) between Associative Agnosia vs. Apperceptive Agnosia?
Associative Agnosia: cannot name a familiar object she sees but may know what it is used for and can copy or match a drawing of the object.
Apperceptive Agnosia: cannot name a familiar object she sees but may recognize it when it is placed in her hand and cannot copy or match a drawing of the object.
A test with even a low or moderate validity coefficient can improve decision-making accuracy when the _________________
selection ratio is low (e.g., .05) and the base rate is moderate (near .50).
What is Anosognosia?
Failure to recognize one’s own neurological symptoms (e.g., paralysis)
______ has been identified as a method for reducing biases in testing that contribute to group differences in test scores. Its advocates argue that it is an effective way for reducing __________.
- Banding
- adverse impact