General flash cards
(200 cards)
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Wernickes is to Brocas as:
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Wernickes is to Brocas as:
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Masters and Johnsons technique of sensate focus is based on
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counterconditioning
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The part of the brain responsible for consolidation of
long-term memory
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hippocampus(in temporal lobe)
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Frued and Skinner share common views about:
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determinism
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Research on the incidence of differential validity has found:
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The problem is primarily sample size
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Part of the brain not fully developed at birth
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cortex
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On the MMPI, which validity scale serves as a moderator?
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K
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Preference for handedness first expresses itself at _ and
becomes firmly established by age _
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2; 7-8
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Humans exhibit sexual dimorphism:
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to a lesser degree than many other species
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Interval recording is used:
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when a behavior has no clear beginning, middle or end
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The best treatment for elderly patients w/ paranoia:
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neuroleptics
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The best predictor of adolescent alcohol use
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Level of use by parents and peers
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The concept of instrumental learning was introduced by:
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thorndike
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THe concordance rate for identical twins for Bipolar
Disorder:
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75-80%
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According to research, the compressed workweek has the
least impact on:
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Absenteeism
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communication interaction therapy epouses that
communication has a “report function” and a :
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command function
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What characteristics are more critical for todays leaders than
managers?
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independent, innovative, flexible
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THe release of sex hormones by the gonads depends on
signals from the
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hypothalamus
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THe ‘fourth force’ in psychology has beeen defined as:
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multiculturalism
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Tricyclic Antidepressants
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more effective in relieving vegetative symptoms (appetite,
sleep, motor disturbances
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The sequence of depth perception in infants
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Kinetic, binocular, pictorial
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Trend analysis
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used to determine the trend/shape that best describes the
relationship btw/ 2 variable
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Early signs of Dementia due to HIV disease:
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cognitive slowing and apathy
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An advantage of using a MANOVA over multiple one-way
ANOVAS is that:
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the use of the MANOVA reduces the experiment-wise error
rate
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Centralized Network
all communication goes through one person (usually person
in charge); most effective when task is easy; usually the
leader, not the employees, prefer a centralized network
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ADHD comorbidity
ADHD is most frequent comorbid disorder w/ about 20-25%
of children with learning disorder also having ADHD
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Herbert Simon
Bounded Rationality model of decision making
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Interpersonal Therapists on Depression
believe depression is caused/maintained by disturbances
early in life (esp. attachment disturbances); they focus on the
connection btw/ the presenting problem and the client's
current relationships (including the relationship with the
therapist
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Secondary Impotence
when a man persistently/recurrently fails to attain/maintain
an erection even though he has successfully achieved one in
the pas
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Low LPC wokers
task oriented
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Extinction treatment paradigms ar eoften limited by
accidental reinforcement
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In Holland's personality typology, the conventional type
most enjoys:
manipulating data, filing, copying
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The ratio of MDD in females to males:
2:1-3:1
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THe most effective behavior technique to reduce a school
aged childs temper tantrums:
extinction
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Approx what % of women experience full-blown postpartum
dep
10-20%
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MANOVA is used when
more than two DVs
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Multiple Cutoff
noncompensatory; a min score on each predictor must be
obtained before the applicant is considered for selection
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Job Rotation
having trainees learn several jobs (ordinarilly used to train
managers
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Life Space
The various social roles an individual adopts at different pars
of his/her life span (child, student, worker)
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The various social roles an individual adopts at different pars
of his/her life span (child, student, worker)
integrates and processes all sensory information except for
olfactio
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Alloplastic intervention:
alters environmental conditions that contribute to/cause
distress
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Autoplastic:
attempts to change the individual to adapt to the environment
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Children are most likely to be resilient after trauma when
their parents are
high in warmth, structure and expectations
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Medication for Atypical Depression:
MAOI and SSRI
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Children with autism show superior intelligence on
Embedded Figures test
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Ultimate criterion:
construct cannot be measured directly, but can be measured
indirectly
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Crowing/Men vs. Women:
Women do better in lab setting, men do better in naturalistic
settin
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Maternal employment during first 3 years for child:
small neg impact on cognitive development/ no consistent
impact on emotional/behavioral development
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What do you need for Taylor Russell tables?
base rate, selection ratio, validity
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What % of women have postpartum blues?
What % of women have postpartum blues?
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Object Relations Family Therapy:
examines projections/transferences btw/ family members
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Job Satisfaction
Relatively stable and minimally affected by job change
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Startle Reflex
affected by individuals emotional state/neg. emotional state
=enhanced startle reflex; pos emotional state=reduced startle
refle
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Implicit Memory
effortless, automatic; test by using word-stem completion
test
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Paired comparison test
helps reduce rater bias
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Neurotransmitters in Social Phobia
Seratonin and Dopamine
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Webers law:
The more intense a stimulus,the greater of change in
intensity that must occur for a person to percieve change
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WHo has best tx outcomes?
Mexicans-Anglos-Asians-African Americans
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Scientific Management Theory:
predicts job enrichment has detrimental effect on job
performance
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Goal of thermal feedback is to lower:
sympathetic nervous system
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Triangulation least likely to occur when:
family members are highly differentiated
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Lewins 3 stages of organizational change:
unfreezing, changing, refreezing
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Selection technique that best predicts turnover:
biodata
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Power
ability to detect a falst null hypothesis
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% of left-handed people who are left-hemisphere dominant
for language
50-60%
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Reality therapy
Dual goals of helping client take responsibility for and suffer
the natural consequences of their actions
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on the Stanford Binet, the routing subtests include:
Object Series/Matrices and vocab
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Wolpe-Reciprical Inhibition
replacing an anxiety response with a relaxation response
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Raven Progressive Matrices
Raven Progressive Matrices
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Job Enrichment
Has positive effects (for some employees) on job satisfaction
and performance
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Pseudodementia
memory loss, isolated, fluctuating, contradictory, exaggerate
symptoms
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Minunchin's view on psychosomatic families:
weak boundaries btw/ members and limited individual
autonomy
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weak boundaries btw/ members and limited individual
autonomy
sensory functions
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A person with post-traumatic amnesia will show the greatest
impairment with:
verbal memory
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Toddlers of mothers who are severly depressed tend to be:
passively noncompliant
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Coefficient of internal consistency:
used to measure characteristic that fluctuates over time
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Lazarus-3 types of appraisal:
primary, secondary, reappraisal
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MR-heredity is responsible for:
5%
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In factor analysis, rotating factors :
changes factor loadings and eigenvalues
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Most effective tx to decrease 5 year olds nightmares/fear of
the dark
coping self-statements and pos. imagery
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clint centered therapist responds to transference by:
disregarding i
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3 components of needs assessment
job, person, organizational analysis
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Structural equation modeling
evaluate causal influences of multiple latent factors
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Low selection rate and moderate base rate are useful for
maximizing incremental validity
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Depressive attributional style:
global, internal, stable
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Pavlov produced experimental neurosis by:
requiring dogs to make difficult discriminations
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employee surveys
evaluate employee attitudes and opinions about an
intervention
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Most common co-diagnosis of GAD
Social phobia
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Goal-setting theory, equity theory and expectancy theory all
share:
assumption that human cognition affects behavior
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Leading cause of infant mortality:
congenital deformities (infant deaths have decreased recently,
but congenital defects have increased)
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the effectiveness of EMDR is due to:
exposure to anxiety producing stimuli
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exposure to anxiety producing stimuli
feminist/ emphasizes the impact of ones connections with
other (exp. daughter w/ mother
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Stranger Anx appears at _ and peaks at _
8-10 months; 18 months
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Ability to generate mental images:
hippocampus
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criterion contamination
when rater knows how ratee did on predictor test and this
affects rating
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Children with ADHD score lowest on:
digit span and arithmetic
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if mom/dad are each heterozygous for PKU, the chance the
child will get is
25%
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Privileged communication
legal term referring to patients right to refuse to have info
released during legal proceedings.
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Children with hx of Bilateral otitis media score lowest on:
Children with hx of Bilateral otitis media score lowest on:
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Seperation anxiety has onset at _ and peaks at _
8-9; 18
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Wolpe, neurotic depression:
a response to anxiety and can be alleviated using systematic
desensitizatio
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Feature integration theory
proposes that focused visual attention is required for
perception of an object to occur
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The earliest symptoms of Huntingtons :
affective symptoms (irritability or depression)
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Mimesis
adopting a families communication and affective style as
way to join
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Path-goal theory
leaders will be most successful when show followers path for
achieving goals/the best leadership style depends on certain
characteristics of the situation
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Beta
probability of type II error-rejecting false null hypothesis
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Reframing
designed to increase family's compliance with therapist
directives and tx plans
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Kuder-Richardson Formula 20
test of internal consistency
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Petit mal seizures have origin in:
thalamus
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Matching law
when using concurrent schedules of reinforcement, the
proportion of responses will match the proportion of
reinforcement
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"Telling" leadership style most effective when:
low in ability and low in willingness
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F ratio
comparing between group and within group variability
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Children with ADHD score highest on:
Picture concepts, picture completion, word reasoning,
similaritie
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retinal disparity (binocular disparity)
the use of both eyes to perceive depth or distance
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Kappa coeffecient
inter-rater reliability
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recently, psychoanalysists have begun to see
countertransference as:
an aid for the analyst to gain insight into the patients world
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Compressed workweek has least impact on:
objective measures of job performance
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Treatment for mild to moderate hypertension
blood pressure feedback and training in general relaxation
are equally effectiv
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In managed care, who is the gatekeeper?
In managed care, who is the gatekeeper?
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catecholamine hypothesis
predicts that drugs that increase norepinephrine will decrease
depression
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rotating shift
negative effects reduced when rotation is clockwise and
either rapid or slow
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Endoplasmic reticulum involved in
synthesis of proteins and fats
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Bender Gestalt most useful for identifying:
damage to Right hemisphere ;tests visual/perceptual skills
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TBI has most detrimental effect on:
processing speed
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stepwise multiple regression
identify fewest # of predictors needed to account for criterion
variability
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In the context of expectancy theory, valence refers to
the value of avaliable outcomes of the individual
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the value of available outcomes of the individual
vertical, horizontal and oblique
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slot machine
variable ratio -reinforcement after unknown # of responses
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ADHD
abnormalities in frontal lobe, striatum, cerebellum
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the greatest concern for patients taking benzos
rebound hyperexcitablily
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An inability to remember one's own name or to recollect
other autobiographical information is characteristic of:
psychogenic amnesia
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Mothers, after divorce
Mothers, after divorce
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Brief therapy vs. crisis intervention
in brief therapy, the symptoms addressed are considered
pathological. Crisis intervention deals with normal
expectable responses to highly stressful events
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retroactive interference
new memories interfere with old memories
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interruption: males vs. females
males interrupt more/females more often the victim
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Hiskey-nebraska test
dev. for use w/ deaf and hard of hearing children 3-16
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horizontal decalage-piaget
inconsistency in exhibiting a particular type of ability
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in contrast to maslow's theory, alders erg theory:
assumes needs become more important as they are fulfilled
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WAIS subtest that measures both crystalized and fluid
intelligence
picture arangement
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Significant finding for a one-way ANOVA means
the population means were different
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Klinefelter's
males w/ > 2 X chrom; devel breasts during puberty, small
penis, often sterile. LDs
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males w/ > 2 X chrom; devel breasts during puberty, small
penis, often sterile. LDs
single X; short; physical featuers (drooping eyelids, webbed
neck); retarded/absent dev. of secondary sex characteristics;
may have cognitive deficit
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Cri-du-chat Syndrome
nderweight at birth, characteristic facial features, retarded
physical/mental dev, high pitched cry during first few weeks
of life
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The correlation in the intelligence of identical twins raised
together
.85
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Flynn effect
IQ scores increase at a rate of 3 IQ points per decade-due to
increases in fluid intelligence due to env. factors
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Goal of Job Analysis
Performed to clarify the requirements of the job
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Goal of Job Evaluation
Conducted to determine the relative worth of jobs in order to
set salaries and wages
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Criterion contamination
occurs when the rating of an employee's performance on a
criterion is affected by irrelevant factors (i.e. knowledge of
an employees predictor performance)
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Selection Ratio
The ratio of job openings to job applicants
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Base Rate
The percent of employees that are performing well without
the use of the proposed predicto
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Taylor-Rusell table
used to estimatethe percent of new hires who will be
successful as employees given various combinations of
validity coefficients, selection ratios, and base rates
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Assessment Centers
used to evaluate managerial-level personnal, most often to
determine if lower-level managers should be promoted or to
identify a manager's needs for training
-use in-basket test
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Needs assessment
For Training Program Development. Consists of:
Organization analysis
Task Analysis
Person Analysis
Demographic Analysi
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Formative evaluation
Conducted while a training program is being developed and
its results are used to make modifications to the program
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Summative evaluation
conducted after a program has been implemented in order to
assess its outcomes
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Problems involving sensation in inner forearm and
ring/little fingers are due to spinal injury:
C8 to T1
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A researcher is using paired-associate and serial-learning
tasks. He is looking at:
Verbal Learning
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According to Helms, the ability of whites to develop a
healthy racial identity is most correlated to:
The extent of racism in society
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The extent of racism in society
situations when physical addiction has not developed
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Cost Utility
determines the impact of a treatment on a patients quality of
life
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Clozapine
has a limited effect on D2 receptors-instead it impacts
seratonine receptors
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has a limited effect on D2 receptors-instead it impacts
seratonine receptors
affective disorders, conduct disorder and antisocial
personality disorder, and substance use
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Combining an MAOI with certain cold and allergy medicine
can produce:
a hypertensive crisis
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The "active ingredient: in systematic desensitization
extinction
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The most common neuropsychological symtpoms following
a stroke:
depressed mood
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Rorschach-Organizational Activity:
Most useful for estimating level of intelligence
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Concordance Rates for Schizophrenia:
Biological offspring of one parent: 13%
Biological sibling: 9%
Parent: 6%
Adopted(reg pop.): 1%
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Stepparent-stepchild relationships are more difficult for:
Boys
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What has been identified as the primary barrier to substance
abuse treatment for women:
child and childcare concerns
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A test developer would use a Lord's chi squre in order to:
evaluate the different item functioning of an item included in
a test
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The onset of seperation anxiety usually begins btw/ 6-8
months and peaks in intensity at about
14-18 months
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Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development differ from
Piagets theory in terms of their:
emphasis on information processing
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The development of the "reflective self" is characeristic of
what stage?
Concreate operational
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Optimal training of complex motor skills:
Optimal training of complex motor skills:
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Gestalt therapists use transference:
to help a client see the difference btw/ transference and
reality
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Lawler's model of facet satisfaction:
based on the premise that job satisfaction is a product of
comparisons of one's job inputs, the inputs of others, and the
job charateristics to one's outcomes and the outcomes of
others
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Minorities who have an external locus of control and an
external locus of responsibility are likely to exhibit:
learned helplessness
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Eta squared:
the square of the coreelation coefficietn-is used as an index
of effect size
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Most people seek EAP services:
on their own
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If someone is suspected of cheating on the EPPP:
they will be given an opportunity to provide eveidence ot the
board of why their score should not be conceived
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prospective memory:
Remembering to remember
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An emphasis on contact, awareness, and experimentation is
central to:
Gestalt Therapy
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Aperceptive Agnosia is caused by:
lesions inthe visual association cortex
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"primary gain" is a goal of :
conversion disorder
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criterion-related validity:
the relationship between test scores and a criterion mea
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credentialing:
the formal proess for determining whether of not a provider
meets/maintains the qualification standards and provides
some legal protetion for the MCO
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Maternal gental discipline is predicitive of internalization of
consciousness for children who:
are fearful and anxious prone
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When conducting a psychological assessment:
informed consent is required except in certain situations
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emphasis on fun,socializing and enjoyment are characteristic
of what stage of group development?
norming
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In the context of item response theory, item difficulty is
defined as:
the probability that an examinee with a given level of ability
measured by the test will answer the item correctly
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the probability that an examinee with a given level of ability
measured by the test will answer the item correctly
the probability that an examinee with a given level of ability
measured by the test will answer the item correctly
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anterior cingulate cortex
involved in emotional reactions to pain
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The key feature of the preopperational stage of development
is:
semiotic function
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Dominant culture in the US has:
internal locus of control and internal locus of responsibility
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From the perspective of object relations theory, the critical
issue underlying Borderline traits in Kids:
abandonment
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The Bonferonni test helps control the eperimental error rate
by
reducing the level of significance for each comparison
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Calibration
the degree of similarity between a persons level of
confidence about being successful on a task and actual
success
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autocorrelation most likely to be a problem with:
repeated measures
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autocorrelation
correlation btw/ measurements of the dv when the dv is
repeatedly administered to the same subjects
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cross-dressing for the purpose of sexual excitement is a
symptom of :
transvestism
