Test 5 Flashcards
(30 cards)
Criterion deficiency
Criterion fails to measure all aspects of conceptual criterion - limits validity, may have high reliability
Howard’s phase model of progress in therapy
Dose dependent effect
Remoralization - improvement in subjective sense of well being
Remediation - reduction in symptoms
Rehabilitation - improvement in overall function
What measure of effect size indicates the effects of treatment
Eta squared
What is carbamazepine?
An anticonvulsant that treats bipolar
What is semiotic function?
Piaget - learning to use word, symbol, or object to represent something- pre operational stage
According to Super, what is career maturity?
Mastery of developmental tasks for a given stage
Three stages of appraisal - Lazarus
Cognitive appraisal of a situation precedes emotional reaction. Three types:
Primary: is the situation positive/stressful/irrelevant?
Secondary: do we have the resources we need to cope?
Reappraisal: monitor situation and modify as necessary
Retinal disparity
Use of both eyes to perceive depth or distance
The impact of a workers nAch on goals
Higher for self-set goals than assigned goals for people who are high in nAch.
For people low in nAch, commitment to assigned goals is typically higher than for self-set goals.
What is one challenge in determining “comparable worth”?
Potential gender bias
McLelland
nAch, nPower, nAff
Managers should be high in socialized (to benefit others) nPower and low in nAff
Personal power (benefits self) is less important
Domain referenced score
What proportion of items were answered correctly
Restraining
Positioning
Prescription
Telling a client not to change
Exaggerating the severity of symptoms
Deliberately engage in the target behavior
What is a situation in which family therapy is contraindicated?
Depression
Wernickes encephalopathy
Acute mental confusion, ataxia , opthalmoplegia - thiamine deficienc
Conditioning:
Simultaneous
Trace
Delay
Presenting us and CS at same time
CS is presented and removed before us
Presenting CS so it precedes and overlaps us.
Delay more effective than trace more wffective than simultaneous
What is theme interference
Caplan - consultee’s unresolved conflict relation to a particular type of client / situation interferes with current performance in these contexts
Effects of neurofeedback / EEG ON ADHD?
Large effect size for inattention and impulsivity
Medium effect size for hyperactivity
Effects of neurofeedback / EEG ON ADHD?
Large effect size for inattention and impulsivity
Medium effect size for hyperactivity
Effects remain stable or improve over a two year period
Benefits for 70-80% / similar to medication / is effective when used alone
Mnemonics are most useful for
Information that is not inherently meaningful
What Rorschach variables correlate highly with iq?
Organizational activity
Developmental quality
Lambda
F%
(FOLD)
What is PTI on Rorschach ?
Perceptual thinking index - measure of though disorders
What is Rorschach wsum6 ?
Thought disorders
What is Rorschach s-con?
Suicide risk
Schaie’s Seattle Longitudinal study
Looked at age-related changes in cognitive abilities
- found that iq remains relatively stable
- age related declines before age 70 are apparent only for perceptual speed and numerical abilities