Test A

Question 2

What is the brand name for Methylphenidate?

Answer 2

Ritalin, Concerta

Question 3

What does an agonist do compared to an antagonist?

Answer 3

Agonist (more/faster) vs. Antagonist (less/slower/inhibitory)

Question 4

List the stages of Social Information Processing Theory as proposed by Crick & Dodge.

Answer 4

• Encoding
• Interpretation
• Response access
• Response evaluation
• Response enactment

Question 5

What are the three criteria for using General Mental Ability Testing according to Griggs v. Duke Power Company?

Answer 5

• Valid
• Measured job-related variables
• Business necessity

Question 6

Who is associated with operant learning?

Answer 6

Skinner

Question 7

What is the focus of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)?

Answer 7

Our thoughts, not external events, impact our emotions and behaviours

Question 8

What are the four key techniques used in Structural Family Therapy?

Answer 8

• Joining
• Enactment
• Boundary-Making
• Reframing

Question 9

Define Differentiation of self in Bowenian Family Systems Therapy.

Answer 9

Emotional independence

Question 10

What is the primary focus of Strategic Therapy?

Answer 10

Directive, problem-focused, quick

Question 11

What are the two types of changes in Communications Family Therapy?

Answer 11

• First Order Change
• Second Order Change

Question 12

Fill in the blank: Criterion _______ refers to how well your measurement actually captures the concept.

Answer 12

relevance

Question 13

What does the Self-In-Relation concept focus on?

Answer 13

A person’s sense of self is fundamentally shaped by their relationship with others

Question 14

What attachment style is characterized by a child showing contradictory behaviour?

Answer 14

Disorganized attachment

Question 15

What does Protocol Analysis involve in I/O Psychology?

Answer 15

An individual verbalizes their thought process while problem solving

Question 16

What is Response Cost in behavioral terms?

Answer 16

Losing something to dissuade a behaviour (negative punishment)

Question 17

What are the two types of conflict described in Approach-Avoid Conflict?

Answer 17

• Drawn to the alternative
• Repelled by the same alternative

Question 18

True or False: The Standard Error of Measurement (SEM) is dependent on the reliability of a test.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

What gender is autism diagnosed more frequently in?

Answer 19

Males

Question 20

List the stages of Kohlberg’s Moral Development.

Answer 20

• Pre-conventional
• Conventional
• Post-Conventional

Question 21

What characterizes Wernicke’s aphasia?

Answer 21

Comprehension issues; fluent but unintelligent speech

Question 22

What does a Two-Way ANOVA test?

Answer 22

The effect of two categorical variables on a continuous variable

Question 23

What does the Kappa Coefficient measure?

Answer 23

Interrater reliability

Question 24

What is a Forest Plot used for?

Answer 24

To visualize data from a meta-analysis

Question 25

Define Aversive Counterconditioning.

Answer 25

Used to treat maladaptive behaviours such as drinking or smoking

Question 26

What is the Reciprocity Hypothesis?

Answer 26

We are more likely to like others who like us

Question 27

What does the Standard Error of Estimate relate to?

Answer 27

Standard Deviation of the criterion

Question 28

What is the main focus of Theory X?

Answer 28

Workers are inherently lazy and must be coerced

Question 29

What is the Zeigarnik Effect?

Answer 29

Remembering incomplete tasks better than completed ones

Question 30

List the sleep waves in order from alert to deep.

Answer 30

* Beta * Alpha * Theta * Delta

Question 31

What are the stages of Sue & Sue’s model of Racial/Cultural Identity Development?

Answer 31

* Conformity * Dissonance * Resistance and Immersion * Introspection * Integrative awareness

Question 32

What is Primary Prevention?

Answer 32

Prevent disease or injury before it occurs

Question 33

What is a T score with a mean of 50 and SD of 10?

Answer 33

Mean = 50, SD = 10

Question 34

What is the relationship between men and X-Gene expression?

Answer 34

Men only have one X-Gene to express, women have two

Question 35

What is the role of the substantia nigra in Parkinson's disease?

Answer 35

Damage leads to Parkinson's

Question 36

What does Sensate Focus involve?

Answer 36

Based on counterconditioning, adding a pleasurable activity incompatible with a problematic response

Question 37

What is the Cannon-Bard Theory?

Answer 37

Emotions and bodily reactions occur simultaneously

Question 38

What does the Fundamental Attribution Error refer to?

Answer 38

About others: their successes are situational and failures are dispositional

Question 39

What is Group Polarization?

Answer 39

When a group makes more extreme decisions than they would as individuals

Question 40

What does Incremental Validity depend on?

Answer 40

* Base Rate * Selection Ratio * Criterion Related Validity

Question 41

What does Raven’s Progressive Matrices measure?

Answer 41

General intelligence (Spearman’s g factor)

Question 42

What does the Least Preferred Coworker (LPC) measure?

Answer 42

The agreeableness or relationship focus of the test-taker

Question 43

What is the concept of Bounded Rationality associated with?

Answer 43

Herbert Simon

Question 44

What is Criterion Contamination?

Answer 44

Scores on the criterion are influenced by knowledge of predictor scores