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What is the purpose of the APA Society of Clinical Psychology?
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The field of clinical psych integrates science, theory, and practice to understand, predict, and alleviate maladjustment, disability, and discomfort as well as promote human adaptation, adjustment, and personal development
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Does clinical psychology have to do with applied psychology or experimental psychology?
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Applied; clinicians apply their knowledge to patients during therapy
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Another name for psychotherapy is what? What is psychotherapy?
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Talk therapy, using verbal means to promote change in a client through identifying or challenging thoughts, validating or labeling emotions, and gathering info
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What are the steps in training to become a psychologist?
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Undergraduate degree --> grad degree / doctoral program --> internship --> postdoctoral supervision
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What is the scientist-practitioner model of psych?
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Says that a clinical psychology should be capable of being both a scientist and a practitioner (might produce their own research but also know how to critique an article and use the findings in a clinical setting)
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What is the clinical scientist model?
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Emphasis on doing research studying clinical phenomenon (depression, autism, etc)
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What is the practitioner scholar model?
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The opposite of the practitioner scholar model, does mostly clinical training with less emphasis on research
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What is the name of the comprehensive test you need to take prior to being able to practice?
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The Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology
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What was early psychology concerned with?
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Measuring the purpose of describing and understanding human behavior
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Who developed the first intelligence test and in what year?
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1905, Binet and Simon
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Who established the precedent of psychologists being recognized in test construction and measuring individual differences?
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Robert Yerkes (he developed group-administerred tests to be administered to army recruits to determine their levels of functioning)
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Who developed the first intelligence test?
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David Wechsler in 1939
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What is the TAT test and who developed it?
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Henry Murray, supposed to reveal info about a person's sense of self
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Projective tests (such as the Rorschacht inkblot test) rely on _____, while criterion referenced tests are based on ____
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clinical judgment; statistical procedures
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What methods were developed during the '50's and '60s?
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Methods of behavioral assessment (focusing on describing observable events, situational behaviors and current behaviors) focused on gathering clinical data with immediate and obvious value in planning and evaluating treatment strategies
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Emil Kraeplin
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Developed the first diagnostic system for mental disorders. Studied syndromes and called them "syndromes", identified the importance of onset and course of syndromes
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What types of treatments for mental illness were given in the 1500s?
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Being treated with leeches (thought to reduce excitation due to an excess of blood in the body), or being immersed in frigid water
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In the 1700's what was the belief about mental health?
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Problems could be analyzed, understood, and solved using methods of science
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A reformer of mental health treatment was....
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Benjamin Rush, promoted the use of moral therapy with the mentally ill and encouraged the use of compassion and patience rather than physical punishments / restraints
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In the late 1800's physicians realized what
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that some conditions could not be solved by purely biological / neurological causes
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Jean Martin Charcot founded what?
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clinical neurology (treated patients with hysteria using hypnosis)
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Freud believed that psychopathology stemmed from
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unconscious sexual and aggressive desires
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Client-Centered Therapy by Carl Rogers was what?
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The first major alternative to Freud's psychonalysis. It assumed people were capable of developing a positive, healthy manner and that the goal of therapy was to provide an environment in which clients could connect with their emotions and discover their potential for growth
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Perls' Gestalt Therapy emphasized
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A patients' unique perception of events and how it affects their emotions
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Who were the two people who started cognitive therapies?
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Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck
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