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What is the pravalence of OCD in children
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Pravalence in boys is much higer than in girls.
Boys - 6-15 Women- 20-29 |
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What does the Taylor Russell table say about optimizing incremental validity.
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Incremental validity is optimized when the base rate is moderate and the selection ratio is low; i.e large pool of applicants with few openings.
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Distinguish btw a Nomothetic and a Idiographic approach
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Nomothetic - observation of a group
Idiographic - observation of one or a few people closely |
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What is diagnostic overshadowing?
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It occurs when a clinician fails to diagnose a person that is MR or has a disability with an AXIS I d/o that they meet the criteria for.
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What is hindsight bias?
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It is the tendency to see the events that happen as more predictable than they were before they occurred.
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What is M'Naughton rule related to?
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The insanity defense
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What is the Item response theory based on?
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The premise the a test content of varying difficulty, uniform scales of measurement may be applied to persons of different ability.
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What are the Key elements of self instruction theory?
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repetition, graded practice, congnitive restructuring.
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Explain Cognitive Disonance?
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This is when a person holds a belief that is inconsistent with their action, they experience dissonance.
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Perceiving ones problems as being more than it actually is?
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Distortion/Magnification
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What are peptides?
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Substances that mimic the effect of a drug.
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Credibility and giving are processes that are important in
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working with ethnic minority
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What does the ethics code say about using the media to promote a psychologist
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A psychologist may pay for advertisement, however they have to ensure that it is identified as such.
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what does research say regarding leadership in organizations
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Satisfaction tends to be highest under demoract leaders, and higher productivity is associated with democratic and authoritarian leaders.
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What is used in a multiple regression equation?
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Line of best fit.
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Ganser Syndrome?
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Giving slightly wrong answers to questions one would have gotten right.
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Talk about lower level needs
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lower level need - hygiene
If not met will lead to dissatisfaction, if met does not lead to satisfaction e.g pay, supervision, relationships |
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Talk about upper level needs
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upper level needs -motivators
it met will lead to satisfaction, if not met will not lead to dissatisfaction e.g achievement, responsibiltiy |
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Talk about the brain at birth
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At birth, the brain is 1/4 to 1/3 of its adult size. It has almost as many neurons as its adult brain.
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Describe the Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory
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It is a three strata model with general intelligence at the top and a broad intelligence in the middle and a narrow cogn. abilities at the bottom.
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Describe the diff btw Bipolar d/o w/psychotic feat and schizoaffective d/o?
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Bipolar d/o consitute psychotic episode superimposed on mood sxs, while schizoaffective d/o involves a distinct period of psychosis without the mood sxs.
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The distinction btw episodic and semantic memory is?
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temporary distinct events and knowledge of the world in general.
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Indifference and Euphoria suggest damage to the ....
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right hemisphere
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Speech comprehension and expression difficulty relates to damage to the
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Left hemisphere
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Describe a jacksonian seizure?
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It does not involve loss of consciousness and can affect any function of the brain. It is called a simple partial seizure.
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hypnogagic hallucinations
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when a person falls asleep
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hypnopompic hallucinations
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when a person is awake
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talk about cognitive changes in the aging adult
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Usually fluid intelligence declines and crystal intelligence remain intact, also, ability to use logic and in ecologically valid assessment does not appear to greatly affect aging.
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