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What is Sue's "Invisble Veil?"
A. Class Bound Values B. Cultureal-Bound Values C. Cultural universality D. Worldviews |
D. Worldviews
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Depressed patients typically have:
A. More rapid onset of REM B. Increased %age of REM C. Decreased slow wave sleep D. All of the above |
D. All of the above
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OCD: Treat it with CBT and meds that reduce activity in the:
A. RAS. B. Inferior Colliculus C. Caudate Nucleus D. Locus Correalus |
C. Caudate Nucleus- OCD associated with overactivity in caudate nucleus
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Teen is motivated by power and attention: Who's approach would fit best?
A. Adler B. Ellis C. Perls D. Freud |
A. Adler talked about desire to belong, but could warp into power, attention, inadequacy, revenge
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Depressed mood, suicidal, mising class for past week. What would be GAF?
A. 20 B. 40 C. 60 D. 80 |
B. 40- although only a week, the suicidality and serious impairment suggest 40-50
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What would you use to combine test scores when poor performance on what test can be offset by high performance on another?
A. Multiple baseline B. Multiple hurdle C. Multiple regression D. Multiple cutoff |
C. regression is best method for compensating
(b&d are not compensatory, a is a research design) |
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Idea that prejudice and discriminiation are outgrowths of drive to enhance self-esteem fits best with:
A. Social Identity Theory B. Social Comparison Theory C. Self-perception theory D. Self-verification theory |
A. Social identitiy theory- identity based on membership, believing in ingroup and disparaging outgroups
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Alzheimer's Dementia- damage to:
A. Frontal Lobe B. Parietal Lobe C. Occipital Lobe D. Temporal Lobe |
D. although seems to affect A, its D Temporal Lobe, site of much long-term memory
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Borderline Intellectual functioning: ?? SDs below the mean?
A. .5-1 B. 1-2 C. 2-3 D. 3-4 |
B. 1.0-2.0 SDs = 71, which is 2 SDs which is borderline
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Psychophysicist would be interested in:
A. All-or-none principle B. Functional brain imaging C. Just noticeable differences D. Long-term potentiation |
C. just noticeable differences
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Research on infant's cries:
A. Mothers and father have equal level of arousal B. Mothers have greater arousal C. Mothers and fathers arouse at all types, but highest if pain cry D. First time parents lower arousal than one or more kids |
C. PAIN cry is highest arousal
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Noncustodial parent requests evaluation, you do it, custodial parent compains.
A. Unethical because failed to get consent B. Ethical but poor judgment C. Ethical because noncustodial parent still retains this right D. Unethically because should have consulted a lawyer |
A. Unethically- you didn't get proper consent. Even in states where you don't need it, its still unethical
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Behavior therapist would likely view anxiety as:
A. Operant conditioning- negative life event served as punisher B. Operant conditioning- negatively reinforced for avoiding anxiety stimulus C. Classical conditioning- aversive stimulus or negative life event was the unconditioned stimulus D. Classical conditioning- aversive stimulus or negative life event was the conditioned stimulus |
C. Classical- bad thing was the unconditioned stimulus
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Partway through a study you find one treatment group doing much better, what should you do?
A. Inform the other groups and recommend they do new treatment B. Inform the other groups and give option of new treatment or continuing old treatment C. Not inform the other groups D. Wait until conclusion, then offer other groups new treatment. |
D. Wait until the end and offer it
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Stuarts operant interpersonal therapy:
A. Based on object-relations B. Encourage couples to focus on the positive C. Discourages quid-pro-quo among couples D. Suggests that succesful marrages are based on contingent punishments |
B. Encourage them to see positive in each other.
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IPT believes depression caused by:
A. Disturbances in early life, particularly related to attachment B. Cognitive disturbances C. Biochemical factors D. Societal issues |
A. interPERSONal therapy believes depression caused by disturbances, particualrly in ATTACHMENTS to others.
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Serious impaiments in functioning GAF:
(suicidal, etc. |
Means its below 50, probably 41-50
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People with red-green color blindness usually:
A. from Mom B. from Dad C. Develop in adolescence D. Have color blind daughters |
A. From mom! Sex linked is carried on x.
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Which would you NOT use to diagnose Alzheimers?
A. MSE B. Brain Scan C. Neuropsych exam D. Genetic testing |
D. You would NOT use genetic testing
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Last two decades, greatest suicide increase:
A. Under 15 B. 15-24 C. 35-44 D. Over 65 |
B. The 15-25 have risen the most!
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ADHD symptoms of hyperactivity and impulsivity among identical twins:
A. .20 B. .40 C. .60 D. .80 |
D. Those symptoms have 80%!! offspring have 57!!
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Rutters Risk Pattens for psychopatholoy:
A. Small family, parent criminal, marital discord B. Severe marital discord, low SES C. Large family, high ses, parental psychopathology D. low ses, small family |
B. Severe discord, low SES (also large family, maternal pathology, criminality, placement out of home)
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Ability to maintain mental picture after object removed is:
A. Flashbulb memory B. Eidetic imagery C. Sustained attention D. Method of loci |
B. Eidetic memory is photo memory (flashbulb is past emotional events, loci is method for recall like "library or cathedral"
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Hired to evaluate employees to hire/fire. Employees have signed a waiver of confidentiality. What do you do?
A. Explain to employer the ethical violation and refuse to do evals. B. conduct evals, but only give relevant to company information C. Discuss waiver with applicants and see if they want to continue D. Provide employee with any requested information. |
C, but probably a combo of a and c.
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Different regression line slopes in scatterplot suggest:
A. Differential validity B. Lack of factorial validity C. Divergent validity D. Convergent validity |
A. Slope is related to criterion related validity- steeper slope, more valid
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Holland and career choice: Best when fit between:
A. Interests and job demands B. Personality and job environment C. Self concept and job requirement D. values and meaning of job |
B. Holland: personality and job requirement. (he was RIASEC guy- differentiation, match, etc...)
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CBT compared to operant behavior treatment:
A. Less effective across most diagnoses B. Better with more intelligent clients C. Equally effective for all disorders D. More effective for addictive disorders |
C. equal (did you even hear any of the others?)
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Beck would say all but:
A. Early childhood plays a role in depression B. DEpressed are suffering from personality pathology due to stable omnipresent and dysfunctional models C. Cognitive triad of depressive cognitions is negative beliefs about self, future, world. D. Automatic depressive thoughts are result of logical errors in interpretation of a situation |
B. He would not say anything about omnipresence of models
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Asked to do a study for drug company and company will decide if it wants to publish results or not.
A. Do it because its within company's rights B. Do it if you can have approval C. Do it if everyone is debriefed D. Don't do it. |
D. Dont do it- its misleading and lending your influence to mislead.
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Beck: A depressed person has:
A. Interal locus of control, internal locus of responsibility B. Internal locus of control, external locus of responsibility C. External locus control, internal responsibility D. External locus control, external responsibility. |
C. External control, internal responsibilty. (Someone else is controlling it, but I have to deal- this is depressing!)
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Perry & Busey and depression:
A. Family discord and chaos B. Parental rejection and power assertive discipline C. Parents SES D. Early attachment style |
B. Perry and Busey said parental rejection and power dynamics (P)
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Predictor with Criterion Related Validity of .40 is best if:
A. High selection, moderate base B. high selection, low base C. Low selection, moderate base D. low selection, low base |
C. low selection, moderate base
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Criterion contamination:
A. Increases validity coefficient B. Lowers validity coefficeint C. Increases reliability but not validity D. Lowers reliability and validity |
A. CC increases validity coefficient. (IE if you know person has high iq and rate them higher, you think iq is a good predictor)
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Multiple regression to combine four measures to select for a job: Not a good idea because:
A. MR only when 3+ orthogonal categories B. MR only when 2+ criteria on continuous scale C. Characteristics are noncompensatory- D. Characteristics are compensatory |
C. MR not good because the measures are noncompensatory as far as you know
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Employees divided in teams to complete tasks. Any member can work on anything until its all done.
A. Additive B. Conjunctive C. Compensatory D. Disjunctive |
A. Additive- combo of everyones work
Conjunctive- everyone has to do something, so depends on worst worker Disjunctive- can choose what they want, so can have most competent person do it. Compensatory- all averaged together |
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Test has a Moderator Variable affecting outcome. This means:
A. Cross validation B. Shrinkage C. Differential validity D. Criterion contamination |
C. Differential validity
Moderators affect validity (think unfairnes, discrim, etc) |
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Dreams:
A. Rem B. Non Rem C. Rem and Non Rem D. Stage 1 sleep |
C rem and non rem
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Who is associated with a behavioral theory of career decision making?
A. Holland B. Super C. Herzberg D. Krumboltz |
D. Krumbo is associated with behavior model
(hertzberg is 2 factor, holland is personality/riasec, Super is stages) |
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Adapting attitudes and behaviors to fit expectations of what girls/boys are "supposed to do" within a sociocultural environment is reflective of which gender-role identity development theory?
A. Kagan's social learning B. Bem's gender schema C. Kohlberg's cognitive developmental D. Freud's psychodynamic |
B. Bems gender schema
(Kagan is more modeling and reinforcement) |
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Relapse for smoking: Withdrawal fear and:
A. Emotional factors like negative affect B. Environmental factors like presence of other smokers C. Use of other substances associated with smoking. D. Events attributable to external, uncontrollable, global, factors |
A. negative affects and emotions
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Lewin's field theory focuses on:
A. Immediate present B. Past factors that determine present C. Past, present and future D. past, present and/or future depending on the presenting problem. |
A. Lewin's field theory is about the immediate present
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Who is associated with a behavioral theory of career decision making?
A. Holland B. Super C. Herzberg D. Krumboltz |
D. Krumbo is associated with behavior model
(hertzberg is 2 factor, holland is personality/riasec, Super is stages) |
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Adapting attitudes and behaviors to fit expectations of what girls/boys are "supposed to do" within a sociocultural environment is reflective of which gender-role identity development theory?
A. Kagan's social learning B. Bem's gender schema C. Kohlberg's cognitive developmental D. Freud's psychodynamic |
B. Bems gender schema
(Kagan is more modeling and reinforcement) |
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Relapse for smoking: Withdrawal fear and:
A. Emotional factors like negative affect B. Environmental factors like presence of other smokers C. Use of other substances associated with smoking. D. Events attributable to external, uncontrollable, global, factors |
A. negative affects and emotions
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Lewin's field theory focuses on:
A. Immediate present B. Past factors that determine present C. Past, present and future D. past, present and/or future depending on the presenting problem. |
A. Lewin's field theory is about the immediate present
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Women who have abortions:
A. Have significant problems related to guilt and depression B. See abortion as normal process and suffer no problems C. Experience stress levels similar to women who have kids D. Experience sexual dysfunctions and other difficulties in relationships |
C. Same stress as women with kids
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Who proposed the behavioral theory of career decisions:
A. Super B. Holland C. Hertzberg D. Krumholz |
D. Krumholz had a scial learning theory
(super= stage, herzberg 2 factor, holland = personality) |
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Adapting gender attitides to fit expectations of what boys/girls are "supposd" to do is like whos theory?
A. Kagan's social learning B. Bem's Gender Schema C. Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental D. Freud's psychodynamic |
Bem: develop gender schema and then apply it to own behavior
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Lewin's field theory: Focus should be on:
A. Immediate present B. Past, present and future C. Past factors that affect the present D. Depends on the presenting problem |
A
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Borderline intellectional functioning over MR:
A. 71-75 with adaptive functioning probs B. 71-75 without adaptive functioning probs. C. 71-84 with D. 71-75 without |
B
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What threatens internal validity of time-series quasi-experimental?
A. Maturation B. History C. Regression D. Selection |
History (because in a time series you would try to account for maturation???)
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Chronic Alcoholism may cause cognitive impairments such as:
A. Visuospatial problems worse than verbal B. Verbal worse than visuaspatial problems C. Similar verbal and visuospatial D. Depends on if right or left brained |
A. Worse visuospatial (like being drunk)
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Which is most approprate:
A. Borderlines B. The disabled C. Individuals confined to a wheelchair D. People with cerebral palsy |
D PEOPLE with cerebral palsy
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Anxiety and academic achievement:
A. Best with high anxiety B. Optimal anxiety lower than for simpler tasks C. Optimal anxiety higher than for simpler tasks D. No consistent findings |
B. Academic anxiety is optimally lower than for simpler tasks
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Success Identity:
A. Berne B. Glasser C. Perls D. Rogers |
B. Glasser's "reality therapy" = have fun and belonging without infringing on others is "success identity"
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Chronic Alcoholism may cause cognitive impairments such as:
A. Visuospatial problems worse than verbal B. Verbal worse than visuaspatial problems C. Similar verbal and visuospatial D. Depends on if right or left brained |
A. Worse visuospatial (like being drunk)
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Which is most approprate:
A. Borderlines B. The disabled C. Individuals confined to a wheelchair D. People with cerebral palsy |
D PEOPLE with cerebral palsy
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Anxiety and academic achievement:
A. Best with high anxiety B. Optimal anxiety lower than for simpler tasks C. Optimal anxiety higher than for simpler tasks D. No consistent findings |
B. Academic anxiety is optimally lower than for simpler tasks
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Success Identity:
A. Berne B. Glasser C. Perls D. Rogers |
B. Glasser's "reality therapy" = have fun and belonging without infringing on others is "success identity"
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Epilepsy and tonic-clonic seizures:
A. More cognitive impairment than other seizures B. Less C. More when idiopathic D. impairment only when seizures are secodary to known pathology |
a
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Normal speech that makes no sense suggests damage to:
A. Cingulate sulcus B. Temporal lobe C. Corpus callosum D. Frontal lobe |
B. This is wernickes aphasia, caused by damage to temporal loe.
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What is first line to detect brain damage in an ER?
A. CT B. EEG C. PET D. MRI |
A. (cheaper, less extensive but better at looking at blood that MRI)
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Hippocampus Damage:
A. Amneisa B. Pseudodementia C. Weight loss D. Tremors |
A. Damage to hippocampus would most likely cause amnesia
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Code-switching
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Langauge switching in bilinguals- to express selves
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Severing corpus callosum would have most effect on:
A. Sensory systems B. Motor systems C. Memory D. Mood |
A. Sensory (think about all the split brain stuff on perception, etc)
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Praader Willi Syndrome caused by:
A. Chromosomal deletion B. Chromosomal translocation C. Extra chromosome D. Missing chromosome |
A. Deletion
Extra= downs/klinefelter missing = turner |
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Best predictor of success:
A. Symptoms B. Dependency C. Previous treatment D. Misery |
D, misery, apparently
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Marfan's Syndrome and Von Willebrand are due to:
A. X linked dominant gene B. X linked recessive C. Autosomal dominant D. Autosomal Recessive |
C. Autosomal dominant.
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See patient 26 months after completing therapy. What is MOST unethical?
A. Pursue romance B. Pick out a wardrobe C. Refer her to smoking cessation group D. Ask her, a physician, for medical advice |
A. PURSUE relatinoship -you would NEVER PURSUE it..
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Which group has lowest violence against women/domenstic violence?
A. Asian Ams B. Afam C. Native Ams D. White Ams |
A. Asian americans have lowest reported
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Cognitive Dissonance THeory would say:
A.We all have a need for cognitive dissonance. B. No link between attitudes and behaviors C. We are likely to change our attitudes to match behaviors D. We are likley to change our behaviors to match our attitudes |
C. Change out attitudes to match our behaviors - (act into new way of thinking)
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Who is associated with the shift in perspective from to since birth to time to death?
A. Levinson B. Erikson C. Neugarten D. Freud |
C. Neugarten
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Evidence of genetic influences are strongest for:
A. Avoidant PD B. Borderline PD. C. Antisocial PD D. Dependent PD |
C. Antisocial PD
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________ may result from job performance having low validity, even with high reliability
A. Differential validity B. Criterion contamination C. Criterion deficiency D. Reseracher deficiency |
C. Criterion deficiency
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Central Limit Theorem:
A. As sample size increases, shape of distribution becomes more normal B. As size of sample increases, shape of distributions of means becomes more normal. C. As size of sample increases, distribution of means approximates shape of distribution. D. As size of sampling distribution of means increases, distribution becomes more normal |
B. Means
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Early memory and attention deficits in alzheimers are believed to be caused by decreased activity in:
A. Dopaminergic B. Serotonergric C. GABAnergic D. Cholinergic |
D. Cholinergic (and temporal area)
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Which is most eunethical?
A. Handing out card to flood victims living in a school gymnasium B. Receiving payment for a book review in your field. C. Name and picture in magazine advertising scotch D. Sends announcement to newpaper saying available to work as a counselor. |
A
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Elevated F means:
A. Faking good B. Faking bad or careless C. Score should be considered valid D. Score should be considered invalid |
B. malingering or careless
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Test item analysis is a procedure used to:
A. Determine which items will be retained for the final version of the test B. Refer to the degree to which items differentiate among axaminees C. Graph depiction percentages of people D. Help the IRS |
A. Item analysis will be retained for the final version of the test.
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In supers theory of career development the rainbows represents:
A. Skills, abilities, and knowledge brought to the job. B. Different roles a person assumes during the course of their life C. Stages of career maturity D. Social and other environmental determinants of career choice. |
B. "Life-career-rainbow" is different roles over lifetime
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Best reduce leniency bias:
A. Peer ratings B. BARS C. BIB D. Forced choice |
D. Forced choice between equally desirable.undesirable. (BARS helps, training also helps)
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Family with elderly parent with alzheimers sees you for a consultation:
A. Work with patient on memory D. Refer family to support group C. Begin family therapy to explore diagnosis effect on family subsystems D. Work with identified patient individually |
B. suppor group
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Atrophy in caudate nucles:
A.OCD B. Jacob Creutzfeld disease C. Schizophrenia D. Huntingtons |
D. Caudate = huntingtons (movement, dopamine, cf: adhd) Overactive caudate may = A, OCD.
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Within subjects design that changes the order in which each treatment is administered to different groups:
A. Counterbalancing B. Latin Square C. Chi Square D. Solomon 4-square |
A. Counterbalancing
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Able to achieve erections during sleep, but has difficulty achieving/sustaining them during sex:
A. Hypoactive sexual desire disorder B. Male erectile disorder C. Sexual aversion disorder D. Sexual dysfunction NOS |
B. Plain old b- nothing even makes it D
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Yalom and groups:
A. Cohesiveness, altruism, universality B. Cohesiveness, interpersonal learning, catharsis C. Altruism, universailty, hope D. Hope, catharsis, existential factors |
B. Cohesive, interpersonal, catharsis
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Tumor in rear of right cerebral hemisphere, and removed that and primary visual cortex on the right. As a result, blind in:
A. Right part of visual field in right B. Right part of visual field in left C. Right part of visual field in both D. Left part of visual field in both |
D!
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All true about women and depression except:
A. Marraiges reduces risk of depression more for men than women. B. More children, more depression C. Multiple roles (job, kids, relationship) more vulnerable to depression than women who dont D. Gender differences in coping make women more at risk |
C. Multiple roles actually make women LESS likely for depression
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Rating all at the low end of the scale:
A. Floor effect B. Severity Error C. Contrast effect D. Central tendency bias |
B. Severity
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Implosive therapy:
A. gradually exposed in imagination, one step at a time. B. immediately exposed in imagination to stimlulus at maximum intensity C. gradually exposed in vivo one step at a time D. immediately exposed, in vivo, to stimulus at maximum intensity |
A. Implosive- immediately, maximally.
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Structural equation modeling:
A. Classifies participants into criterion groups based on status or score on 2+ predictors B. Evaluate convergent and divergent validity C. Identify homogenous groups from collection of observations D. Evaluate predictive relationships between measured variabled and latent factors |
D. evaluate predictive relationships between measured variables and latent factors
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Sequence of behaviors in which each behavior serves as reinforcement for the previous is:
A. Chaining B. Shaping C. Positive reinfrcement |
A Chaining is the sequence
(shaping is one behavior, trained through a sequence, not the sequence) |
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Minority teens score higher than white peers in what stage of identity development.
A. Identity achievement B. moratorium C. Foreclosure D. idetity diffusion |
C. foreclosure on ethnic identity- acceptance/commitment without thought/exploration of what it means
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Drug most abused by teens:
A. Alcohol B. Tobacco C. Cocaine D. Marijuana |
A. alcohol
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Baby grabs toy and squeezes it to make a sound and repeats this.
A. Primary circular reaction B. Secondary circular reaction C. Tertiary circular reaction D. Reflexive circular reaction |
B. Secondary (an outside action. Primary is action with self/body, tertiary is varying the action on an external object.
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Asian Americans least likely to:
A. Prefer direct and structured approach B. Be inhibited and reserved in therapy C. Smile to express disapproval D. Use silence to communicate respect |
C. (they actually smile to express apprehension or embarassment)
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