Incorrect Practice Exam Questions For Eppp

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Network Therapy

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Network Therapy is an intervention for Native American clients. The therapist acts as a catalyst who initiates the process and brings the client's family, friends and relatives (the client's network) together to implement the therapeutic process.

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Immersion-Emersion state of Cross' Nigrescence Theory

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during the Immersion-Emersion stage, there is a tendency for African-Americans to idealize other African-Americans and the culture and denigrate Caucasian individuals and culture.

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Resistant attachment pattern in babies

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in resistant attachment pattern - babies are anxious in the presence of their mother and become upset when she leaves. They are also ambivalent when she returns and may resist mom's attempts at physical contact

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Raven's Progressive Matrices

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was originally developed as a measure of general intelligence (such as Spearman's "g"). Is often used as a measure of perceptual ability.

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Group Polarization

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tendency of individuals who start off with similar views to end up with a more extreme position after group discussion.

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Avoidance Conditioning

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a form of negative reinforcement in which a cue is presented PRIOR to the aversive stimulus - signaling the individual to avoid it.

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3 forms of job commitment - 1. Affective commitment, 2. Normative commitment, 3. Continuance commitment

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1. affective commitment - the employee's psychological attitudes toward the organization, 2. normative commitment - the employee's perceived obligation to stay with the company, 3. continuance commitment - refers to the cost of leaving the company. This is least related to job satisfaction and other job-related attitudes and more to practical considerations.

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Social loafing in the workplace

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social loafing in the workplace occurs when employees, particularly those in high-level positions, are evaluated based on a combined effort of the group, rather than for individual contributions. It is more likely to occur when tasks are simple and boring. To avoid social loafing, an employer should insure that each employee's job is challenging and that they receive individual recognition for individual efforts.

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Types and descriptions of long-term memory

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explicit (or declarative memory) - retrieval with a conscious awareness of remembering facts (ex. GW was 1st president). Implicit (procedural memory) - an unconscious type of retrieval for automatic skills and memory for how to do things, a skill (i.e. procedures)

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About 50% of infants walk well by the age of....

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12 months - 90% are walking well by 14 months

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Optimal treatment for PTSD is....

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prolonged exposure. Stress inoculation training is also effective but doesn't seem to add much to prolonged exposure.

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Communication patterns - 1.symmetrical communication, 2.complimentary communication, 3.pseudohostility, 4. mystification

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1. symmetrical - equality between the partners. This can result in competition and conflict. 2. Complimentary - there is inequality, with one partner taking a dominant role and the other taking a subordinate role, 3. pseudohostility - presents as superficial bickering in order to avoid real conflicts, 4. mystification - person uses denial to mask what is really going on

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Fact witness vs. Expert witness in court

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An expert witness CAN offer opinions. A fact witness can only testify about the facts. A psychologist can give an opinion but only if it's ordered by the court and any opinions should be qualified by a statement about its limitations

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Conditions that increase the risk for delirium in the elderly

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pneumonia, congestive heart failure, major surgery

** the elderly and children are at an increased risk for delirium

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Testosterone

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Testosterone is primarily a male sex hormone but it also found in females. It mediates the sex drive, to some degree, in both males and females.

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What is a 1. Moderator variable, 2. confounding variable, 3. criterion contamination

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moderator variable- any variable which influences the relationship between 2 variables (ex. if test has lower validity for 1 race in comparison with another)2. confounding variable - variable in a study that is not of interest to the researcher but exerts a systematic effect on DV, 3.criterion contamination- the artificial inflation of validity which can occur when raters subjectively scores ratees on a measure after they've been informed how ratees score on a predictor.

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Avoidant attachment patterns in babies

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babies may avoid contact with their mother when she returns but will show little distress when she leaves

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authoritative parents

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are high in control (demandingness) and high in warmth (responsiveness). They tend to raise children who are most resilient to stressors of life.

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Diagnosis of Dementia of the Alzheimer's type

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requires: impairment in memory and cognitive impairment [such as: aphasia (language disturbance), apraxia (impaired ability to carry out motor activities), agnosia (failure to recognize objects) or disturbance in executive functioning]

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Stage 5 of Kohlberg's model

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Stage 5 of Kohlberg begins to post-conventional level of moral development. An individual in this stage seeks to uphold democratically-determined laws but recognizes that laws can be ignored or changed for a valid reason.

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Ritalin should not be used for a hyperactive child who has.....

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a pre-existing Tic Disorder or family history of a Tic Disorder

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Escape conditioning

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an individual is able to escape from an aversive stimulus by engaging in a particular behavior (ex. removal of time out (aver. stimulus) let to increase of remorseful behavior). Escape cond is a type of negative reinforcement.