Kaplan Behavioral Med Questions

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Characterized by an inability to register & form lasting memories of new or present events

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Anterograde amnesia

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Characterized by an inability to remember events prior to the onset of disease, with preservation of the ability to form new memories

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Retrograde Amnesia

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When something newly learned interferes with previously learned information. New material inhibits old material

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Proactive Inhibition

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When previously learned material interferes with the ability to acquire new information. Old material inhibits new material

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Retroactive Inhibition

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Characterized by confusion & impairment of recent memory. It often occurs in elderly people & resolves without sequelae

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Transient Global Amnesia

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When a person has an abrupt change of geographic location or identity without alterations in consciousness or memory changes

a period during which a person suffers from loss of memory, often begins a new life, and, upon recovery, remembers nothing of the amnesic phase

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Fugue

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Type of Schizophernia characterized by movement disorders, pecularities like posturing or stereotyped behaviors, & Echolalia (repeating words spoken by othere)

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Catatonic

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Schizophrenia type characterized by manifest delusions & hallucinations involving persecution or grandeur

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Paranoid

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Schizophrenia type that is diagnosed when there is a clear schizophrenic problem; however there are no prominent delusions or hallucinations, & the person's behavior & speech are not disorganized

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Residual

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Personality disorder that is characterized by the word "entitlement". These individuals have a grandiose but unstable sense of self-importance that often alternates with feelings of unworthiness

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Narcissistic

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Personality disorder in which the person is cold & aloof but displays magical thinking (beliefs that others can sense their thoughts or feelings). They may have ideas of reference, recurrent perceptual illusions, depersonalization, or suspisciousness

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Schizotypal

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List the order of the stages of dying

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1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression/Sadness
5. Acceptance

**DAB-DA**

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Test used to determine whether the difference between 2 or more groups is significantly different. This method is not applicable to raw frequency data

Difference between the means of 3 or more groups

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ANOVA

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Test that checks the difference between the means of 2 groups

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t-test

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Test that checks the difference between 2 or more percentages or proportions of categorical outcomes (not means values)

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Chi-square

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Study that allows researchers to compute an Odd Ratio

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Case-control

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Study that allows researchers to compute a Relative Risk

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Cohort

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What does a "one-way interaction" in an ANOVA study indicate?

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any of the 3 variables in isolation can affect the vaccine's efficacy

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What does a "two-way interaction" in an ANOVA study indicate?

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2 of the 3 variables in the study effect the efficacy of the vaccine

For example, persons of a given sex & age group benefit the most from the vaccine, regardless of ethnic group

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What does a "three-way interaction" in an ANOVA study indicate?

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only people of a given ethnic group, age, & sex benefit from the vaccine

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Study in which the same group if followed over a long period of time. Generally, no active intervention is instituted after the initial event. Note that the event may be either negative or positive

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Longitudinal study

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Most common reason for an individual oh higher sES to "move downward" into a significantly lower SES

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disabling PHYSICAL problems

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Disoder in which the normal paralysis of muscles during REM sleep is not present, & the person "acts out" the dream they are experiencing

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REM sleep disorder

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Common side effects of Lithium?

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Diabetes Insipidus
Tremor
Ataxia
Aphasia
Sedation

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What is the ealiest age at which toilet training may be successful

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18 months

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Bias that occurs when the intervention under consideration is delivered with unusual skill (or incompetence) so that it cannot be reproduced in typical settings

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Proficiency bias

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Bias that occurs when patients with the suspected outcome are more extensively probed about their symptoms & histories than are patients without the suspected outcome

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Ascertainment bias

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Bias that occurs when more information is solicited from the treatment group than from the placebo group

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Detection bias

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Bias that occurs in retrospective studies. Patients may not remember the severity of their symptomsor how much intervention occurred over the specified course of time

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Recall bias

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Bias that occurs when the sample of patients used in a study is not typical of the general population. For example, if an academic medical center sees the most acutely ill patients admitted for bypass surgery, its overall bypass mortality rates will appear extraordinarily high

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Referral bias

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Term for the ability of other researchers to reproduce the results

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Reliability

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Term that refers to the "trueness" of the measurement, i.e. how close the measured value is to the true value

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Accuracy

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Measure that is an index of how well the test measures what it purports to measure

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Validity

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Disorder characterized by elements of both schizophrenia (ie psychotic symptoms) & mood disorders (manic or depressive)

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Schizoaffective disorder

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Thought disorder of psychotic proportion with a duration between 1-6 months

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Schizophreniform disorder

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When does "stranger anxiety" typically occur in infants"

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5-9 months

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When does "separation anxiety" typically occur in infants?

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10-18 months