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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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characterized by: excessive worry, and about a # of events, and difficulty controlling worry
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spatial perception of 2 month old with shallow and deep visual cliffs
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heart rate DECREASES as infant show interest in the deep end, but do not yet have a fear of heights
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anosognosia
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with brain injury, it is a failure to recognize one's own disability.
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all agnosias are charaterized by:
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failure of recognition NOT due to sensory deficit or verbal or intellectual impairment
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serial position effect (and long term/short term memory)
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the tendency to recall items in the beginning and end of a word list better. The 1st is due to transfer to long term memory and the later due to still in short term memory
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schema
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an integrated cluster of knowledge about a concept
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script
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tells you what to do in certain situations, like a movie script
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a T score distribution has a mean of ____ and a SD of ___
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50 and 10
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A T score of 60 in a normal shaped distribution lies in what % rank?
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A T-score of 60 is 1 SD above the mean. 84% of people have scores lower than the score that is 1 SD above the mean
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The Buckley Amendment
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-parents/guardians or students of legal age have right to see school records
-prohibts disclosure of records without parental consent. -gov. can withhold federal funding. |
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Antisocial Personality Disorder dx criteria
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-18 y.o.
-history of antisocial behavior prior to 15 y.o. -some sxs. of Conduct Disorder |
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Atkinson's Racial/Cultural Identity Model
5 stages |
1. Confomity
2. Dissonance 3. Resistance/Immersion 4. Introspection 5. Integrative Awareness each stage in this model is characterized by a different combination of attitudes toward one's own minority group, other minority groups and the dominant group |
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transformational leaders
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-employees will function best if treated individually and given personal attention
-motivate workers by giving goals added meaning by placing them in larger context--for the social good. giving goals meaning is refered to as "Framing" |
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escalating commitment
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tendency to continue with a previously chosen course of action even when it is not working.
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levels of processing theory
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-predicts that the deeper the level of processing, the better the learning and memory
-processing that involves maximizing the meaning of the material is the deepesrt level of processing. making a sentence of the words to remember is the deepest level of processing |
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aggression catharsis hypothesis predicts
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expression of aggressive impulses reduces future aggressiveness
-effects of catharsis depends on certain characteristics of the individual and situation -people emotionally reactive will escalate with catharsis -most effective when its realistic forms of aggresion -reduces arousal only when catharsis is directed at provocateur -initially reduces anger, but can increase the likelihood that a person will respond to provocation with aggression in the future |
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Wisconsin Card Sort
Category Test and Similarities subtest of WAIS |
access frontal lobe damage that impacts initiative, planning and completing tasks in sequence
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criterion deficiency and I/O psych and job performance
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the degree to which the criterion does not adequately measure the conceptual or hypothetical criterion. Job performance is due to several factors, but most criterion measures are deficient b/c they only measure 1 or 2 factors.
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Ethics Codes and consultation
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consult, with a ROI,to serve your clients effectively and appropriately
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Helm's White Racial Identity Model
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1. Contact
2. Disintegration 3. Reintegration 4. Psuedo-independence 5. Immersion-emersion 6. Autonomy the higher the White therapist's stage of identity development, the greater his effectiveness when workign with clients from culturally-diverse groups |
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Hersey and Blanchard's situational leadership model
4 styles of leadership |
1. Participating/supporting
2. Selling/coaching 3. Delegating 4. Telling/directing best when leasership style matches employee developmental level |
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somatosensory cortex:function
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located in parietal lobe and affects sensation of touch
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use of "p" in item test construction
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closer value is to 1.0, the easier the item...close to 1.0 means almost everyone gets it right. find "p" by dividing the total # of examinees by the total # who got the question correct
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if there is a formal Ethics complaint filed about therapist or office staff, therapist must
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respond in writing and in a timely manner
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psuedodementia
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likely to exaggerate memory problems
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Alzheimer's sxs.
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-forgetfulness
-denial of memory impairment -mood and personality changes -loss of interest in usual activities -lower factors scores on WAIS processing speed and perceptual organization. -PET won't pick this up in early stages. |
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Troiden's model of LGBTQ Development
4 stages |
1. Sensitization
2. Identity confusion 3. Identity assumption 4. Commitment |
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Cass's model of LGBTQ Development
6 stages |
1. confusion
2. comparison 3. tolerance 4. acceptance 5. pride 6. synthesis |
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I/O positive halo error
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one or two characteristics influences interviewer and how he evaluates an applicant on other, non-related characteristics, favorably
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I/O contrast effect
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evaluation of Applicant B is effected by previous Applicant A (perhaps negatively or favorably)
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I/O fundamental attribution bias
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tendency to attribute the behavior of others to their personalities and not their situation (context)
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leniency bias
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rater tends to rate everyone highly
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Aggressive children are more likely to respond to punishment with
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aggression
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when teaching a psych course, ethics require that you...
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ensure tha accurate information about the course is available to all interested parties
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Acute Stress disorder dx.
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exposure to an extreme stressor and sxs. of numbing, derealization, depersonalization and dissociative amnesia
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Separation Anxiety Disorder
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anxiety tied to separation from an attachment figure
somatic sxs. and school phobia |
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factors that mediate outcomes for sexual abuse survivors
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-father perp-worse outcomes
-less severe when survivor uses: -disclosing and discussing -minimizing the extent of the abuse -positive reframing of the abuse -refusing to dwell on it |
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use of biodata as predictor of job performance
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-good predictor
-may be criterion dependent, good for training success -includes background info -useful in managerial and nonmanagerial positions |
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diagnostic overshadowing and Reiss, et all
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occurs when the salience of one disorder or condition overshadows consideration or recognition of another
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White and BLack kids recognize race by age?
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10
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phenothiazines are what class drug and most effective with which sxs. of schizophrenia
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typical antipsychotic, positive sxs., delusions, hallucinations, agitation
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negative sxs. of schizophrenia
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social withdrawal
reduced activity poverty of speech |
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explicit memory
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memory that requires conscious recollection
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implicit memory
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automatic memory/unconscious memory
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Korsakoff's syndrome
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caused by thiamine deficiency
related to chronic alcholism greater impairment in explicit memory...can recall events prior to heavy drinking, but not since onset |
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family roles in middle class AA families
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egalitarian spouses
more permable boundaries open to influence of extended family and AA community |
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drugs that impact tardive dyskinesia
1.dopamine depleting 2.norepinephrine levels 3. GABA 4. SSRI's and other serotonergic drugs |
1. alleviates some sxs.
2. decrease levels/surpress sxs. of TD 3. increase levels/decrease sxs. 4. not useful |
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Male Erectile Disorder
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persistent or recurrent inability to attain, or to maintain until comletion of a sexual activity, an adequate erection
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effectiveness of goal setting theory for group productivity
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specific goals with performance feedback is optimal for groups and individuals
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smoking cessation research
1. self-quitters 2. effectiveness of nicotine replacement therapy 3. weight gain 4. heart disease 5. lung disease |
1. 33% last for 2 or more days
2. benefits whether hi or lo dependence (greater the dependence, greater the benefit) 3. men and women gain 6-8 lbs. 4. risk drops w/ cessation 5. risk does not drop w/ cessation |
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post traumatic amnesia have long term deficits in?
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verbal memory
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Antisocial Personality Disorder and the 5 Factor personality analysis score:
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low agreeableness, openness and coscientiousness
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Factitious Disorder
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sxs. are faked or intentionally induced
motivation to adopt a sick role |
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Somatoform Disorders
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Hypochondriasis
Conversion DIsorder |
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Malingering
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feignnig or intentional production of sxs for the purpose of securing attention, avoiding work, an external reward
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Conversion Disorder
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sxs. are not intentionally induced, unconsciously
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duration of post-traumatic amnesia
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correlates with the severity and long-lasting consequences of brain injury
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contralateral neglect
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-caused by damage to the parietal lobe, most often right pariental lobe
-person ignores stimulation on the affected side of the body and may deny ownership of that side of the body |
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temperment (characteristics of)
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stable over time
genetic evident in first months of life |
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Piaget: motivation for development is?
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a drive toward cognitive balance or equilibrium
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Which hemisphere is the dominant hemisphere of the brain for language
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left hemisphere and this does not impact handedness
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emic
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-each culture possesses unique characteristics that have meaning for the society
-culture specific |
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etic
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-view of culture from an outsider's perspective
-not culture specific |
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Types of brain imaging tools
1. CT 2. PET 3. MRI 4. NMR |
1. a structural imaging tool
2. info on brain function 3. a structural imaging tool 4. another name for MRI |
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3 types of deafness
1. conductive 2. sensorineural 3. central |
1. failure of mechanical stimulation to reach the cochlea. caused by infection in the middle ear
2.damage to the hair cells 3. lesions in the auditory cortex |
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damage to the cochlea
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leads to sensorineural deafness
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Piaget stages
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1. sensorimotor: birth - 2 basic skills, object permanence
2. preoperational: 2-7, intuitive rather than logical thought, egocentric 3. concrete: 7-11, general set of rules and regs and the idea of "reversibility" 4. formal:11-16, formulate hypotheses,abstract thinking |
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brain lateralization
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-process in which different functions become specialized in one of the 2 hemispheres
-present in the first few months of life |
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gate control theory
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spinal cord has a mechanism "gate" that can block the transmission of pain to the brain. negative emotions (fear) keep the gate open, so things we're fearful of can cause us more pain
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signal detection theory
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there are no absolute thresholds for sensations and the detection of the stimulation is dependent on the strength of the stimulus and the cost/benefit of detecting (being aware) of the stimulus
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