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Individuals with moderate mental retardation
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can be trained to perform unskilled work under close supervision..
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The function for the correction for attenuation is to
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estimate the correlation between two variables if one or both could be measured witout error.
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Research on relationships btw marital discord and child behavior of school aged children (boy and girl) indicate
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that boys are more likely than girls to manifest an immediate behavior problem.
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A motivational theory predicting that an increase of incentives may serve to reduce work output is:
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intrinsic motivation theory.
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The primary focus of the "systems approach" to the problem of business and industry is to improve:
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organizational performance.
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Assessment centers are different from other methods of personnel selection in their use of ..
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performance based assessment.
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Literature suggests that mothers memories about their their children's developmental and social histories are most accurate about
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motor development and weight gain.
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With regard to minority and non-minority clients, psychotherapy is;
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equally effective.
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John is afraid to travel by bus. A treatment program that relies on graduated exposure to traveling by bus with actual real-life behavioral activities increased across trials is called:
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reinforced practice.
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The neurotransmitter most directly involved with voluntary muscle movement is:
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acetylcholine.
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____ is considered the most important factor to consider during an evaluation of a 60 year old 's fitness evaluation as a fire chief when age is a factor to consider.
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Functional abilitites.
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Individuals who benefit most from crisis group intervention are those who
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have experienced acute onset of significant symptoms.
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The correlations btw two sets of tests scores indicates the:
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proportion of variance in one test associated with variance in the other test.
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In general, children who have a high activity level tend to react to pressure by ..
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increasing non productive motor activity.
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At the termination of an extensive training program, management may expect to find that: ..
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most trainees have improved, but relative standing is generally maintained.
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The most likely use of "in-basket" technique in personnel selection would be with ____ employee.
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Managerial
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What does Fechner's law say about "just noticeable differences"
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They are psychologically equal intervals.
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____ accounts for the largest proportion of variation in therapy outcome?
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pre-existing client factors such as the motivation to change.
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Self control procedures such as those for controlling alcohol abuse are most easily implented:
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early in a response chain.
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The impact of the Hawthorne experiments was in showing the effects ____ on work performance.
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interpersonal and social factors.
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The Standards for Educational Testing and Psychological Testing provides:
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criteria by which tests and manuals should be judged and standards they strive to meet.
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In Bandura's SLT, the concept of self-reinforcement is critical in explaining ____ despite the absence of external reward.
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how learned behavior is maintained over time.
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What does Object relations therapy and Freudian psychodynamic therapy both focus on?
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early childhood experiences.
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Gestalt therapy is designed to achieve integration of ____
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thoughts, feelings, and actions.
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The most objective way for psychotherapists to monitor the quality of their own services is to _____
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objectively check their client's ability to cope with their problems.
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Longitudinal studies of children with specific reading disability states that:
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reading skills of these children do not reach normal levels as the reach adulthood.
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What does reach say about aging and sexual functioning?
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Aging is related to some loss of erectile rigidity in males.
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Converting total number of errors on a test to percent correct and vice versa is a ____ tranformation.
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Linear
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In regard to memory, aging is most closely associated with a decline in ___
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the efficiency of controlled memory processess.
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When basic survival needs have been met, money as a motivator does what?
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plays a less predictable, more complex role.
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___ is a widely used procedure for matching client aptitudes to job requirements?
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multiple cut-off technique.
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___ has the best chance of withstanding legal challenge in a situation where adverse impact on some minority groups have been observed.
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Work sample.
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describe the classic aging pattern as it applies to performance on psychometric tests of intelligence.
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verbal functions are preserved relatively well, but performance descreased on tests of perceptual intergrative ability.
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Humanistic and Existential therapists view ulcers, hypertensions, and tension headaches as:
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symptoms of a loss of contact with personal values.
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Transmission of color blindness to a son by a mother represents a characteristics of her:
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genotype
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____ said about the early babbling of infants from different language communities?
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Babbling contains the full range of phoemes that comprise all languages.
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When the corpus collosum is cut in a right-handed patient, often the patient:
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cannot name an object placed in the left hand if the patient cannot see it.
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Sampling errors refers to
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tendency of sample statistics to differ from population parameters.
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If a test has a SE of estimate of 15 points, it is correct to conclude that:
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about 68% of the individuals with a given true score will have observed scores within + or - 15 points of the true score
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Vocational interest inventories are generally not recommended as
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employment selection devices.
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