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Turner Syndrome
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-result of chromosomal deletion (part or all of chrom is missing)
-occurs in females -they do not develop secondary sex characteristics during puberty -short -a thick, webbed neck - usu infertile (lack of normal ovaries) - usu mild learning problems |
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suicide in adolescence - influence of 1 or 2 parent home
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girls and boys from single-parent families are both at higher risk than girls and boys from dual-parent families
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separation test
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helps determine factitious disorder by proxy
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to assess level of consciousness following TBI
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Glasgow Coma Scale
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amphetamine, cocaine, and phencyclidine withdrawal
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can produce psychotic sx that can last for weeks or longer despite removal of the drug & tx with an antipsychotic
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Weber's Law
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- "just-noticeable difference" in a stimulus is proportional to the magnitude of the original stim.
-This is why a whisper is audible in a quiet room but not in a noisy room. |
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implicit memory
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-memory that is automatic or effortless
-not affected by age and by most conditions that affect explicit memory, such as Korsakoff's |
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flex schedule has biggest influence on
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absenteeism
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To calculate a confidence interval of 95%
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-multiply the standard error of measurement by 1.96 and add and subtract the result from the examinee's score.
-if SEM is 5, then add and subtract 10 from person's score |
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item difficulty
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the probability that an examinee with a given level of the ability measured by the test will answer the item correctly
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pregnancy rates among females aged 15 to 24 are currently the highest for
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African Americans
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women with the highest lifetime rate of domestic violence
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American Indians
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TBI and perf on the WAIS
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Processing Speed affected the most, followed by working memory
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4-day work week has a positive influence on...
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supervisor ratings of employee performance, employee overall job satisfaction, and employee satisfaction with the work schedule
- no impact on absenteeism or objective measures of performance |
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interrupted time series design
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-single-group design
-the DV is measured at regular intervals before and after the treatment is applied. |
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chi square test is sensitive to...
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-sample size
-large samples produce a significant effect even when there is a small difference between the proposed model and the obtained data. |
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children in day care
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-high-quality early child care is associated with enhanced pre-academic (cognitive) skills and language at age 4-1/2.
-But, higher disobedience, aggression, and other behavioral problems |
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universal emotions
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-happiness, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, surprise, and contempt.
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ipsative
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compares an examinee’s scores on several scales to his/her own performance or preferences
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AA service utilization
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compared to EAs, African-Americans have lower rates for outpatient services but higher rates for public inpatient services
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Sternberg's model of IQ
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componential, experiential, and practical
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Berscheid and Walster's (1974) two-factor theory of love
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love is physio arousal and a label for it
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According to Sternberg, optimistic people
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make external, specific, and temporary attributions for negative events
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James Lange Theory of Emotions
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-emotions are perceptions of bodily reactions
-emph the role of visceral and muscular reactions |
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Fathers of kids with ADHD
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tend to rate their children’s behaviors as less problematic than mothers do
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Expectancy theory: work motivation depends on three beliefs
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expectancy, instrumentality, and valence
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Beck's diathesis stress model: diathesis is...
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dysfunctional attitudes
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inoculation
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-reduce a listener's susceptibility to a persuasive message.
-warning the listener of the impending persuasive message; making a weak attack against the listener's position; and having the listener actively defend his/her position |
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Catharsis aggression model
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-aggressive impulses "build up" inside an individual and must be released and that such release reduces the risk for future aggression
-not well supported |
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confirmation bias
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tendency to seek or pay attention only to information that confirms our beliefs
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extinction burst
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temporary increase in behavior that occurs when reinforcement is removed
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multiple baseline design
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useful when you want to avoid having to control (remove) an effective treatment during the course of the study
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Sherif: 3 categories of judgment
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latitude of acceptance, latitude of non-commitment, and latitude of rejection
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According to Rutter, increase resiliency by:
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Reducing risk impact, reducing negative chain reactions, promoting self-esteem and self-efficacy, and providing opportunities
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false recollections are assoc with lesions where?
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frontal lobe
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inter-rater reliability
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-correlate the scores assigned by two or more raters (the kappa statistic)
-calculate percent agreement. |
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Buckley Ammendment
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parents have the right to inspect and review their children's school records and challenge the contents of records
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successful mastery modeling
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due to guided practice and early success
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Tarasoff applies to
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clearly identifiable person or to a class (group) of persons
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Maslow's hierarchy
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physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self-actualization
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self-in-relation therapy
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-combines feminist theory with object relations theory.
-emphasizes relational (rather than self) development. -focus is on the mutuality between mothers and their daughters |
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alloplastic
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changing or adapting to the environment by effecting changes in the environment.
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autoplastic
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-self-change
-changing or adapting to the environment by altering one’s own behaviors or responses. |
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rotating the factors
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-changes the factor loadings for the variables and the eigenvalue for each factor
-Rotation alters the factor loadings for each variable and the eigenvalue for each factor (although the total of the eigenvalues remains the same). |
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tolerance
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the need to increase the amount of the drug to achieve desired effects or a markedly diminished effect of the drug with continued use of the same amount
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Prader Willi
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-MR and obesity
-due to chromosomal deletion |
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habituation
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person desires a drug but does not experience adverse effects when he/she discontinues it
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increase in preterm births from '89 to '96 was greatest for
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whites
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Seratonin and EDs
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high levels of serotonin precipitate starvation in Anorexia while low levels precipitate binge eating in Bulimia
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IQ for bio sibs raised together
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.45
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Klinefelter's
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-in males
-two or more X (female) chromosomes in addition to a single Y chromosome. - --Sx: -small testicles -infertility -enlarged breast tissue -scant facial/body hair -decreased libido. |
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Baumrind: authoritarian, authoritative, or permissive.
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-permissive parents: kids are "impulsive-aggressive."
-authoritative parents: kids are "energetic-friendly." -authoritarian parents: kids are "conflicted-irritable" – i.e., fearful, moody, easily annoyed, and aimless. |
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According to the Cleary (1968) model, test bias is evaluated by
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-comparing the test's regression lines for members of different groups
-According to the Cleary model, if a test has the same regression line for members of both groups, the test is not biased even it if has different means for the groups. |
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Berscheid's (1989) "emotion-in-relationship" model predicts
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-long-term partners are more likely than newly-weds to underestimate their emotional investment in a marital relationship
-Disruptions in organized sequences of behavior (established behavior patterns) – and the resulting emotional response – are more likely in the early stages of a relationship than in its later stages |
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GABA
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-inhibitatory neurotransmitter
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Compared to EAs, how to Asian Americans respond to meds?
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require lower doses to obtain the same therapeutic effects and experience more severe side effects from the same dose
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Speed accuracy tradeoff
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when teaching complex motor skills that require both speed and accuracy for successful performance, the best strategy is to initially emph speed over accuracy
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Virginia Satir's approach to family therapy emphasizes
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styles of communication:
placater, blamer, super-reasonable, irrelevant, and congruent |
