Questions I got wrong on AR exam #7
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- A loss of memory for autobiographical information is referred to as:
- functional amnesia
- The Acute Phase of rape trauma syndrome is characterized by:
- disbelief
- An elderly man is not able to recognize familiar faces. For example, he doesn't recognize family members until they speak. This condition is referred to as..
- prosopagnosia
- Depressive episodes that occur in a seasonal pattern most likely include:
- hypersomnia (increased sleep)
- An organization decides to implement changes based on a job characteristics assessment. What is least likely to be affected?
- work quality
- The use of two-word sentences, called telegraphic speech, normally appears between the age of..
- 1-2 months
- A therapist who assigns a couple the task of looking for things in their relationship that they would like to continue is most likely using which of the following therapeutic approaches?
- solution focused
- For patients who develop a disturbing degree of hand tremor as the result of taking lithium carbonate, which of the following would be useful?
- Lowering the dose of lithium or administering propranolol (Inderal)
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Traditional psychoanalytic psychotherapy : transference
as Brief therapies : ___ - client insight
- Adding more easy to moderately easy items to a difficult test will:
- decrease the test's floor
- The most common type of work-family conflict is:
- time based
- The purpose of rotation in factor analysis is to facilitate interpretation of the factors. Rotation:
- alters the factor loadings for each variable & the eigenvalue for each factor
- The concept of "identical elements" is most applicable to:
- employee training
- Older adults respond similarly to younger adults, but __
- respond slower
- Research on electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT) suggests that:
- memory deficits are largely reversible although some problems with autobiographical memory may persist for months
- The difference between the General Guidelines for Providers of Psychological Services and the Ethical Principles of Psychologists is that the former:
- Speciality guidelines deal with delivery of services to consumers, & General guidelines deal with ethics in general
- How long does brief psychotic disorder last?
- 1 month
- Tendency to focus solely on a detail that is taken out of context is called...
- seletive abstraction
- If an emotionally-charged event is expressively suppressed it is less likely to be...
- remembered
- Which of the "Big Five" personality traits is most associated with Antisocial Personality Disorder?
-
high on neuroticism,
low on agreeableness, &
low on conscientiousness - From the perspective of Beck's cognitive therapy, suicidal individuals are characterized by a high degree of hopelessness coupled with:
- poor problem-solving skills
- There is some evidence that children of divorced parents have more academic problems than children from intact families and that..
- boys of divorced families exhibit poorer academic performance than girls of divorced families
- According to Fiedler's contingency model, a task-oriented leader, also called low LPC, is most effective when...
- the task is very structured or very unstructured
- In Dissociative Amnesia, memory loss is usually for information acquired...
- after the emotional trauma
- The tendency to seek, interpret, and create information that verifies our existing beliefs is called..
- confirmatory bias
- Once exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the process of converting from antibody negative to antibody positive is referred to as..
- seroconversion
- The recurrence of hallucinations long after intoxication is most likely to result from the use of
- mescaline
- Fetishism involves..
- the use of non living objects
- Transvestic Fetishism involves...
- Cross-dressing fantasies
- Frotteurism involves..
- touching or rubbing against a nonconsenting person
- Which portion of the ethical code “discusses the intent, organization, procedural considerations, and scope of application of the Ethics Code�
- introduction
- Which 2 parts of the ethics code provides “aspirational goals to guide psychologists toward the highest ideals of psychology.â€
- preamble & general princles
- Which part of the code is enforceable?
- standards
- According to Berry's acculturation model, marginalization is characterized by:
- low involvement in both the mainstream culture & the minority culture
- According to social comparison theory, individuals look ___ to validate their own opinions
- to similar others
- The halo effect can be ___ or ___
- positive or negative
- The primary associated feature of the Somatoform Disorders is
- anxiety and depression
- Children generally begin to recognize racial differences based on physical traits between:
- age 3-4
- Children become able to accurately label themselves:
- age 5-9
- African-American families use an authority structure that can be best characterized as:
- egalitarian
- If an employee's ability and willingness to accept responsibility are both low a leader should adopt which type of style?
- telling
- A sequence of behaviors, in which each behavior serves as reinforcement for the previous behavior, is the outcome of..
- chaining
- Opisthotonus refers to..
- refers to whole body spasm
- The somatosensory cortex is located in which part of the parietal lobe?
- the postcentral gyrus
- The Working Memory scale is comprised of the WISC-III subtests of...
- arithmetic & digit span
- Which of the following best describes the purpose of reframing in family therapy?
- increase the family's compliance with the therapist's directives & the treatment plan in general
- The preferred treatment for Agoraphobia is
- in-vivo exposure with response prevention
- Among people at high-risk for AIDS the best intervention to reduce risk taking behavior is...
- providing knowledge
- Among people at low-risk for AIDS the best intervention to reduce risk taking behavior is...
- peer norms
- In industrial settings, administration of a trainability test would be done for the purposes of determining whether..
- the examinee is likely to do well on a job sample
- A Caucasian comes to a stage where he does not want to have racist views. According to Helms, which stage of identity development is this person in?
- Immersion-Emersion
- A client believes his work performance is below average because he feels like a failure. This is an example of:
- emotional reasoning
- Social displacement syndrome is..
- psychiatric disorders among immigrants and refugees are most frequent somewhere between 1-3 years after they immigrate to this country
- From the perspective of operant conditioning, depression is the result of:
- prolonged extinction schedule
- ADHD linked to abnormalities in the following brain structures...
- frontal lobe, striatum, & cerebellum
- Some potential side effects of Propranolol (Inderal) are:
- depression and bradycardia
- Bowen's approach to family therapy was strongly influenced by:
- psychodynamic theory
- Componential, experiential, and practical are the three aspects of which intelligence model?
- Sternberg
- According to the Ohio State University studies from the 1950s, what are the two dimensions of leadership?
- consideration & initiating structure
- Determining test-retest reliability would be most appropriate a ___ test
- trait
- A person with Somatization Disorder is most likely to also have a diagnosis of...
- personality disorder
- The most frequent complaints among individuals diagnosed with Undifferentiated Somatoform Disorder include:
- Chronic fatigue, loss of appetite, gastrointestinal, or genitourinary symptoms
- Research suggests that the best single treatment for Agoraphobia is:
- flooding or in-vivo exposure with response prevention
- The combined efforts of all group members will determine if the tasks are completed and team members receive a bonus describes a __ task.
- additive
- As a successfully licensed psychologist, you are supervising your first intern. You need to..
- inform your intern that he needs to let his clients know he is in supervision
- Experimenters find conformity is lowest when the:
- subject has a "partner" in the group who shares his or her opinion
- Baumrind in 1964 indicated that whose study was unethical?
- Milgram
- Although in brief psychotherapy a full-scale transference neurosis is discouraged, ___ is seen as an important contributor to therapy progress
- positive transference
- When performing cognitive tests, most older adults are able to best perform at what time of day:
- morning
- Transitivity occurs during what Piaget stage?
- concrete operational
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy & antidepressant medication in the treatment of depression indicate that..
- both equally effective
- In working with a triangulated family, a structural family therapist would..
- upset the family's balance
- The cingulate cortex is part of the __ and is also called the __
-
limbic system
satisfaction center - Children with Learning Disorders have ___ rates of some disorders &, as adults, continue to exhibit ___ problems than members of the general population
-
higher
more - Idealized influence refers to..
- high moral & ethical standards
- Cortisol is frequently used as measure of:
- stress
- Emotional responses such as anger and fear are mediated by which of the following brain structures?
- amygdala
- According to current research, the best predictor(s) for alcoholism would be..
- family history of alcoholism
- Scores on the WAIS-III are:
- standard scores