Post Test Q's - Summer
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- Acc. to classical test theory, the variance of the obtained test scores is equal to:
- sum of the true score variance & the error variance
- Classic "aging pattern" is what decline on the WISC?
- All Performance subtests
- Inability to understnd words. w/o any loss of ability to speak or hear words is:
- Sensory aphasia
- Standard error of measurement indicates:
- How close an obtained score is to a true score
- Gestalt therapy is designed to achieve integration of:
- Thought, feeling, & action
- Sampling error refers to:
- the tendency of sample statistics to differ from population parameters
- Records should include:
- identifying data, dates of service, fess, treatment plans, summary reports, consultation
- A significant finding for a one-way ANOVA indicates that the _________ means were different:
- population
- Validity is never higher than:
- The square root of the relaibility coefficient
- Diagnosis most associated with completed suicides?
- MDD w/Psychotic Features
- Hippocampus is involved in which 3 aspects of memory:
- Working, explicit, & spatial
- Acc. to feature integration theory, the perception of an object as an entity relies on __________ attention?
- Focused
- Which leadership model uses a "decision tree"?
- Vroom & Yetton's model
- Acc. to IPT, what are the 3 componenets of depression?
- Interperosnal relations, symptom formation, & personality
- Signs of Cocaine & Amphetamine Intoxication:
- Vomiting, pupillary dilation, & confusion
- Beta is the proabability of making a Type ___ error:
- II - retaining a false null hypothesis (failing to detect a true effect)
- Acc. to classical psychoanalytic theory, a Specific Phobia is
- a displacement of unresolved Oedipal fears
- Acc. to Carl Roger's person-centered-therapy, psychopathology is due to:
- Incongruence between the real self and the ideal self
- Acc. to social comparison theory, an individual is more likley to join a group if compared to the individual the group members are_________ in perosnality & ____________ competent
- Similar; equally
- Reframing in family therapy serves to:
- (relabelling or redefining a problem behavior, in order to get the family to see it in a new light)
- The error inherent in the best fit regression line is the standard error of the ________
- estimate (how far off can we expect to be when making predictions based on a regression (predicition) equation)
- Which factors cause attentuation?
- Restricted range, heteroscedasticity, curvilinear relationships
- Behavioral assessments are useful for determining behavioral _________
- Contingencies
- Goal of reality therapy:
- Help clients accept responsibility, by clarifying clients values and evaluating current behavior in relation to these values
- IQ Correlations:
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Sibling reared together = .50
Siblings reared apart = .25
Twins = .75
Parent/child = .45 - Brief psychotherapy is to crisis intervention as:
- Improve is to restore
- Key principle underlying Montessori schhols:
- cognitive development is enhanced by exposure to sensory-motor stimuli
- Types of attention:
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Selective = focus on 1, while ignoring others
Sustained = maintaining attention
Divided = attention split btw. diff. stimuli
Simultaneous = focusing on diff. stimuli - Psychoanalytic perspective on borderline focuses on:
- abandonment rage
- When score are subtracted from the mean & then divided by the SD, the result is:
- Z-scores
- Memory deficits in elderly are most associtaed with:
- shrinkage of the hippocampus
- Most likley to trigger an alcohol relpase?
- Negative emotions
- Biofeddback is most effective for?
- Tension headaches
- Which reinforcement schedule has the lowest resistance to extinction?
- Fixed interval
- It is difficult to diagnose ADHD prior to age 4-5, becuase:
- normative developmental variation
- Anomic aphasia
- inability to name objects
- Acc. to psychoanalytic theory, phobias...
- involve transferring one's feelings from one object to another
- In terms of attitude change, people are least influenced by:
- Knowledge of the facts
- Alloplastic vs. autoplastic interventions:
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Alloplastic = altering env. conditions
Autoplastic = changing the individual - Lifetime prevalance of Bipolar I:
- .4-1.6%
- Cortisol is a steroid secreted by the:
- adrenal cortex
- Rescorla-Wagner theory predicts:
- In classical conditioning, the more surprising the coneection between the CS & US is, the more conditioning
- Kaufman's ABC reflects ______ theory of intelligence?
- Luria's (sequential & simultaneous processing)
- In developing a job performance measure, the "ultimate criterion" is:
- A construct that cannot actually be measured
- Helm's interaction model of counseling notes 4 types of relationships based on attitudes about whites and blacks:
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Parallel = they share similar attitudes
Crossed = oppossing attitudes (bad)
Progressive = Counselor is a stage or more advanced than client
Regressive = Client is a stage or more advanced - Memory impairment in Korsakoff, are due to damage to the:
- Mammillary bodies
- Nicotine may enhance memory & alertness by mimicking______?
- acetycholine
- Woodcock-Johnson is based on:
- Cattel-Horn-Carrol approach to cognitive abilities
- ___________ proposed that orginizational culture acts as a defense maechanism agaisnt anxiety:
- Edgar Schein
- Herbert Simon is known for:
- Bounded rationality & artificial intelligence
- Sampling error is due to:
- randon factors that prduce a nonrepresentative sample
- Postpartum blues rates:
- 50-80% (10-15% - PP depression)
- Sue found which ethnic group to have bext & worst therapy outcomes?
- Hispanics/Blacks
- Petit mal seizures begin in the:
- Thalamus
- At-risk kids for antisocial behavior, are best protected when they have:
- Good relationship with caretaker, social resposivity, & higher IQ's
- Leadership styles in Hersey & Blanchard' model:
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Telling = low ability & willingness
Selling =low ability, high willing
Participatory = high ability & low willing
Delegating = high ability & wiling - Sources of self-efficacy beleifes acc. to Bandura:
- past accomplishments, observations of others, verbal persuasion, & logical verification
- Best predictor of "contextual performance" (extrattask behaiors, i.e.prosocial activities) in orinizations:
- Personality measures
- Patient with Broca, is also likely to manifest:
- Intense anxiety & depression (Wernickes = indifference & paranoia)
- Perry (1986) found that aggressive children....
- beleive that aggression will reduce aversive tx by others
- Lowest score on WISC by deaf child:
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Verbal = Digit span
Performance = Pic Arrangement - Tricyclic drugs block the effectsof:
- AcH in the parasympathetic system
- Amato & Keith found that divorce exerted most negatove effect on:
- Fatherchild relationship, followd by conduct
- We use stepwise multiple regression when we want to:
- identify the fewest number of predictors needed to account for criterion variabiity
- Communality refers to;
- prpoportion of variance accounted for by multiple factors in a single variable
- Primary goal of Helm's in developing her racial identity model:
- diagnose and resolve race-related tensions in the counseling relationship
- Patient with Alzheimer's scores lowest on which 2 WAIS-III factor indexes?
- Processing speed & perceptual orginization
- Acc. to ___________ theory, a person's behavior is motivated (pulled) by the goals he wants to achieve:
- Incentive
- Situations where DSM allows for NOS diagnosis:
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1)Clients symptoms don't meet criteria
2)Symtoms meet criteria for a diagnosis included "Axes for further study"
3)Uncertantity regarding the etiology (medical, substance related)
4) Symtoms seem to fit, but time didn't permit complete data gathering - Acc. to Piaget, what underlies cognitive development:
- Biological maturation & environmental stimulation
- Acc. to the central limit theorem:
- As sample size increases, the shape of a sampling distribution of means becomes more normal
- Connection between psych factors & cancer:
- Role in cure, but not onset
- Anosognosia involves:
- failure to recognize one's own neurological symptoms (such as paralysis)
- Diagnosis of Antisocial Personality requires:
- pervasive pattern of disrefgard for rights of others since age 15, hx of conduct disorder symptoms before 15, & current age of 18 or older
- Troiden's homosexual identity stages:
- sensitization, confusion, assumption, integration
- Male Erectile Disorder requires:
- inability to maintain or attain an erection until completion of sexual activity
- Research on applying goal-setting to groups notes that:
- Performance feedback plus group goals is MORE effective than either alone
- Children with ADHD score lowest on:
- Symbol search, coding, Arithmetic, Digit Span (SCAD)
- Larger groups lead to more social loafing, possibly due to:
- decreased self-attention
- Prosopagnosia is due to damage to the:
- bilateral occipitotemporal area