Post Test #6 05.30.06
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- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- characterized by: excessive worry, and about a # of events, and difficulty controlling worry
- spatial perception of 2 month old with shallow and deep visual cliffs
- heart rate DECREASES as infant show interest in the deep end, but do not yet have a fear of heights
- anosognosia
- with brain injury, it is a failure to recognize one's own disability.
- all agnosias are charaterized by:
- failure of recognition NOT due to sensory deficit or verbal or intellectual impairment
- serial position effect (and long term/short term memory)
- 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
- schema
- an integrated cluster of knowledge about a concept
- script
- tells you what to do in certain situations, like a movie script
- a T score distribution has a mean of ____ and a SD of ___
- 50 and 10
- A T score of 60 in a normal shaped distribution lies in what % rank?
- 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
- 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. - 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 -
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 - 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" - escalating commitment
- tendency to continue with a previously chosen course of action even when it is not working.
- 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 - 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 -
Wisconsin Card Sort
Category Test and Similarities subtest of WAIS - access frontal lobe damage that impacts initiative, planning and completing tasks in sequence
- criterion deficiency and I/O psych and job performance
- 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.
- Ethics Codes and consultation
- consult, with a ROI,to serve your clients effectively and appropriately
- 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 -
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 - somatosensory cortex:function
- located in parietal lobe and affects sensation of touch
- use of "p" in item test construction
- 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
- if there is a formal Ethics complaint filed about therapist or office staff, therapist must
- respond in writing and in a timely manner
- psuedodementia
- likely to exaggerate memory problems
- 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. -
Troiden's model of LGBTQ Development
4 stages -
1. Sensitization
2. Identity confusion
3. Identity assumption
4. Commitment -
Cass's model of LGBTQ Development
6 stages -
1. confusion
2. comparison
3. tolerance
4. acceptance
5. pride
6. synthesis - I/O positive halo error
- one or two characteristics influences interviewer and how he evaluates an applicant on other, non-related characteristics, favorably
- I/O contrast effect
- evaluation of Applicant B is effected by previous Applicant A (perhaps negatively or favorably)
- I/O fundamental attribution bias
- tendency to attribute the behavior of others to their personalities and not their situation (context)
- leniency bias
- rater tends to rate everyone highly
- Aggressive children are more likely to respond to punishment with
- aggression
- when teaching a psych course, ethics require that you...
- ensure tha accurate information about the course is available to all interested parties
- Acute Stress disorder dx.
- exposure to an extreme stressor and sxs. of numbing, derealization, depersonalization and dissociative amnesia
- Separation Anxiety Disorder
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anxiety tied to separation from an attachment figure
somatic sxs. and school phobia - 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 - 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 - diagnostic overshadowing and Reiss, et all
- occurs when the salience of one disorder or condition overshadows consideration or recognition of another
- White and BLack kids recognize race by age?
- 10
- phenothiazines are what class drug and most effective with which sxs. of schizophrenia
- typical antipsychotic, positive sxs., delusions, hallucinations, agitation
- negative sxs. of schizophrenia
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social withdrawal
reduced activity
poverty of speech - explicit memory
- memory that requires conscious recollection
- implicit memory
- automatic memory/unconscious memory
- 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 - 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 -
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 - Male Erectile Disorder
- persistent or recurrent inability to attain, or to maintain until comletion of a sexual activity, an adequate erection
- effectiveness of goal setting theory for group productivity
- 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 - post traumatic amnesia have long term deficits in?
- verbal memory
- Antisocial Personality Disorder and the 5 Factor personality analysis score:
- low agreeableness, openness and coscientiousness
- Factitious Disorder
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sxs. are faked or intentionally induced
motivation to adopt a sick role - Somatoform Disorders
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Hypochondriasis
Conversion DIsorder - Malingering
- feignnig or intentional production of sxs for the purpose of securing attention, avoiding work, an external reward
- Conversion Disorder
- sxs. are not intentionally induced, unconsciously
- duration of post-traumatic amnesia
- correlates with the severity and long-lasting consequences of brain injury
- 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 - temperment (characteristics of)
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stable over time
genetic
evident in first months of life - Piaget: motivation for development is?
- a drive toward cognitive balance or equilibrium
- Which hemisphere is the dominant hemisphere of the brain for language
- left hemisphere and this does not impact handedness
- emic
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-each culture possesses unique characteristics that have meaning for the society
-culture specific - etic
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-view of culture from an outsider's perspective
-not culture specific -
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 -
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 - damage to the cochlea
- 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 - 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 - gate control theory
- 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
- signal detection theory
- 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