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- Bronfenbrenner's concept of a microsystem in his ecological model deals with?
- individual's immediate environment & includes parents, siblings, classmates, & teachers
- A period of persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood demonstrates what episode?
- Hypomanic Episode
- Individuals in a hypomanic epidsode may demonstrate positive qualities such as...
- increased productivity, efficiency, and creativity
- The "classic" performance equation is P = f{A X M} means...
- performance is a function of ability and motivation
- What 2 characteristics have not found to be highly correlated with performance?
- neither interest nor satisfaction
- Which 2 types of drugs may lead to anticholinergic effects?
- tricyclics & heterocyclics
- Which drug type will not likely lead to anticholinergic effects?
- SSRI's
- What is the most commonly associated features of Tourette's Disorder?
- obsessions & compulsions
- What affect does maternal deprivation in the first few years of life have on children developing attachments to their adopted parents?
- does not necessarily prevent children from developing strong attachments even if adoption occurs as late as 4-6 years old
- Blocking occurs when?
- a CS is presented simultaneously with a second stimulus just before the US
- What does the ethics code say about sliding scales?
- it does not explicitly talk about sliding scales so as long as they are fair and serve the best interests of the client, sliding scale fees are generally considered acceptable
- The variable most directly associated with a need for personal space?
- cultural background
- What happens when interviewers are given biodata information about an interviewee prior to the interview?
- interviewers give less credence to interview information when the biodata is not supportive of a decision to hire
- What do IPT therapists focus on?
- not the past - they focus on the connection between the presenting problem and client's current relationships
- Sexual dimorphism is...
- any consistent differences between males and females in size or shape
-
What is the relationship between thermal & relaxation?
What is the relationship between EMG & relaxation? -
thermal > relaxation
EMG = relaxation - The most important factor found to exist as a criterion for initial attraction between people who have just met is
- physical attractiveness
- Administrative decision making involves making what type of choice?
- a satisficing one... meaning the one that is minimally acceptable
- What is the difference between the multiple hurdle and the multiple cut-off selection technique?
- in multiple hurdle, not all predictors are administered to all examinees
- Research has found that flexible work schedules have the greatest impact on
- absenteeism
- George Kelly, the first cognitive theorist, emphasized that people view the world through...
- cognitive schemas
- What does the Self-in-relation theory say about infant to adult development?
- individuals progress from infantile dependency to mature interdependency
- Adler states psychopathology is caused by?
- maladaptive "style of life"
- Suicide rate is highest for
- white males
- Memory loss in malingering identified by...
- memory loss of personal identity but intact memory for other past events
- Dissociative disorder different from malingering because...
- involves memory loss of personal identity and loss of memory for other information
- Eating foods containing tyramine while taking MAOIs is likely to cause a
- hypertensive crisis
- Retrograde amnesia in Korsakoff's syndrome involves...
- loss of recent long-term memories
- Relationship between therapist experience and patient outcome is strongest when...
- patient symptoms are severe
- What effect can neurotransmitters have on post synaptic cells?
- excitatory or inhibitory
- Cocaine blocks the reuptake of which neurotransmitter?
- dopamine
- Decreased need for sleep, inflated self-esteem, & excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that are likely to result in painful consequences describes a...
- manic episode
- Drowsiness, impaired psychomotor abilities, & impaired short-term memory (particularly anterograde amnesia) are side effects of which drug...
- benzodiazepines
- Huntington's disease is associated with decreased levels of
- GABA
- Alzheimer's dementia affects which memory?
- declarative memory
- When can psych's withhold a client's record due to nonpayment?
- when records are not needed for emergency treatment
- Reduced awareness of environment, distractibility, changes in cognition, memory loss, disorientation to time and place, & impaired language indicate...
- delirium
- A term associated with multiple-regression in which two or more predictors are highly correlated with each other...
- multicollinearity
- Psychoanalytic theory and ethology both emphasize...
- critical periods
- Yalom argues that the most important characteristic of a group member is...
- motivation
- How does non-consensual childhood sexual abuse affect males or females?
- affects both similarly
- Ellen Berscheid's Emotion-in-Relationships Model states partners underestimate their investment when...
- things are running smoothly
- “Terminal drop†means...
- months before death, a substantial drop in all facets of intelligence occurs
- Who has the highest rates of admission to inpatient mental health facilities?
- never married men
- Study that would be considered most unethical in today's times is...
- Milgram's
- Buckely Amendment or the Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act state what 2 things...
-
1. right of access to to educational records & can challenge any content.
2. records that are no longer useful or relevant are to be destroyed - How is the recall in depression different from recall in dementia?
- In depression, recall memory is affected but recognition memory is not; in dementia, both are impaired
- What did Cattell and Horn believe about crystallized & fluid intelligence?
- these two aspects of intelligence are highly correlated
- How did Cattell & Horn believe that crystallized intelligence develops?
- crystallized intelligence develops through the use of fluid intelligence
- Yalom stated procedural norms are...
- procedures that a group follows
- Vygotsky's work has most influenced which of the teaching strategy?
- reciprocal teaching
- When are researchers obligated to inform subjects about the effectiveness of a treatment?
- at the end of the study
- Which agency's publication provides information about styles of research writing, such as how to refer to various minority groups?
- APA
-
VIQ > PIQ may indicate...
PIQ > VIQ may indicate... -
depression or alot of educational experiences
low SES, delinquency, or lack of educational experiences - Dementia due to Head Trauma is usually nonprogressive when...? When is it progressive...?
-
a single head trauma
repeated head trauma - Stuttering onset is commonly around...
- age 5 but rarely after age 10
- Parents who raise kids to be aggressive tend to be what 2 things:
- laissez-faire rules & intermittently violent
- Psychoanalytic theory believes that mania represents a defense against?
- depression
- Which theorist talked about a shift from “time from birth†to “time to death�
- Neugarten
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1. Can psychologists refuse to service clients with certain disorders?
2. If they decide not to service them, what MUST they do? -
1. Yes
2. make appropriate referral - Acetylcholine causes muscles to...
- contract
- How is acetylcholine different from GABA?
- although absence of GABA may lead to muscle contraction, acetylcholine specifically related to muscle contraction
- Norepinephrine helps to regulate....
- mood, dreaming, & arousal
- Serotonin is associated with...
- moods, drives, & personality
- In psychoanalytic practice, transference is a sign that...
- treatment is having an effect & is discussed so that the patient is made conscious of it
- Why is a speeded test completely opposite of a power test?
-
speeded- very little time for easy items
power- lots of time for easy to difficult items - Sue & Sue (2003) define an invisible veil as lack of awareness of one's...
- world views
- When are environmental factors likely to have a greater impact on Bipolar disorder?
- during the early stages of the disorder
- Ethnic matching of therapist and client improves therapy outcome and reduces premature termination for... but not for...
-
Asians, Hispanics,
but not for Blacks - What is not a proposed axis for further study according to the DSM-IV-TR?
- Sickness Impact Profile
- Although Buckley Amendment has several rules about student records what 2 things are NOT required?
-
1. written consent to release info. to child's new school
2. consent to release non-identifying info. to evaluate a federally funded program - Reasoning from a particular fact to a general rule is...
- inductive reasoning
- Understanding that one thing can stand for another
- symbolic thought
- Reasoning from a general law to a particular case
- deductive reasoning
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Disorder that may or may not have a physiological component but are not directly caused by a known physiological factor.
Give an example... -
funtional disorder
depression - What long term effectiveness does nicotine replacement interventions have?
- only effective long-term when combined with other interventions
- Rapid onset, insomnia, decreased heart rate, increased appetite, & depressed or dysphoric mood describes...
- nicotine withdrawal
- Engineering psychology focuses on...
- fitting aspects of the job to the worker
- A therapeutic approach designed to help clients build commitment, resolve ambivalence, and reach a decision to change
- motivational interviewing
- Classical Adlerian psychotherapy has how many stages?
- progression through 12 stages
- Infant IQ not a good predictor of adult IQ but...
- predicts better for low IQ babies so good as a screener for high risk babies
- The gonadotropic hormones, in males and females, are released by...
- pituitary gland
- Brainstorming as a group technique is generally not too effective because...
- produces fewer ideas & the quality is poorer
- A lower estrogen level can cause ___ during intercourse
- discomfort
- Backwards conditioning occurs when...
- the UCS is repeatedly presented before the CS
- Bandara's study showed that when the model is punished, ___ decreases but ___ does not decrease..
- performance of aggressive behaviors is reduced BUT not learning of aggressive behaviors is not reduced
- Whenever you see any symptoms that might have a medical or psychiatric basis it's always good to recommend a ___... but if it's not available recommend a ___
-
a physical exam
psychiatric - The greater the range of scores in the predictor(s) & the criterion score
- the higher the validity coefficient
- Super's (1992) concept that relates the five life stages of growth, exploration, establishment, maintenance, and disengagement to nine major life roles is called...
- life career rainbow