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Psychological reactance
When an individual has been asked to do something and does the opposite
Typical onset for Panic Disorder
Late adolescence and mid 30s
How is Cohen’s d calculated
By subtracting the mean of the control group from the mean of the experimental group and dividing the result by the control group standard deviation or by a pooled standard deviation
Prosodic bootstrapping
Children find and use clues to syntactic structure of language in the prosodic (intonation, stress) characteristics of speech they hear.
Interpersonal justice
How an individual is treated by a supervisor or third party involved in executing procedures or determining outcomes.
Seropositive
HIV positive
Autosomal genetic disorder
Occur in the presence of only one gene on a chromosome that is not a sex chromosome
Difference between summative and formative evaluations
Summative evaluations deal with whether a program has achieved its intended objectives
Formative evaluation address issues related to the implementation of the program.
What correlation is used when one variable is continuous and the other is an artificial dichotomy
Biserial coefficient
Beutler’s therapy
Eclectic and based on the paradigm of specific treatments for specific conditions and that the therapist, therapist-client relationships, and interactions variables are more important than specific techniques
What happened in the prisoner’s dilemma game
People tend to compete straight away and be suspicious and hostile towards others.
Stages of Baumgartner’s incorporation of HIV/AIDS diagnosis into identity
1) Diagnosis
2) Post-diagnosis turning point
3) Immersion
4) Post-immersion turning point
5) Integration
6) Disclosure
Maximizing law
Proposes animals will respond in a manner to achieve the maximum rate/number of rewards possible
Who is associated with the ecological model
Bronfenbrenner
Cognitive constructivism
Based on Piaget’s work that proposes that humans construct knowledge through their experiences with the world.
Equilibration
A state of cognitive balance. The need for balance is what motivates the individual to assimilate and accommodate new information
CPAP
Used for the treatment of sleep apnea
Neurotransmitter associated with Tourette’s
Dopamine
Interpersonal psychotherapy premise
Short-term approach to the treatment of depression and focused on 4 problem areas: grief, role disputes, role transitions, and interpersonal deficits.
Lazarus’ MultiModal Therapy acronym
BASIC ID - Categories of interrelated aspects of personality which need to be address for effective treatment
B - Behavior A - Affect S - Sensation I - Imagery C - Cognition I - Interpersonal relationships D - Need for drugs or other biological functioning
Cataplexy
A sudden loss of partial or complete muscle tone during excitement or arousal
Alpha
The level of significance set by a researcher prior to analyzing data
Distributive justice
The perceived fairness of outcomes
Reinforced practice
Involves practicing approaching and confronting a feared situation or object to make confronting it easier and individual is rewarded when they do so.
What correlation is used when the variables are ranks
Spearman rho
Interpersonal psychotherapy is based on the work of
Sullivan
Theory associated with Wittrock
Generative Learning Model
That learners construct meaning from the connections of previous learning and experience with new knowledge or unfamiliar experiences
Two major roles of a group therapist per Yalom
1) Keep the group focused on the here-and-now
2) Help illuminate process
What correlation is used when both variables are measured on a nominal scale
Contingency coefficient
Age for first step
12 months
Continuous recording
Recording all behaviors of the target during each observation session
Overregularization
Grammatical errors whereby a child uses a regular form for a word when the correct form is irregular (i.e. holded instead of held)
Duration recording
Recording the elapsed time during which the target behavior occurs.
Changing criterion
A type of single case design involving a series of phases in which a differing behavioral criterion is set for each.
Convergent thinking
The ability to group or analyze divergent ideas usually leading to a unifying concept or single solution
Partial or focal seizures
Typically begin with uncontrollable twitching of a small part of the body which expands.
What impact does Methylphenidate have on neurotransmitters
It is a norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitor so it increases the availability of both.
Theory associated with Bruner
Discovery learning
Greater learning occurs when individuals engage in situations to question,explore, and experiment for themselves.
Family Anxiety Management
Teaches parents to reward the child for confronting feared situation or object, and ignore excessive complaining when confronted with feared situation or object.
Typical symptoms associated with children of parents with PTSD
Depression Anxiety Self-blame Aggression Hyperactivity Social withdrawal
Cohen’s D
Used as an index of effect size, but is a measure of the mean difference between 2 groups
Disjunctive tasks
The group must choose one of many alternative ways to do the task.
Engineering psychologists
Tend to examine the factors making up the job and how those impact the worker
Motivators vs hygiene factors
Motivators increase satisfaction
Hygiene factors prevent dissatisfaction
Seroconversion
The development of antibodies to a particular antigen or the conversion from seronegative to seropositive as a result of the presence of antibodies
Marfan’s syndrome
Affects the connective tissue
False fame effect
When subjects remember the names but could not recall where they had encountered the name so they conclude that the individual were famous
Stimulus control
Involves manipulating cues, or stimuli in the environment that, when present, increase the probability of a particular response.
Guilford’s theory of intellligence
Convergent and divergent thinking
