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Behavioral Science Flashcards

1
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formula for incidence rate

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new cases/ population at risk

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prevalence

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all cases/ population at risk

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point prevalence

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all known cases of disease at certain point/total population at risk

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crude mortality rate

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deaths / populaitno

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5
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cause specific mortality rate

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deaths from a cause/ population

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case fatality rate

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deaths from a cause/ all people with disease

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proportion mortality rate

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deaths from cause / all deaths

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8
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sensitivity

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proportion of truly diseased people

Tp/(Tp+Fn)

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9
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false negative rate

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1-sensitivity

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10
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specificity

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people who do not have the disease

TN/(TN+FP)

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11
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false positive rate

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1-specificity

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12
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positive predictive value

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the person with a positive test really does have the disease

TP/(TP+FP)

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negative predictive value

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probability that someone with a negative test is a true negative
TN/(TN+FN)

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14
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formula for accuracy

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(TP+TN)/(TP+TN+FP+FN)

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15
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reliability

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the ability of a test to measure something consistently

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16
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validity

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degree to which a test measure what is intended

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selection bais

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the sample selected doesn’t accurately represent the population

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18
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measurement bias

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information is gathered in a way that distorts the information (using leading questions )

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Hawthorne effect

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when the subjects behavior is altered because they know they are being watched

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20
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experimenter expectancy (Pygmalion Effect)

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the experimenters expectations are inadvertently communicated to the subjects who then give the desired effects

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Lead time bias

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give a false estimate of survival rates (early detection is confused with increased survival rates)

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recall bias

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subject fails to accurately recall events in the past

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late look bias

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individuals with severe diseases are less likely to be uncovered in a survey because they die first

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confounding bias

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factor being examined is related to other factors of less interest (example: comparing exercise and heart disease in two populations when one population is younger then the other )

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design bias

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parts of the study don’t fit together to answer the question of interest

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cohort study

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people who have been exposed to a risk factor versus those who have not

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cross sectional study

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presence or abscens of a disease and other variables

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28
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relative risk `

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incidence rate of an exposed group divided by the incidence rate of an unexposed group (infant mortality in whites is 8 and in blacks its 18, divid 18 by 8 and get 2, blacks are twice as likely to die)

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attributable risk

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exposed group minus the unexposed group

30
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odds ratio (used to measure case-control)

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odds of the exposure for cases divided by odds of exposure for controls
(odds that a person with lung cancer was a smoker versus a person with lung cancer that wasn’t a smoker)

31
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mean

A

average of the numbers

32
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median

A

the middle point

33
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mode

A

most frequently occurring number

34
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what does the null hypothesis state

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that the findings of the study are of random factors and chance

35
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smaller p values are more?

A

significant

36
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if p is

A

reject it

37
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rejecting the null hypothesis when you shouldn’t (p>0.05)

A

type 2 B error

38
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Not rejecting the null hypothesis when you should (p

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type 1 error

39
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id

A

animalistic instinctive urges, sex, aggression, primary processes

40
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ego

A

rational and language based executors linking to reality

41
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superego

A

the conscience and moral compass. insist on social acceptable behavior

42
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person attributes his wishes and desires or emotions to someone else.
a man who cheated on his wife is convinced that his wife is cheating on him

A

projection

43
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people or things in the world are either all good or all bad

A

splitting

44
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temporary block in thinking or an inability to remember

Mr. J you are suffering from…. i can’t remember what its called)

A

blocking

45
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returning to an earlier age of development (Acting childish)

A

regression

46
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psychic derivatives are converted into bodily symptoms.

Getting a headache while taking a test

A

somatization

47
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features of the external world are taken in and made part of the self (identification)

A resident dresses and acts like the attending doctor

A

introjection

48
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changing the target of an emotion

a man who is angry at his boss pounds on his desk

A

displacement

49
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an idea or feeling is eliminated from conscious

a child who was abused by mom and was treated for the abuse now has no memory of mistreatment from the mother

A

repression

50
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reality is accepted but without the expected human emotional response to that reality

a child who has been beaten discusses the beatings without any splay of emotion

A

isolation of effect

51
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affect is gone and replaced with an excessive use of intellectual processes

A

intellectualization

52
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massive emotional or behavioral outburst to cover up underlying feelings or idea

” Whistling in the dark” hides the underlying fear

A

acting out

53
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rational explanations are used to justify attitudes, believes or behaviors that are not acceptable

Yes i believe killing is wrong, but i killed him because he really really deserved it

A

rationalization

54
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an unacceptable impulse is turned into the opposite

Two coworkers fight all the time because they are actually attracted to each other

A

Reaction Formation

55
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acting out the reverse of an unacceptable behavior

a man who is sexually aroused by another woman goes home and buys flowers for his wife

A

undoing

56
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separates self from ones experience

a woman who was rapes reports as if she watched it happen to herself

A

dissociation

57
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impulse gratification is achieved by channeling the unacceptable or unattainable impulse into a socially acceptable direction.

man who is attracted to a female associate becomes her mentor

A

sublimation

58
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conscious decision to postpone attention to an impulse or conflict

student decides to forget about a test to go have fun on Friday

A

suppression

59
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treatment for narcoplepsy

A

Modafinil
Gamma Hydroxybutyrate (redues daytime sleepiness)
antidepressants

60
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bruxism occurs in what stage

A

2

61
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tx for bed wetting

A

desmopressin or imipramine

62
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tx for sleep walking

A

benzodiapeine

63
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bizarre delusions, blunted affect, hallucinations and disturbance in behavior

> 6 mos
1 to 30 days

A

schizophrenia
schizophreniform
brief psychotic disorder

64
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positive schizophrenia symptoms are associated with what receptors

A

DA

65
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negative schizophrenia symptoms are associated with what receptors

A

muscarinic

66
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what are two drugs that block the NMDA pathway and can cause negative and positive psychotic symptoms

A

Phencyclidine and Ketamine

67
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mild alternation between depression and elation

A

cyclothymia

68
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major alteration between depression and elation

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bipolar (manic depression)

69
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major depression plus hypomanic episodes

A

bipolar 2

70
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manic and major depression episodes

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bipolar 1

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