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1
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Situational Problem is…

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environmental

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Pervasive Problem is…

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long-term

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What factors lead to a higher chance of recovery?

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Intelligence, personality (acknowledge responsibility?), social context (environment helping?)

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The only cultural factor worth noting is…

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Does the client speak english?

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What would be an example of the rare situation where culture causes abnormal psych?

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Jews getting tay-sacks due to lack of genetic variation

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Psychodynamically oriented psychologists focus on…

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intrapsychic conflicts causing coindition (rorsach can unlock problems)

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Behaviorally oriented psychologists focus on…

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relationships between environmental events and cognitive behavior

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Cognitively oriented psychologists focus on…

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how clients think about heir lives in inaccurate ways.

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Operant Conditioning

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New responses reoccur if they are reinforced

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Cognitive-behavioral perspective focuses on…

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how thoughts and information processing become distorted

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Reliability

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Produces same results

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Validity

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Measures what it should

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Standardizability

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Is it applied consistently?

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Physical assessment should include…

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General physical examination, neurological examination with brain scans, neuropsychological examination

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Psychological assessment should include…

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Assessment interviews, clinical observation of behavior, psychological tests

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EEG

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Amplifies brain waves, comparing them to normal patterns

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CAT

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Computerized Axial Tomography uses X-rays to reveal parts of brain to look for structural abnormalities

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MRI

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Static images of the interior of the brain by measuring variation of magnetic fields of water

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PET

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Appraises organs based on metabolic levels

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fMRI

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Records brain activity by measuring changes in local oxygenation (dependent on activity)

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What is the most common neuropsychological assessment?

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Halstead-Reitan Battery

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What are the sections of the Halstead-Reitan Battery?

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Category, tactual, rhythm, speech, finger oscillation

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What does the rhythm test examine?

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Attention/sustained concentration through an auditory perception task

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Assessment interviews are better when they are…

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structured

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Psychological tests are classified into what categories?

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Intelligence/Personality

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Personality tests can be

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Projective (unstructured stimuli) or objective (MMPI)

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What is an example of a projective personality test?

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The TAT

28
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What are the sections of the WAIS-IV?

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Verbal comp, perceptual reasoning, processing speed, working memory

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