Deck 3

Question 1

DSM-5 dx of probable major or mild neurocognitive disorder with Lewy Bodies:

Answer 1

Visual hallucinations (core feature)

Concurrent REM sleep behavior disorder (suggested feature)

Question 2

Regarding the self-stereotyping hypothesis, O’Brien & Hummers found:

Answer 2

Internalized stereotypes about aging can impair performance on memory tasks

Ppl who identified as old did more poorly on a memory task when they were told their performance would be compared to that if older adults

Question 3

The _____________ pathway of the brain are responsible for the reinforcing effects of drugs that increase dopamine

Answer 3

Mesolimbic dopaminergic (pathway)

Question 4

Conduction aphasia involves:

Answer 4

Fluent (but paraphrasing) speech, relatively intact comprehension, poor word repetition, and impaired naming

Question 5

Baddely describes working memory as consisting of:

Answer 5

A central executive and three subsystems:

1. Phonological loop
2. Visio-spatial sketchpad
3. Episodic buffer

Question 6

Major or Mild neurocognitive disorder due to Prion Disease

Answer 6

Transmissible agents known as prions, can cause:

• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• Kuru
• Gerstmann-Staussler-Schneiker syndrome
• Fatal insomnia

Question 7

Regarding altruistic motivation for helping victims of a tragedy, Piferi, Jobe, And Jones found

Answer 7

That helping to improve victim’s well-being was more predictive than egoistic motivation for predicting future giving

Question 8

Sensorimotor period (Piaget) substages (6)

Answer 8

1. Basic reflexes
2. Primary circular reactions
3. Secondary circular reactions
4. Coordination of secondary circular reactions
5. Tertiary circular reactions
6. Invention of new means through mental combinations

Question 9

Test sensitivity is the proportion:

Answer 9

Of people with a disorder who are identified by a test as having the disorder.

Divide the true positives identified by the test by the true positives plus the false negatives

TP/(TP+ FN)

*check this

Question 10

Helms’s model of white racial identity development

Answer 10

1. Contact
2. Disintegration
3. Reintegration
4. Pseudo-independence
5. Immersion
6. Autonomy

Question 11

Development of Myers Briggs type indicator was based on:

Answer 11

Jung’s theory of psychological types

Question 12

Schizophrenia positive and negative sx due to:

Answer 12

Positive sx due to dopamine hyperactivity in subcortical regions of the brain

Negative due to dopamine hypoacivity in cortical regions (esp prefrontal cortex)

Question 13

_____ processing is data-driven

Answer 13

Bottom up

• in terms of perception, bottom up processing begins with incoming sensory info and continues upward to the brain where it is perceived, interpreted, and stored.
• Top-down processing begins with the brains use of preexisting knowledge and expectations to interpret incoming sensory info

Question 14

Two theoretical models that have influenced family therapists

Answer 14

General systems theory (system that seeks to obtain homeostasis)

Cybernetics (circular nature of feedback loops- negative maintains status quo; positive increases change)

Question 15

Marital schism and marital skew

Answer 15

Marital Schism: involves severe, chronic discord and disequilibrium where threats of separation are common and recurrent

Marital skew: relationship is not threatened by separation but skewed toward meeting the needs of one member at the expense of the needs of others

Question 16

Minuchin: Structural Family Therapy: Family is viewed as:

Answer 16

Single, interrelated system assessed along variety of dimensions:

• Hierarchy of power
• Clarity and firmness of boundaries
• Significant alliances and splits
• 3 chronic boundary problems
  1. Triangulation (each parent demands child sides with him/her)
  2. Detouring (parent express distress through child)
  3. Stable coalition (one parent unites with a child)

Structural family therapy is highly effective in tx of childhood and adolescent problems such as: asthma, diabetes, anorexia, and tx of adults with drug addictions

Question 17

Communications family therapy involves

Answer 17

• Double bind: maladaptive communication that typically involves at least three elements
  1. An injunction telling the person that if they do or don’t do something they will be punished
  2. A secondary injunction which is generally nonverbal, conflicting with the first at a more abstract level, also enforced by punishment
  3. A teriary injunction prohibiting the victim from escaping the field (by not allowing her victim to point out the consistency)

**formulated double bind theory of schizophrenia, which saw double binds as contributing to the etiology of the schizophrenia

• uses “prescribing the symptom”

Question 18

Haley: strategic family therapy

Answer 18

Combo of minuchin structural approach (with focus on hierarchies) and the communications approach (with focus on family communication and interactions)

Question 19

Milan Group: systemic Family Therapy

Answer 19

Involves general systems theory and cybernetics, as well as components of strategic theory

• Circular questioning
• Prescription of rituals