Eppp Flashcards

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Rational-economic decision making

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People should consider a wide range of options b4 making a decision

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Who’s Asch?

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Developed theories of how we form impressions.

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Who is jay Haley?

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Communications theorist, strategic family therapy.

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Characteristics of strategic family therapy

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Paradoxical interventions -

Engaging in symptomatic behavior

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What is empirical criterion keying? Name a test that uses it.

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MMPI-2; choosing items for a test based on ability to distinguish between groups (if depressed and no depressed answer oppositely)

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What is term congruence associated with?

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Rogers client centered therapy- genuineness and consistency between therapists words and behaviors.

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Terms associAted with Minuchins structural family therapy.

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Enmeshment, disengagement, boundaries

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Core tenet of object relations family therapy

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Insight is needed for change, interpret problems as transference issues between mother-child early relationship

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Yalom- disadvantage with doing group and individual therapy at the same time

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Self disclose in individual, so won’t in group

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Name three phases of Howards research

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Demoralization, remediation, rehabilitation

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Biggest increase in suicide rates

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15-24 age group

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Stranger anxiety most intense at age…

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First evident at 8-10 months, most intense at 18 months

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Memory most affected by aging

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Recent long-term (secondary)

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Pattersons findings on aggression

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Children learn from parents, also from reinforcement from aggressive behavior

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When is anxiety about death most intense

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Midlife years

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Brofenbenner - mesosystem

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Interconnections in Microsystems - ie between family and school

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Exposure to cocaine in utero…

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Oversensitivity, crawl, stand, walk early, irritable, low birthweight

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Organic brain disease shown on which WAIS subtest

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Digit span and digit symbol coding low

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What WAIS subtest is least affected by brain damage, and can therefore be used to assess premorbid functioning ?

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Information and vocabulary

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What do Vineland scales asses?

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Adaptive functioning in mentally retarded - can diagnose MR

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Name people who score significantly higher on verbal subtests than performance subtests. Why is this a problem?

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Brain damaged people, anxious and highly educated all do - so causes too many false positives for brain damage

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What contributes most to reading problems with most children?

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Phonological processing problems

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What has smallest impact on reading problem ?

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Visual and auditory problems

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What is seen in adults with reading disabilities

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Syntactic knowledge problems

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Name factors for good prognosis in schizophrenia

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Good Social support, good premorbid adjustment, acute onset, later age of onset, female, precipitating events, family history of mood disorder

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Best technique for specific phobia

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Flooding and systematic desensitization

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Abrupt termination of barbiturates…

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Grand mal seizure,

Fatal

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What is analclitic depression

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In infants deprived maternal attention between 6-8 months -

Withdrawal, crying, decline in health, insomnia

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Diagnostic criteria for substance dependence

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Tolerance and withdrawal

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Schizoaffective disorder is…

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Prominent psychotic symptoms and prominent mood symptoms. Must have 2 weeks or longer where there are psychotic symptoms without mood symptoms present. Bipolar can be both at once

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Criteria for mental retardation

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IQ of 70 or less, onset before 18, deficits in at least 2 areas of adaptive functioning