Eppp Flashcards
Rational-economic decision making
People should consider a wide range of options b4 making a decision
Who’s Asch?
Developed theories of how we form impressions.
Who is jay Haley?
Communications theorist, strategic family therapy.
Characteristics of strategic family therapy
Paradoxical interventions -
Engaging in symptomatic behavior
What is empirical criterion keying? Name a test that uses it.
MMPI-2; choosing items for a test based on ability to distinguish between groups (if depressed and no depressed answer oppositely)
What is term congruence associated with?
Rogers client centered therapy- genuineness and consistency between therapists words and behaviors.
Terms associAted with Minuchins structural family therapy.
Enmeshment, disengagement, boundaries
Core tenet of object relations family therapy
Insight is needed for change, interpret problems as transference issues between mother-child early relationship
Yalom- disadvantage with doing group and individual therapy at the same time
Self disclose in individual, so won’t in group
Name three phases of Howards research
Demoralization, remediation, rehabilitation
Biggest increase in suicide rates
15-24 age group
Stranger anxiety most intense at age…
First evident at 8-10 months, most intense at 18 months
Memory most affected by aging
Recent long-term (secondary)
Pattersons findings on aggression
Children learn from parents, also from reinforcement from aggressive behavior
When is anxiety about death most intense
Midlife years
Brofenbenner - mesosystem
Interconnections in Microsystems - ie between family and school
Exposure to cocaine in utero…
Oversensitivity, crawl, stand, walk early, irritable, low birthweight
Organic brain disease shown on which WAIS subtest
Digit span and digit symbol coding low
What WAIS subtest is least affected by brain damage, and can therefore be used to assess premorbid functioning ?
Information and vocabulary
What do Vineland scales asses?
Adaptive functioning in mentally retarded - can diagnose MR
Name people who score significantly higher on verbal subtests than performance subtests. Why is this a problem?
Brain damaged people, anxious and highly educated all do - so causes too many false positives for brain damage
What contributes most to reading problems with most children?
Phonological processing problems
What has smallest impact on reading problem ?
Visual and auditory problems
What is seen in adults with reading disabilities
Syntactic knowledge problems
