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Incremental validity
HIGH criterion-related validity coefficient
LOW selection ratio (lots of applicants for few positions)
MOD base rate (selection technique = moderately accurate)
Delirium vs psychosis
Delirium=Sx random, haphazard, rapid onset
Psychosis=Sx systematized
Ohio State U Behavior of leaders
Imitating structure (task-orientation)
Consideration (person-orientation)
MMPI scales
K - Korrection (defensiveness)
L - lie
F - inFrequency
Adult Attachment Interview
- Autonomous = describes parent + or - and gives examples (Child –> secure)
- Dismissing = describes parent + but no examples (Child –> avoidant)
- Preoccupied = - or confused description, no examples (Child –> resistant
- Unresolved/disorganized (Child –>disorganized/disoriented)
Cross’ Black Racial ID Model
- Pre-encounter
- Encounter
- Immersion-Emersion
- Internalization
Fiedler’s Contingency model
Characteristics of work situation (affect ability to lead)
Leader-member relations ***most important
Task structure Leaders position power
Transtheoretical model
- Pre-contemplation: cons outweigh pros
- Contemplation: “ “ “
- Preparation: pros=cons
- Action: pros outweigh cons
- Maintenance: pros outweigh cons
Predictors of moving to next stage (Transtheoretical model)
Perception of self efficacy
Decisional balance (pros/cons)
BP vs ADHD
- BP only:
- Elation
- Grandiosity
- Flight of ideas
- Reduced sleep
- Hypersexuality
- BOTH:
- hyperactivity,
- irritability,
- distractibility,
- accelerated speech
Conventional vs Realistic
Conventional: keeping records, org data, attention to detail, others’ instructions
Realistic: technical, physical, mechanical, outdoor activities
Schizophrenia vs schizophreniform vs brief psychotic disorder
Time
Paired comparison technique
Measure of job performance All employees compared to each other in PAIRS
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” learning=perception of relationships among elements of a problem
Gestalt (Kohler)
Caplan mental health consultation
Case consultation (focus on consultee)
* client-centered = particular client
* consultee-centered=group or population Admin consultation (focus on administrators)
* program-centered=particular program
* consultee-centered=focus on admins
4 dopamine pathways
- Mesolimbic -> motivation/emotion (high dopamine here=+Sx)
- Mesocortical –> _emotion/cognitio_n (low dopamine here= -Sx)
- Nigrostriatal –> motor Sx (Parkinson’s)
- Tuberoinfundibular –>hypothalamus/pituitary (prolactin & hormones)
Ridley model of paranoia
- Nonparanoiacs - low culture, low functional
- Functional paranoiacs–> psychopathology
- Healthy cultural paranoiacs , low functiional, high cultural
- Confluent paranoiacs ???
Super lifespan model of career development
- Growth (4-13)
- Exploration (14-24)
- Establishment (25-44)
- Maintenance (45-65)
- Disengagement (65+)
Overregularization vs overextension
Over reg = grammar rules
tooths instead of teeth, goed instead of went
Over ext = uses word too broadly
Telegraphic vs holophrastic speech
Telegraphic = 2 words
Holophrastic = one word (means ‘whole’)
Option receptor antagonist Reduces alcohol cravings
Naltrexone
Efficacy vs effectiveness
Efficacy: clinical trials
Effectiveness: “real world” effects (correlational, quasi-experimental studies)
Papez’ circuit
limbic system
IQ correlations among family
- .18 – adopted child with parent
- .25 – bio sibs reared apart
- .40 – parent and child
- .68 – identical twins reared apart
- .80 – identical twins reared together
Stress inoculation training
conceptualization: skills acquisition: application:
Q-sort technique
rank ordering descriptive statements about self
James-Lange theory
emotions are perceptions of bodily reactions body first, then emotions (“JAMES’ great body made Jessica LANGE emotional”)
Cannon-Bard theory
emphasis on brain emotions first, then body reacts
“gender schema theory”
Bem
OCD across cultures
same stats different content of obsessions and compulsions
TQM (Total Quality Management)
based on employee involvement fails when employees not fully participating
best Rx for chronic pain
mixed SSRIs/SNRIs (better than SSRIs alone)
best Rx for Alcohol Dependence
SSRIs best for low alcohol consumption with LATE onset Alcohol Dependence (Type A)
Types of Alcohol Dependence
Type A: Late onset = lower consumption; fewer Sx; less severe Sx
Type B: Early onset = more Sx; more severe Sx; more severe psychopathology
procedural memory is mediated by _____
the striatum (caudate nucleus + putamen)
brain structure that mediates emotion
hypothalamus
Piaget moral development
HETEROnomous (subject to laws outside individual)
–rule violations are punished
–rules changed only by authorities
AUTOnomous (self-governing)
–rules can be changed by consensus
expressed emotion is predictive of relapse for ____
MORE predictive for mood and eating disorders than schizophrenia
contingency management
punish undesirable + reward/reinforce desirable
false memory induction
Creates false memories by repeated asking about events never experienced
imagination inflation
asking to imagine event before asking if it ever happened to the individual
Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm (DRM)
erroneously recalling a word from a list of semantically related words
Loftus misinformation effect
original memory of events altered by exposure to misleading information
best Tx for stuttering
Habit Reversal: regulated breathing + awareness training + social support
Centralized vs decentralized communication
centralized: better for simple tasks
decentralized: better for complex tasks
when is brain lateralization first evident?
1st year of life
stages of Freudian psychoanalysis
confrontation: goal to help client see behavior in new way
clarification: clarifies client’s statements
interpretation:
working through:
script vs heuristic
script = “event schema”: series of events/actions in particular situation
heuristic = “mental shortcut” (rule of thumb)
According to REBT, what is the basis of irrational thoughts?
biological basis
what is the effect of brain trauma on memory?
most recent memories: most vulnerable to amnesia
remote memories: first to be recovered