Flashcards 1
A patient with Alzheimer’s disease would be likely to obtain the lowest scores on what factor indexes on the WAIS-III?
Perceptual organization and processing speed
The behavior therapy technique for reducing arousal to inappropriate stimuli by first masturbating to orgasm while imagining appropriate stimuli and then continuing to masturbate while fantasizing about paraphilic images after orgasm is called what?
Satiation Therapy
To study attachment, a researcher has a mother of a one year old stand on the deep side of the visual cliff, while the child is placed on the shallow side. The researcher finds that when a mother smiles, the child crosses to its 3738 mother, but, when the mother frowns, the child does not approach her and cries. What is this phenomenon is referred to as?
Social referencing, which is seen as a sign of attachment between a child and its caregiver
A patient with Parkinson’s Disease is experiencing tremors.
What transmitter is probably involved?
Dopamine
According to Horn and Cattell (1966), how does crystallized intelligence develop?
Through the use of fluid intelligence
The cingulate cortex is most associated with what?
Emotions and motivation (cingulated cortex is part of limbic system that mediates satisfaction following eating and sex; “satisfaction center”
Asian-American students often outperform their non-Asian peers on various measures of academic achievement.
Research suggests that the best predictor of higher achievement in Asian-Americans is what?
Fear of academic failure (for non-Asians, it is effort)
Piaget’s concrete operational stage, one of the things a child develops the ability to do is mentally sort objects, which is called _______.
Transitivity (children also develop reversibility, decentration, and hierarchical classification)
A psychologist is hired as a consultant by an agency that works with homosexual men whose behavior places them at very high risk for the HIV virus. The psychologist is asked to work with groups of the agency’s clients, with the goal of decreasing high-risk activity in this population. Assuming the psychologist is familiar with the research in this area, she is most likely to take what approach?
Provide knowledge to the group about AIDS, as research shows knowledge about AIDS is a better predictor of less risk-taking behavior than perceived peer norms for high-risk groups (for low-risk groups, engendering a group norm of disapproval is best)
The proportion of variability in one variable that is accounted for by variability in another variable (or the proportion of variability shared by the two variables) is referred to as what?
Coefficient of determination (square of a correlation coefficient)
Based on Schachter’s work, how would a psychologist treat a client with an obesity problem?
By manipulating the external cues, as research shows obese people rely more on external than internal cues in their eating behaviors
Marital therapy based on the principles of most often emphasizes behavioral therapy combined with communication and problem-solving skills training.
Social Learning Theory
How do immigrant children who complete bilingual education programs, as compared to counterparts who are submerged in “English-only” education, typically end up?
At least equally proficient in English (sometimes better!)
You work for a university on a panel set up to make personnel decisions. The panel is considering granting tenure to a professor who has an unproven charge of sexual harassment pending. You vote against granting the professor tenure. Are your actions ethical or not?
Unethical if the reason for your vote was the allegation of sexual harassment
True or False: According to Minuchin, disengaged families tend to experience excessive conflict that hinders effective communication?
False- disengaged families tend to avoid conflict
To ensure that providers meet and maintain health plan participation requirements, managed care organizations (MCOs) use as a review process.
Credentialing, which is the formal process for determining if a provider meets and maintains the standards of qualification
The brain part or system that manages the circadian rhythm is located where?
Hypothalamus (while most other sleep functions are associated with the reticular activating system)
You are holding your friend’s one year old. Your friend leaves the room and her child continues to smile at you happily, and shows no interest in her mother when she returns. How has your friend most likely been as a parent?
Smothering/overstimulating and/or impatient/nonresponsive (the child is exhibiting an anxious/avoidant attachment)
What model of leadership provides a “decision tree” to help a leader determine whether an autocratic, consultative, or consensual decision-making approach is best given the nature of the work situation?
Vroom and Yetton’s normative model
True or False: A drawback of empirically-derived biodata forms is that they often lack face validity?
True- biodata forms often ask for information that seems to have nothing to do with job performance
Cross’s (1991) Black Racial (Nigresence) Identity Development Model includes the stage called
Pre-Encounter. At this stage an African-American prefers what type of therapist?
One of Caucasian race
A group’s decisions tend to be more extreme (in one direction or the other) than those that would be made by individuals in the group acting alone. This phenomenon is referred to as what?
Group polarization
According to Theodore Millon, people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder rely primarily on what defense mechanisms?
Repression, rationalization, and projection
In an operant conditioning experiment, researchers flash a light to signal the subject that she will receive a dollar bill for finding the ace of spades in a deck of cards. What is this signal called?
A discriminative stimulus
