General flash cards
Wernickes is to Brocas as:
Wernickes is to Brocas as:
Masters and Johnsons technique of sensate focus is based on
counterconditioning
The part of the brain responsible for consolidation of
long-term memory
hippocampus(in temporal lobe)
Frued and Skinner share common views about:
determinism
Research on the incidence of differential validity has found:
The problem is primarily sample size
Part of the brain not fully developed at birth
cortex
On the MMPI, which validity scale serves as a moderator?
K
Preference for handedness first expresses itself at _ and
becomes firmly established by age _
2; 7-8
Humans exhibit sexual dimorphism:
to a lesser degree than many other species
Interval recording is used:
when a behavior has no clear beginning, middle or end
The best treatment for elderly patients w/ paranoia:
neuroleptics
The best predictor of adolescent alcohol use
Level of use by parents and peers
The concept of instrumental learning was introduced by:
thorndike
THe concordance rate for identical twins for Bipolar
Disorder:
75-80%
According to research, the compressed workweek has the
least impact on:
Absenteeism
communication interaction therapy epouses that
communication has a “report function” and a :
command function
What characteristics are more critical for todays leaders than
managers?
independent, innovative, flexible
THe release of sex hormones by the gonads depends on
signals from the
hypothalamus
THe ‘fourth force’ in psychology has beeen defined as:
multiculturalism
Tricyclic Antidepressants
more effective in relieving vegetative symptoms (appetite,
sleep, motor disturbances
The sequence of depth perception in infants
Kinetic, binocular, pictorial
Trend analysis
used to determine the trend/shape that best describes the
relationship btw/ 2 variable
Early signs of Dementia due to HIV disease:
cognitive slowing and apathy
An advantage of using a MANOVA over multiple one-way
ANOVAS is that:
the use of the MANOVA reduces the experiment-wise error
rate
Centralized Network
all communication goes through one person (usually person
in charge); most effective when task is easy; usually the
leader, not the employees, prefer a centralized network
ADHD comorbidity
ADHD is most frequent comorbid disorder w/ about 20-25%
of children with learning disorder also having ADHD
Herbert Simon
Bounded Rationality model of decision making
Interpersonal Therapists on Depression
believe depression is caused/maintained by disturbances
early in life (esp. attachment disturbances); they focus on the
connection btw/ the presenting problem and the client’s
current relationships (including the relationship with the
therapist
Secondary Impotence
when a man persistently/recurrently fails to attain/maintain
an erection even though he has successfully achieved one in
the pas
Low LPC wokers
task oriented
Extinction treatment paradigms ar eoften limited by
accidental reinforcement
In Holland’s personality typology, the conventional type
most enjoys:
manipulating data, filing, copying
The ratio of MDD in females to males:
2:1-3:1
THe most effective behavior technique to reduce a school
aged childs temper tantrums:
extinction
Approx what % of women experience full-blown postpartum
dep
10-20%
MANOVA is used when
more than two DVs
Multiple Cutoff
noncompensatory; a min score on each predictor must be
obtained before the applicant is considered for selection
Job Rotation
having trainees learn several jobs (ordinarilly used to train
managers
Life Space
The various social roles an individual adopts at different pars
of his/her life span (child, student, worker)
The various social roles an individual adopts at different pars
of his/her life span (child, student, worker)
integrates and processes all sensory information except for
olfactio
Alloplastic intervention:
alters environmental conditions that contribute to/cause
distress
Autoplastic:
attempts to change the individual to adapt to the environment
Children are most likely to be resilient after trauma when
their parents are
high in warmth, structure and expectations
Medication for Atypical Depression:
MAOI and SSRI
Children with autism show superior intelligence on
Embedded Figures test
Ultimate criterion:
construct cannot be measured directly, but can be measured
indirectly
Crowing/Men vs. Women:
Women do better in lab setting, men do better in naturalistic
settin
Maternal employment during first 3 years for child:
small neg impact on cognitive development/ no consistent
impact on emotional/behavioral development
What do you need for Taylor Russell tables?
base rate, selection ratio, validity
What % of women have postpartum blues?
What % of women have postpartum blues?
Object Relations Family Therapy:
examines projections/transferences btw/ family members
Job Satisfaction
Relatively stable and minimally affected by job change
Startle Reflex
affected by individuals emotional state/neg. emotional state
=enhanced startle reflex; pos emotional state=reduced startle
refle
Implicit Memory
effortless, automatic; test by using word-stem completion
test
Paired comparison test
helps reduce rater bias
Neurotransmitters in Social Phobia
Seratonin and Dopamine
Webers law:
The more intense a stimulus,the greater of change in
intensity that must occur for a person to percieve change
WHo has best tx outcomes?
Mexicans-Anglos-Asians-African Americans
Scientific Management Theory:
predicts job enrichment has detrimental effect on job
performance
Goal of thermal feedback is to lower:
sympathetic nervous system
Triangulation least likely to occur when:
family members are highly differentiated
Lewins 3 stages of organizational change:
unfreezing, changing, refreezing
Selection technique that best predicts turnover:
biodata
Power
ability to detect a falst null hypothesis
% of left-handed people who are left-hemisphere dominant
for language
50-60%
Reality therapy
Dual goals of helping client take responsibility for and suffer
the natural consequences of their actions
on the Stanford Binet, the routing subtests include:
Object Series/Matrices and vocab
Wolpe-Reciprical Inhibition
replacing an anxiety response with a relaxation response
Raven Progressive Matrices
Raven Progressive Matrices
Job Enrichment
Has positive effects (for some employees) on job satisfaction
and performance
Pseudodementia
memory loss, isolated, fluctuating, contradictory, exaggerate
symptoms
Minunchin’s view on psychosomatic families:
weak boundaries btw/ members and limited individual
autonomy
weak boundaries btw/ members and limited individual
autonomy
sensory functions
A person with post-traumatic amnesia will show the greatest
impairment with:
verbal memory
Toddlers of mothers who are severly depressed tend to be:
passively noncompliant
Coefficient of internal consistency:
used to measure characteristic that fluctuates over time
Lazarus-3 types of appraisal:
primary, secondary, reappraisal
MR-heredity is responsible for:
5%
In factor analysis, rotating factors :
changes factor loadings and eigenvalues
Most effective tx to decrease 5 year olds nightmares/fear of
the dark
coping self-statements and pos. imagery