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Dissociation

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Lack of normal integration of thoughts, feelings and experiences

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Disscociative Amnesia

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Inability to recall significant personal information in the absence of organic impairment

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Localized amnesia

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Information from a specific time period

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Selective amnesia

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Some parts of the trauma are forgotten

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Generalized amnesia

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All personal information from the past

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Continuous amnesia

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Information from a certain date until the present

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Systematized Amnesia

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Certain categories of information

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Dissociative fugue

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Forget who they are and travel suddenly away from their home

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Depersonalization

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Distinct sense of unreality and detachment from their own thoughts, feelings and body

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Derealization

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Feelings of unreality and detachment from one’s surroundings rather than oneself

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Trauma model

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Dissociative disorders are a result of severe childhood trauma accompanied by predisposing personality traits

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Socio- cognitive Model

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Multi personality is a form of role playing where people begin to act in ways consistent with the views of the therapist

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Iatrogenic

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Caused by treatment

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Conversion Disorder

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Loss of functioning in a part of the body without underlying medical abnormality to explain it

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La belle indifference

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Nonchalant lack of concern about nature and implications of one’s symptoms

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Somatic symptom disorder

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Multiple, recurrent somatic symptoms that are very distressing and cause major disruption in persons life

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Somatic symptom disorder with predominant pain

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Pain in one or more body sites that causes distress

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Illness Anxiety Disorder

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Preoccupied with fear they have a serious disease but there is nothing wrong with them

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Facticious Disorder

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Deliberately fake symptoms of illness or injury to gain medical attention

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Body dysmorphic disorder

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Excessive preoccupation with an imagined or exaggerated body disfigurement

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Which NS branches are involved in respondent and operant consitioning

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Respondent: Autonomic
Operant: Somatosensory

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Systematic Desensitization

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Trained relaxation response to treat anxiety

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Behavioural activation

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What did you used to enjoy? Make them want to do these things

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Rational Emotive Therapy

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ABC: Activating event
Belief
Consequence

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6 common cognitive distortions

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Personalizing
Catastrophizing
Jumping to conclusions
Unrelenting standards
All or nothing thinking
Emotional Reasoning
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Psychopathology

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Medical model of disorders infers that there is a biological basis

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Necessary

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All people with the abnormality have the characteristic

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Suffcient

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No people without the abnormality have the characteristic

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How many symptoms do you need to diagnose panic disorder

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4/13

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2 times when most people get diagnosed with panic disorder

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Late teens

30’s

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How many situations must you fear to have agoraphobia

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2/5

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Clark’s cognitive model of panic

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Fear perpetuates phobic reaction to own bodily sensation

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Galton

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People with inferior intellectual, social or economic functioning were defective

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Balance of humours

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Cheerfullness: blood
Ill member: Yellow bile
Gloom: black bile
Listlessness: phlegm

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St Vitus Dance

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Epidemic of mass hysteria in the middle ages

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Paracelsus

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Spiritus vitae was upset by the stars causing lunacy

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Kraepelin

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Created the first diagnostic system

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Theresa Avila

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Said hysterical nuns were sick and saved them

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St vincent de paul

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Society’s duty to protect the mentally ill

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Bedlam

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Roudy, chaotic behaviour

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La Bicetre

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Patients shackled to the walls

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Moral Therapy

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Rush– Patients could be controlled without restraints by means of respect , rest and activities

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Morel

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First to suggest genetic influence

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Krraft- Ebing

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Disorders acquired by infection

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General Paresis

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Syphillis caused mania, euphoria followed by brain degeneration

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Wagner- Jauregg

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Infected syphillis patients with tuberculosis to induce a fever

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Sakel

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Incillin induced coma alleviated morphine addiction and dysfunction

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Hindbrain

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Autonomic NS activities like digestion and heart beat

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Midbrain

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Reticular Activation System controls arousal

50
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4 ways neurotransmitters can cause abnormality

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Too much
Too little
Too few/ too many receptors
Too much/ too little deactivating enzymes
Reuptake is too fast or slow
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Dopamine

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Movement, attention and reward
High in schizophrenia
Low in depression and parkinsons

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Norepinephrine

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Alertness, energy, appetite

Low in depression, high in mania

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Serotonin

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Mood, sleep, appetite, aggression

Low in depression and OCD

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GABA

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Inhibits anxiety response

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SSRI

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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

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MAOI

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Monoamine oxidaze inhibitors

Inhibit enzymes

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Antipsycotics

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Block receptors

58
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Benzodiazepines

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Increase receptor sensitivity

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Catharsis

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Identifying traumatic experiences during hypnosis

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Id

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Drives demand instant gratification (pleasure)

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Ego

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Curbs Id desires to avoid pain or discomfort (reality)

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Superego

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Moral standards of society

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Ellis

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People behave self- defeatingly because of their irrational beliefs

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Beck

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Emotions and behaviour are influenced by cognitive apprasials

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Beck’s 3 levels of cognition

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Schemas
Information processing/ intermediate beliefs
Automatic thoughts

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Schema

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Internal representations of stored information

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Content specificity

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Different types of beliefs are associated with different types of behaviour

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Humanistic

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People form their sense of self and the world through experience

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Rogers

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Person centred– self fulfillment achieved by accepting oneself, being honest, trusting experience and relying on oneself for personal evaluation

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Maslows hierarchy of needs

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Physiological
Safety
Belongingness
Esteem
Self actualization
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Existentialist

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Awareness of one’s existence is critical in human functioning

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Angst

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Awareness of possibility of non- being causes anxiety

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Labelling theory

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Being identified with a disorder makes people see you differently

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Diathesis stress model

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Disorder determined by combination of stress and predisposition

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Taxonomy

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Science of classification

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Nosology

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Classification of diseases

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Reliability

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Give the same measurement for a thing everytime

78
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Inter rater reliability

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Extent to which two clinicians agree on a diagnosis

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Validity

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Whether a category is able to predict disorders accurately

80
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Antheoretical

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Does not endorse a theory

81
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Polythetic

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Person can be diagnosed without meeting all criteria

82
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Internal consistency

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Degree of reliability within a test

83
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Face validity

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Test items resemble characteristics of concept being tested

84
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Content validity

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Test content includes a representative sample of all behaviours related to construct

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Criterion Validity

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People who we already know have greater ability score higher on the test

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Clinical approach

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No substitute for clinician’s experience and judgement

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Actuarial Approach

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Use statistics and empirical evidence to evaluate data

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CAT scan

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Computerized axial tomography

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MRI

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Magnetic resonance imagery

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PET

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Positron Emmission Tomography

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Gestalt Test

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Draw shapes and lines from memory

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6 Halstead- Reitan tests

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Category
Rythym
Tactual Performance
Tapping
Grip strength
Auditory
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Rapport

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Mutual trust and respect between clinician an patient

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Mental status examination

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Semi structured interview to assess emotional, intellectual and neurological functioning

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Who developed the first intelligence test

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Galton

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Binet

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Predict academic performance and need for special education

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Intelligence Quotient

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Mental age/ chronological age x 100

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5 stanford- binet intelligence scales

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Reasoning
Knowledge
Visual- spatial
Quantitative
Working
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Weschler Adult Intelligence Test

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4 verbal
3 working memory
5 perceptual reasoning
3 processing speed

100
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Personality assessment

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Quantitative unlike intelligence scores

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Projective test

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Project unconscious emotions onto presented ambiguous object

102
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Thematic appreciation test

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Construct stories about ambiguous pictures

103
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

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567 T/F on 10 content scales. Show clear differences in people with disorder

104
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Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory

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Judges personality disorders. 175 T/F on 24 scales

105
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Personality Assessmnet Inventory

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344 items on a 4 point scales

106
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Analogue observational setting

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Artificial setting in lab constructed to elicit behaviour

107
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Reactivity

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Change in behaviour when person knows they are being observed

108
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SORC

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Stimuli
Organismic- biological factors
Response
Consequence

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Quasi experiment

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Experimental group is chosen based on desired characteristics

110
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Single Subject design

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Experiement with one person– not a case study

111
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ABAB (reversal)

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Baseline, intervention, return to baseline, intervention

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Incidence

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New cases in a time period

113
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Prevelence

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Frequency of disorder at a given point in time

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Two factor theory

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Fear develops through classical conditioning and maintained through operant

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Seligman

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We are biologically prepared to fear certain stimuli

116
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Prevalence of specific phobias

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7-15 % – 2:1 for women

117
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Thought action fusion

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Belief that having a thought increases probability of that event
Belief that thought is moral equivalent of action

118
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PTSD prevelence

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3- 10% general
15-17% returning soldiers
50% rape victims
**2x more likely in women

119
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Acute Stress Disorder

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PTSD that lasts less than a month

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