Most challenging EPPP Flashcards
According to Krumboltz’s (1979) social learning theory of career decision-making, what are the 4 things that influence career choice
genetic abilities
environment
learning
task approach skills
Do Sleep walking and sleep terrors occur in REM or non-REM
non-REM
Hearing and vision start decreasing at __
Fluid intelligence starts decreasing at ___
hearing/vision: 40
fluid: 30-40
Damage to the frontal lobe is least likely to have an adverse effect on which of the following?
A. motivation
B. judgment
C. memory
D. IQ
IQ
model where an effective leader adopts the style (directive, achievement-oriented, supportive, or participative) that best fits certain characteristics of the employee and the employee’s tasks.
path-goal theory
In Ainsworth’s (Ainsworth et al., 1978) “strange situation,” an infant with a(n) ____________ attachment pattern clings to his/her mother, is very upset when she leaves, and is angry and rejects her when she returns. Mothers with this attachment pattern are usually ____________.
resistant; inconsistent in their caregiving
Is numerical reasoning fluid or crystallized
crystallized
Aversive racism
outwardly supportive of equality (interally anti-minority attitudes) + egalitarian principles
the extent to which a predictor measures the construct (hypothetical trait) it was designed to measure
construct validity
What model starts with
conformity
and ends with integrative awareness
Atkinson, Morten, and Sue’s Racial/Cultural Identity Development (R/CID)
Sayle- conformed then integrated
Worst score on rancho
I
Meds used to treat tic dx
antipsychotics
Workers with high growth-need strength (those that need to fulfill higher order needs) are more likely than those with low GNS to be positively affected by a job that has
the 5 core job characteristics: skill variety task identity task significance autonomy feedback
If one variable is continuous and the other is a dichotomous variable, what type of regression do you use?
point-biserial
Cross’s Black Racial Identity Development Model stages
Black racial identity = premium ibrahim internalizing
Pre-encounter
Immersion-emersion
Internalization
survivors syndrome
those not laid off during downsizing exhibit reduced job satisfaction and organizational commitment, a sense of loss of control, somatic symptoms, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and guilt about being a survivor.
Risperidone and other second-generation (atypical) antipsychotic drugs do what to serotonin and dopamine
decrease (antagonists)
In Fiedler’s contingency model of leadership (LPCs, favorableness of situation), should leaders change to fit style of employee
No, change situation to fit leadership style (which is relatively stable)
Fiedler’s contingency model
leadership depends on how much control the leader has (favorableness)
Idiographic research design
single subject
A friend tends to attribute his own behaviors to situational factors but the behaviors of other people to dispositional factors.
actor-observer bias
In a factor matrix, a communality indicates the proportion of variability:
in a single test that’s accounted for by all of the identified factors.
We are likely to attribute others’ behaviors to external factors when what 3 things are high
consensus
consistency
distinctiveness
theme interference
as a loss of objectivity that occurs when a therapist’s reactions to a particular type of client are affected by his/her previous experiences with that type of client.
favorableness of situation
how much control a leader has over subordinates
Bronfenbrenner’s’s system that consists of elements in the environment that the child may not have direct contact with but affect the child’s immediate environment. It includes the parents’ places of work, community services, and government agencies.
exosystem
Situational leadership theory
leader’s style should depend on subordinate’s job maturity (willingness + ability)
increased consideration = increased satisfaction, motivation
increased initiating structure = increased performance
Item difficulty index (p) range and what is the most difficult score
0 to 1 and 0=most difficult
position analysis questionnaire measures
KSAO knowledge skill abilities and other characteristics
individual decisions are better than group decisions when
the task doesn’t have much structure and requires a lot of creativity
The Kuder-Richardson Formula 20 (KR-20) can be used to estimate a test’s ____________ reliability when test items are scored dichotomously.
internal consistency
fading
thinning
fading - gradually removing prompts
thinning- gradually spacing reinforcement
can you date relatives of a former client
yes - as long as it’s former
Informational vs. normative influence
Informational: people conform to the judgments of others because they think others know more than they do
Normative influence: confirm because afraid of ridicule/rejection
ODD requires symptoms for ___ whereas conduct disorder requires symptoms for __
ODD = 6 mo CD = 12 mo
When a predictor has a reliability coefficient of .64, you can conclude that its criterion-related validity coefficient can be no larger than:
.8
criterion-related validity coeff <= sq, rel.
Chronbach’s alpha and KR-20 measure:
Whereas, Cohen’s kappa and Kendall’s coefficient measure:
Chronbach’s alpha and KR-20 measure: internal consistency
Cohen’s kappa and Kendall’s coefficient measure: inter-rater reliability
canonical correlation
appropriate multivariate technique when two or more predictors will be used to estimate status on two or more criteria.
Fiedler’s contingency model proposes that the optimal leadership style depends on which of the following?
A. the employee’s work-related level of motivation and ability to perform the job
B. the levels of skill variety, autonomy, and feedback provided by the job
C. the leader’s expertise, the employees’ expertise, and the importance of the employees’ commitment to the chosen course of action
D. the leader’s position power, the nature of the relationships between the leader and the employees, and the task structure
d
the tendency to imagine what might have happened but didn’t and can involve imagining either better or worse outcomes
counterfactual thinking
a mindguard re: groupthink
mindguards appoint themselves and shield group members from problematic information that might affect cohesiveness
____ is the alternative to the Pearson r for calculating the correlation between two continuous variables when the variables have a nonlinear relationship.
eta
The tendency to believe that the personal attitudes of a member of a group are similar to the personal attitudes of all members of the group is referred to as the
group attribution error
Arbitrary inference
drawing negative conclusions without any supporting evidence
Inter-rater reliability for 2 raters versus 3 raters
2: Cohen’s kappa
3: Kendall’s coeff of concordance
When using __________ to increase a behavior, the presence of a discriminative stimulus indicates that the behavior will be reinforced.
stimulus control
Another name for STM
primary memory
The Position Analysis Questionnaire
allows employer to compare activities ACROSS jobs
structured worker-oriented job analysis questionnaire that addresses six categories of work activity: information input, mental processes, work output, relationships with other people, job context, and other characteristics
According to the DSM-5, the median age of onset of specific phobia is between _____ years of age.
7 to 11
Do tics have to start prior to 18 for tourettes dx
yes, 1+ vocal and 2+ motor
A behavior that’s acquired as the result of avoidance conditioning is not likely to extinguish because it’s being:
maintained by negative reinforcement
Research suggests that ____________ is most useful for understanding the “testing effect.”
mediator effectiveness - testing improves memory by supporting the use of more-effective mediators during encoding”
Tracking
adopting the family’s style of communication (structural family therapy)
attribute others’ behavior to ext.factors when what 3 things are high
consistency
distinctiveness
consensus