own questions Flashcards
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- What three internal sources did plato believe human behaviour is determined?
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- Physical desires, emotion and reason
2
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- What did saint Thomas Aquarius, in the middle ages say about mental health?
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- He said that disease and insanity is caused by spiritual matters and that the soul is unable to become sick and so mental problems must have a physical cause or be due to problems in reason or in passion.
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- Who was claude bernarde?
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- Claude Bernarde was a prominent physician who argued for recognition of the tole of psychological factors in illness.
4
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- Who was Eli Todd?
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- Eli Todd made sure that the source for humane treatment for the mentally ill was heard.
5
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- Why was Emil Kreapplin, named the father of psychology?
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- Emil Krapplin was named the father of psychology because he was the first person who offered different two category system of mental illness – exogenous disorders (external factors) and endogenous disorders (caused by internal factors)
6
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- In the American osychological associations ethical code (2002), what are the two distinct sections?
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- General principles (aspirational) and ethical standards (enforceable).
7
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- What are the five general principles described?
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2. Beneficence and non maleficence Fidelity and responsibility Integrity Justice Respect for peoples rights and dignity
8
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- What are the exceptions of when consent for assessments, evaluations and diagnostic services is included?
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- When testing is mandated by law or governmental regulations, when informed consent is because of a routine e.g. applying for a job, when the aim is to evaluate decisional capacity.
9
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- What do psychologists take into account when interpreting test results?
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- Psychologists take into account the purpose of assessment as well as various test factors, test taking abilities and other characteristics of the person being assessed.
10
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- What can stop a patient having their test results explained to them?
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- If the nature of the relationship, precludes provision of an explanation of results e.g. in some orginisational consulting, pre employment and security screenings and forensic evaluations (but this fact will have been clearly explained to the person being assessed in advance)
11
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- What does the term test manuals include?
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- Manuals, instruments, protocols, and test questions or stimuli (it does not include test data)
12
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- According to the assessment proposal – what are some usual instruments and actions for selective mutism?
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- – interviews
- Self reports (especially for parents)
- Questionnaires (for parents and teachers)
- Direct observation
- Antecendents, consequences and context related data analysis
13
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- According to the differential diagnostic criteria, what can be applied?
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- The anxiety disorders interview schedule, child version of the ADIS – C. it is a semi structured interview to focus on the assessment of anxiety disorders (the aim is to rule out other disorders).
14
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- For practical question 1 what was required to do?
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- – read and write about the dysfunction of selective autism, signs and symptoms
- Find the DSM – V description
- Decide whether Ramon has been correctly diagnosed and why
15
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- For practical question 2, what was required to do?
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- – you had to imagine yourself as part of the assessment team
- You had to select different instruments to assess Ramon and his family
- Once the instruments were selected, you had to describe them and justify their application
16
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- For question three of the practical, what was required?
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- – we had to create suggestions and recommendations to provide Ramon’s family and teachers to improve his verbal communication.
17
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- What is one reason a child may develop, selective mutism?
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- Often the chid already has a predisposition to anxiety. This means they have inherited the tendency to be anxious.
18
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- What is methodology?
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- The application of scientific method to collect reliable and valid information needed to make an educational programme
19
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- What ways are insitutions and organisations assessed?
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- Organisation, operation, autonomy. Added value, effectiveness, efficiency, performance of students
20
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- What is the tole of an educational psychologist?
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- A professional whos work is a reflection and intervention on human behaviour in educational situations, by developing the skills of individuals, groups an insitutions.
21
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- What are the four intervention programmes according to their objectives:
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- – preventative
- Developmental
- Therapeutic
- Academic and professional guidance
22
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- What is the difference between assessment and evaluation?
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- Assessment = the interpretation of interpreting evidence
Evaluation = refers to the process of making a valued judgement
23
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- Once information about the patient has been gathered and the target problem behaviours have been identified, what are the next steps?
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- The functional characteristics should be analysed and the purpose of each particular behaviour (problem). The casual variable maintaining these problems should also be identified.
24
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- What is Hanley et al., 2003 and Wilson and Murrell 2002, definition of functional analysis?
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- Functional analysis focuses on identifying variables that influence the occurance of a particular problem behaviour, and how those variables mutually affect each other.
25
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- What is Plante 2005 definition of functional analysis?
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- Plante defines functional analysis as a behavioural analysis of what led up to the behaviour (antecedents) and also the consequences of that behaviour.
26
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- With formulation models, what is important to remember?
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- – a problem is not nessecarily a diagnosis symptom
- A problem is not a diagnosis
27
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- How can you identify problems?
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- – from patients complaint
- It should be able to be measured
- It has to be a specific behaviour or thought
- What the patient says interferes with their life.
28
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- What is the antecedent, behaviour, consequence (ABC) model?
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- The antecedent, behavioural consequence model, is a very popular functional analysis model which is used to examin problem behaviour and the relationships between variables that precede, happen with or follow it.
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- What four questions need to be asked when creating functional analysis?
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- – what could cause this problem
- Whether it is a modified variable or not
- What the outcomes of the problem are
- Are the outcomes a problem too?