Practice 1 Flashcards
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Loss of sensation to the finger of L hand = damage to which part of the brain
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postcentral gyrus
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In a normal distribution, what %age of scores falls between scores that are +/- 1, 2, and 3 SDs from the mean?
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1 SD = 68
2 SDs = 95
3 SDs = 99
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Briefly describe action potential as it relates to the entering/release of NA and K
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NA+ channels open and NA enters the cell and depolarizes it. Then K+ channels open and K leaves the cell and repolarizes it.
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What kind of research did Gibson focus on?
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Perceptual development
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What kind of research did Perry focus on?
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dualistic and relativistic thinking of adolescents and early adults
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What kind of research did Rutter focus on?
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Risk and resilience
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What factors are the most predictive of relapse?
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negative emotion, interpersonal conflict, and social pressure
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May result from kidney or liver failure or from diabetes, severe dehydration, hyper-/hypothyroidism, deliriuml - global brain dysfunction
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Matabolic ecephalopathy
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Gerstmann’s Syndrome = damage to which brain region
Name some symptoms
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parietal lobe….acalculia, agraphia, finger agnosia
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Cushing’s syndrome = high levels of _____ in the _____gland
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Cortisol in the adrenal
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Lesions in the thalamus and mammillary bodies results in ______ and also includes thiamine defienciy
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Wernicke’s encephalopathy
12
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Pupillary dilation, nausea, and muscular weakness are symptoms of
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Stimulant intoxication
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random factors that produce a nonrepresentative sample =
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sampling error
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regarding test bias, a slope bias occurs when
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a predictor’s validity coefficient differs for different groups
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Equity theory =
Buffering hyp =
Partial reinf aka =
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Equity = social comparison Buffering = social support protects from stress Partial = intermittent
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In managed care, the gatekeeper is considered to be the ?
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primary care physician
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Byrne’s law of attraction state we spend time with others who are similar in attitude because of reinforcement, schemas, social comparison, or self-monitoring?
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Reinforcement - being with others confirms our effectiveness for the way we interpret the world
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Sue’s study of outpatient showed improvement across all groups, especially for
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Hispanic Americans
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_______ said that internalization involves and internal reconstruction of an external operation
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Vygotsky
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An assumption underlying consultation is?
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Behavior precedes attitude change
21
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Brief test of mental stability for adults that’s used for hiring
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Wonderlic Personnel Test
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This estimates what a predictor’s validity coefficient will be if the predictor and/or criterion were perfectly reliable
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Attenuation Formula
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formula for z score
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raw - mean / SD
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Orthogonal means that factors are
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uncorrelated
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if the validity coefficient = .70, what is the variability in this score?
49% - square the validity coefficient
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In research of serial positioning and malingering, researchers found that volunteers instructed to malinger are ____ likely to exhibit a _____ effect compared to TBI patients
less likely, primacy effect
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Concurrent review =
Clinical Audit =
concurrent - utilization reviews conducted during tx
Audit - method of quality assurance
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Would you dx depersonalization disorder?
No, it doesn't exist as a standalone. You'd dx depersonalization/derealization dx.
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When releasing records to a third party, what types of consent(s) are acceptable?
verbal OR written - document either way
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Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory of cognitive abilities distinguishes between ___ broad abilities and over ___ narrow abilities
10 broad...70 narrow
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In the tx of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children, what are the effects of cranial radiation AND/OR chemotherapy ?
Either one alone associated with decreased intellectual functioning and lower academic achievement
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What is a challenge of mandating evidence based treatments?
The varied type and intensity of training that differs across regions
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What are the two factors in Herzberge's two factor theory?
Motivator and hygiene factors
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In Herzbeg's two factor theory, job security, pay/benefits, relationships with coworkers, working conditions, and company policies are ___ factors
hygiene
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During the beginning stages of group therapy, group members...
talk through the therapist and seemingly ignore one another
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A predictor's ______ is calculated by diving the # of true positives by the # of true positives PLUS false negatives. Define this term.
Sensitivity - the ability of a test to correctly identify the disease (True Positive)
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in social psych, when behaviors = short term positive outcomes but long-term negative ones, this is called
social trap
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Transmission of emotions through a group is referred to as
Group contagion
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A predictor's ______ is calculated by dividing the # of true negatives by the # of true negatives PLUS false positives. Define this term.
Specificity - ability of the test to correctly identify those without the disease (True Negative)
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Research on the # of years a child stays in daycare is positively correlated with
disobedience and other beh problems
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Weisz's study of outcomes of psychotherapy showed largest effect size for ____ children, adolescents, or adults?
female adolescents
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A predictor's ______ is calculated by dividing the # true positives by the # of true AND false positives. Define this term.
Positive Predictive Value - the probability that subjects with a positive screening test truly have the disease
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Wernicke's = damage to the _____ and results in _____
temporal lobe, receptive amnesia
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Broca's = damage to the ____ and results in issues with ____
frontal lobe, speech production
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A predictor's ______ is calculated by dividing the # true negatives by the # of true AND false negatives. Define this term.
Negative Predictive Value - the probability that subjects with a negative screening test truly don't have the disease
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Behavioral effects of lesions to the hypothalamus and and right cerebral cortex
hypo - aggression
r cerebral cor - indifference, apathy
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Accuracy of a predictor can be described in 4 ways:
1) Sensitivity
2) Specificity
3) Pos Predictive Value
4) Neg Predictive Value
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a one year old has damage to left hemisphere brain that involves damage to broca's area. What's the most likely outcome?
will eventually show language abilities due to takeover of language by the R hemisphere
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the rational-economic model of decision-making views decision-makers as making ____ decisions.
Optimal
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Split-brain = issues with ____ input
sensory
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inability to recognize familiar objects/people
Anomia
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Sue and Sue said playing it cool and Uncle Tom Syndrome are
survival mechanisms
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What is the best predictor of drug use in adolescence?
Prior use of gateway drugs
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Pessimistic vs Optimistic attribution styles
Pess - Stable, internal, general
Opt - Unstable, external, specific
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_____ Intelligence includes acquired skills/knowledge and is strongly affected by education/culture
_____Intelligence includes info processing and less affected by education/culture
Crystallized
Fluid
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Strong predictors of migraines include:
Being female, mid-adulthood, and ambitious/perfectionistic personality
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Depression in Parkinson's appears to be ______ and may precede _____ motor Sxs
endogenous, motor
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Children "At risk" at birth and during early infancy have better outcomes if they
exhibit good social responsiveness during infancy
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Children "at risk" at birth and during early infancy have better outcomes if they
exhibit good social responsiveness during infancy
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Perpetrators of child abuse and neglect are most often
parents
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Implicit memories are recalled without ____
conscious effort
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Comparing genders, who's at increased risk for long-term effects of post-traumatic amnesia?
females
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Solomon four group design is used to evaluate the effects of
pretesting
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Regarding gender and skeletal age.....
Girls are ahead of boys which is why they reach full height faster
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Which of the following is NOT likely to produce psychotic Sxs
Alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, opioids
Opioids
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_____ integrated psychoanalysis into systems theory for family therapy
Ackerman
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Compare genders in crowding situations
women better in lab settings and men better in residential settings
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To reduce tardive dyskenesia
decrease dopamine or dopamine antagonist
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Huntington's = damage to the _____ region of the brain
Caudate nucleus
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In I/O, distributive justice = ______ while procedural justice = ______
Distrib = what a person receives
procedu = how goods are allocated
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What is the most frequently cited negative effect of managed care
Increase in demand due to utilization review
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of IVs and DVs in multiple regression
2+ IVs and 1 DV
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of IVs and DVs in canonical correlation
2+ IVs and more than 1 DV
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Use a _____ to identify/confirm homogenous subgroups
Cluster Analysis
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In a multiple discriminant analysis, the DV is ____ and there are 2+ IVs used to categorize in the DV
DV is nominal
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Group heterogeneity is particularly good in _____ tasks
Disjunctive
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Disjunctive vs conjuctive
Disjunctive - one person has to identify the correct response
Conjuctive - all members have to perform effectively
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A ____ does not begin with an aura and may be worsened by bending over or lifting
Migraine
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In context of Porter' expectancy theory, _______ is the belief that meeting job goals will lead to certain outcomes
instrumentality
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Gaze patterns of heterosexual men and women as they looked at pictures of the opposite sex..
females and males both gazed at the face of the opposite sex for the longest period
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Family therapy is contraindicated in which of the following scenarios...one member has severe depression, there is marital conflict, family target one member, one member has bulimia
One member has severe depression
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If taking the neuroleptic clozapine results in tachycardia, muscle rigidity, hyperthermia, altered consciousness, you should d what and why?
immediately stop meds and administer fluids as it is indicative of Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, which can be lethal
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Attribution styles in context of achievement and gender
Men accomplish feminine and masculine tasks due to ability but women accomplish feminine tasks due to ability and masculine tasks due to luck
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Hypersomnia, increased weight and craving for carbs are indicative of which dx?
Seasonal Affective Dis
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L-Dopa is a dopamine ____
agonist
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Agonist vs Antagonist
agonist - increases action of a NT and antagonist - reduces availability of a NT
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Improvement in performance due to presence of others is called
social facilitation
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Elaboration likelihood model includes two types of processing routes. Explain.
Central - when highly motivated
Peripheral - when message is weak
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Coefficient of:
equivalence
internal consistency
stability
equiv - forms used at diff times
internal - measure used once for a trait that fluctuates over time
stability - test retest
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Describe the variables' traits in each of the following analyses:
Pearson r
Biserial
Spearman Rho
Point Biserial
Pearon - both are continuous
Biserial - one is artificially dichotomous and other is truly dichotomous
Spearman - both variables expressed in terms of rank
Point Biserial - One is dichotomous and other continuous
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Infants and emotions and 3-6 months and 6-8 months
3-6 - disgust, distress, sadness, interest
6-8 - fear, joy, anger, surprise
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1) Alpha =
2) 1-Alpha =
3) Beta =
4) 1-Beta =
1) rejecting a true null H (Type 1)
2) Retaining a true null H
3) Retaining a false null H (Type 2)
4) Rejecting false null aka power
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what is the best predictor of intellectual disability if the etiology is unknown
low birth weight
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Petit mal (absence) seizure
LOC without prominent motor Sxs
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Atonic seizure
sudden loss of muscle tone and fall down
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Clonic seizure
jerky movements
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Simple Partial Seizure
Initially one-sided, no LOC
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A "Telling" leadership style is best for an employee with what levels of ability and willingness?
Low in both
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A "Selling" leadership style is best for an employee with what levels of ability and willingness?
low ability, high willingness
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A "Participating" leadership style is best for an employee with what levels of ability and willingness?
high ability, low willingness
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A "Delegating" leadership style is best for an employee with what levels of ability and willingness?
High in both
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Complete loss of color vision from a lack of functioning cone cells is
Achromatopsia
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Color agnosia
inability to name/discriminate b/t colors
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Akinetopsia
inability to perceive moving objects
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Prosopagnosia
inability to recognize familiar faces
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angry/irritable, argumentative/defiant, and vindictiveness are the three overarching factors in which dx?
Oppositional defiant disorder
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research on maternal depression's effects on infant development show that the children are at _____ risk for pathology as early as ___ of age.
higher risk...3 months
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Rorshach's "form quality" looks at
congruence between response and reality
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how to treat 5 year old's fear of the dark
coping self-statements and positive imagery
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Jung replaced the concept of the ____ with the concepts of the ___ and ideal ___
ego, self, self
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Accepting contingency fees for professional services in a legal proceeding should..
ordinarily be avoided
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What is the purpose of practical clinical trials?
to evaluate the effects of interventions delivered under typical community conditions
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olanzapine (Zyprexa) and chlorpromazine (Thorazine) are ?
carbamazepine (Tegretol) is ?
Antipsychotics
Anticonvulsant also used for Bipolar
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Best defense for psychologist in litigation is?
Adequate records
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Thermal biofeedback is effective for
Raynaud's
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Overcorrection vs response cost
Overcorrection - punish undesirable behavior then engage in desirable ones
response - remove desirable stimulus when undesirable behavior performed
