Practice 4 Flashcards
Studies of sexually explicit movie have found that men who view them tend to rate their own sexual partners as ____ attractive
more
If you receive a subpoena to testify but the pt says no, you contact the ____ who issued the subpoena
attorney
Physical guidance is sometimes necessary when using ____ but you must be cautious to to aggression
overcorrection
Kids with ADHD have lowest score on which of the WISC indexes?
processing speed
According to Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior, a person’s ____ is directly influenced by three factors
behavioral intention
a 4 year old hates string beans and thinks when they get chopped up into smaller pieces he is eating more than if they are whole. A Piagetian would say this is an example of
irreversibility
According to ____, a person’s career concept can be described as linear, expert, spiral, or transitory
Brousea and Driver
perseveration is linked to damage in what brain region?
frontal lobe
a physician is most likely to prescribe a drug that ____ the reuptake of ____ for premature ejaculation
inhibits seratonin
Under hypnosis, a person is least likely to:
a. experience alterations in memory
b. believe anything
c. do things their fundamentally opposed to
d. stop feeling pain
c. do things their fundamentally opposed to
piaget’s concrete operational stage is between the ages of
7-11
onset of stranger anxiety for most children is from ___ to ___ months
8-10 months
when deception is used in a study, participants should be debriefed……
about the purpose as possible after their participation
differences in structure between males and females of same species is referred to as
sexual dimorphism
Broadbent found suppoert for his filter theory of attention with the ______ task
dichotic listening
you’re asked how you liked the concert last weekend but as you try to recall, you realize your memory’s being affected by other concerts you’ve attended. Your memory for last weekend’s concert is likely being affected by?
your schema for concerts
according to Carol Gilligan, adolescent girls need experiences that help them
stay connected to themselves and others
PKU is an autosomal recessive disorder, which means that a person with the disorder as inherited ____ ________ allele from each parent.
one recessive
A person is homozygous with regard to PKU when he has ___ _______ allele(s) for that condition
two recessive
A person is heterozygous with regard to PKU when he has two _______ _______ for that condition
two different
When both parents are heterozygous for PKU, ___% will have the disorder, ___% will not have and not carry it, and ___% will be carriers.
25, 25, 50
When one parent is heterozygous for PKU and the other is homozygous, ___% of their offspring will be carriers and ___% will not have it
50 and 50
Nicotine enhances alertness by mimicking ___ at nicotinic receptor sites
Ach
Stead’s review of the literature found that ___ is the most effective form of nicotine replacement therapy
nicotine nasal spray
The major disadvantage of the BARS rating scale is
time and effort to develop
the three approaches to healthcare are
private model, beveridge model, and bismarck model
in the context of incremental validity, the positive hit rate is calculated by
dividing the true positives by the total positives
in adolescence, sibling relationships usually become ____ emotionally intense and ____ distant
less emotional…more distant
the deese-roediger-mcdermott paradigm refers to
recalling a word that is similar in content/meaning to a list with several words, although that word was not actually there (aka the list is tired, bedtime, yawn but you recall the word sleep)
A T score of 70 = ____ %ile
97th
studies investigating the genetic contribution to major depression have found that the risk for depression is _______ for biological offspring who have either ___ or ____ parents with depression
one or both
for specific phobia, blood-injection-injury type, relaxation techniques are normally ______
contraindicated
Raising the cutoff score on a selection test to hire the most qualified applicants would ____ the number of ____ positives
reduce true positives
cross-sectional designs are used to assess the effects of the ____ across different _____ .
IV across age groups
wernicke’s encephalopathy is due to
a thiamine deficiency
An informed consent may or may not be required when the study is unlikely to cause harm or is exempted by legal/institutional regulations?
may not be required
Approximately __ to __% of left-handed people are left-hemisphere dominant for language
50-60
a communality is the proportion of variance accounted for by one or various factors in how many variables?
multiple factors in a single variable
Treating depression by having the pt keep a record of positive experiences would be consisted with ___ theory of Self-control
Rehm’s
if scores on 2 tests are correlated, multiplying each score in one set of test scores will _____the magnitude of the Pearson r
have no effect on
Savin-Williams’ study on the sexual identity trajectory among sexual minority youth found that adolescent _____ had an earlier onset of all milestones except ___ disclosure of sexual orientation to another person
males, first
stepwise multiple regression would be used to identify the ____ number of predictors needed to account for ____ validity
fewest, criterion
Project match found what regarding the effects of CBT, TSF, and MET on alcoholism
all had similar effects
Carl Jung identified what as the source of psychic energy?
libido
score transformations that alter the rank order and relative size of the distance between scores are referred to as _____ transformations
nonlinear
score transformations that preserve the rank order and relative size of the distance between scores are referred to as _____ transformations
linear
ex post facto research is distinguished from true experimental research by
an inability to manipulate the IVs
what do you use to analyze unidirectional and bidirectional causal relationships between measured and latent variables?
LISREL aka linear structural equation analysis
what do you use to analyze unidirectional causal relationships between observed variables only?
path analysis
a confluent paranoiac exhibits ____ cultural and ____ functional paranoia
high both
Piaget’s concept of animistic thinking is the ____ stage and attributed it to ___
preoperational…egocentrism
Neurons in the ____ respond to take, smell, and sight of food
orbitofrontal cortex
Which brain region controls circadian rhythm
suprachiasmatic nuclues
brain region for wakfeulness, arousal, and consciousness
reticular activating system
brain region involved in the consolidation of long-term declarative memories
hippocampus
a test’s criterion-related validity coefficient cannot _____ the square root of its _____ coefficient
exceed….reliability
when a predictor’s reliability coefficient is .75, its criterion-related validity coefficient can be
no greater than the square root of .75
yalom was against seeing the same pt in individual and group therapy because
it may decrease his participation and involvement in group therapy
the pygmalion effect is another name for the
rosenthal effect
the correspondence bias is another name for
the fundamental attribution bias
cues in the research situation that communicate to subjects what behaviors are expected of them
demand characteristics
double checking results that conflict with your hypothesis more than those that confirm it is an example of
experimenter expectancy effect
in crowded situations, females use ___ effective coping strategies than males
less
Medications slow down memory loss in Alzheimer’s by ____the breakdown of _____
preventing breakdown of Ach
classical conditioning involves which brain region
cerebellum
implicit memory’s brain region explicit memory’s brain region
implicit = cerebellum explicit = hippocampus
A ___ dose of an SSRI is usually required when treating OCD than when treating ____
higher, depression
job enrichment is a concept in ___ theory, and would most likely be opposed by ____ theory. because it says that workers are motivated by ____ rewards
two-factor, scientific management-external
_____ theory says that energy expenditure and performance are positively related to _____. So enriched jobs provide this which increases activation aka _______
activation theory, stimulus variability, motivation
A person-centered therapist would probably respond to a client’s transference by _______ it
disregarding
regarding child adjustment to parent remarriage, ____ age at the time of remarriage and ___ gender have fewer problems adjusting to a stepparent
younger, female
the loss of memory for personal info limited to a circumscribed time
localized amnesia
issues related to attachment, safety, and security would be of interest to a practitioner of of
object relations
the reciprocal teaching method was influenced by
vygotsky
