Practice 5 Flashcards
key technique for treating agoraphobia
in-vivo exposure
As per the central limit theorem, a sampling distribution reaches a normal shape as:
the size of the sample increases
The triarchic theory says intelligence is made of which three factors?
analytical, creative, and practical
What kind of med would be useful for countering antidepressant SEs of dry mouth, urinary retention, constipation, and blurred vision?
cholinergic
In test construction, _____ refers to the extent to which test items contribute to achieving the stated goals or purpose of testing
relevance
which of the following is the goal of confrontation is psychoanalysis?
1-reduce resistance
2-see a behavior in a new way
3-clarify pt’s statements
4- development of trasnference
2-see a behavior in a new way
If there are 3 groups, each of which is assigned to a different treatment, and each group is measured for tx effects at 3 times, which type of design best describes this?
Mixed
Helms says that the ability of Whites to develop a healthy racial identity is most closely related to
the extent of racism in the society
Adding money to the manager’s base pay on the basis of his performance
merit pay
rewarding employees on the basis of gains in organizational profits
gain-sharing
workers are paid for each unit they produce
piecework plan
aka cafeteria benefit plan, this gives employees greater control over and flexibility in the benefits they receive
flexible benefit plan
quadriplegia is aka
tetraplegia
Historically, the hallmark of addiction is
tolerance and withdrawal
about ____ of smokers who quit on their own or with assistance relapse within ____ months of quitting
2/3 relapse within 3 months
Hypomania is associated with an ____ in efficiency and _____ in creativity
increase in both
Tulving divided long-term memory in procedural, episodic, and semantic, the latter of which was described by
rules for manipulating words and symbols
removal of reinforcement from a previously learned behavior typically results in an increase in another reinforced behavior…this is known as
behavioral contrast
a reliability coefficient that indicates the correlation of a test with itself
monotrait-monomethod coefficient
a reliability coefficient that indicates the correlation between two different measures of the same trait
monotrait-heteromethod coefficient
a reliability coefficient that indicates the correlation between two similar methods that measure different traits
heterotrait-monomethod coefficient
a reliability coefficient that indicates the correlation between two different methods that measure different traits
heterotrait-heteromethod coefficient
Anna Freud that actions of children during play therapy are forms of ____, while Melanie Klein referred to them as the equivalent of adults engaging in ______
acting out, free association
in multiple regression, an inverse correlation between a predictor and the criterion is indicated by
a negative regression coefficient
research on the serial position effect suggests that when cramming for a test, it’s important to focus more on the material in the
middle
Sue and Zane say that when working with ____ clients, gift giving is ____ during the ____ therapy session to ____ premature termination
Asian-American, encouraged, initial, reduce
Studies have found that _____ (culture) report the highest lifetime rate of IPV
american indians/alaska natives
an examinee’s score on the Rorschach variable ____ is most useful for estimating intelligence
organizational activity
Escape and avoidance result from negative reinforcement but only _____ conditioning combines negative reinforcement with ______.
avoidance, classical conditioning
when teaching complex motor skills to be performed with speed and accuracy, should either, one, both, or none of these skills be emphasized?
emphasize speed over accuracy
youngsters begin describing themselves in terms of personality attributes during which age
the end of middle childhood (10-12)
which is usually stronger, primacy or recency?
primacy
if you’re most concerned about the reliability of an achievement test, which of the following would you like to avoid?
1- fill in the bland
2- true or false
3- essay
4- four alternative multiple choice
true or false
from the POV of psychoanalysis, _____ is viewed as underlying all other defense mechanisms
repression
from the POV of psychoanalysis, _____ is viewed as the most advanced of all defense mechanisms
sublimation
Head start and other compensatory programs are ____ to academic outcome, social adjustment, and employment
beneficial
the five stages of group development as per tuckman and jensen are
Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning
unpleasant feelings of physical restlessness
akathisia
experiencing the feeling of an object (watch, ring) on a missing limb
super-added phantom
experiencing a sensation other than pain in the missing limb without any kind of external stimulation
phantom limb
stimulus in one body part causes a sensation in the missing limb
referred phantom sensation
___ is used to identify problems with surveys and questionnaires in order to revise them
behavioral coding
____ is used to investigate a person’s cognitive processes while working on a complex task
protocol analysis
panic disorder with agoraphobia is or isn’t a dx
NOT
On the AAI, parents categorized as “dismissing” describe their relations with parents in ____ terms and are ____ to recall specific examples. Children of these parents exhibit the _____ attachment style.
positive, unable, avoidant
On the AAI, parents categorized as “preoccupied” often have ____ kids. These parents label their relations with their parents in ____ ways and are ___ to provide specific examples.
resistant, negative, unable
the degree of match between a person’s expressed and measured interests
congruence
the distance between the examinee’s first two code letters on the RIASEC
consistency
degree to which an individual’s interests belong to the same Holland category
coherence
degree to which an examinee’s code occurred in the standardization sample
commonness
paradoxical techniques are strongly associated to who?
Erickson and Haley
a study of sex reassignment surgery found that the ______ of patients _____ expressed gender dysphoria following surgery
majority no loner expressed
African-Americans prefer a ____ model of therapy which is aka ____
multisystems, ecostructural
When blacks are severely oppressed, they may begin evaluating themselves against White standards..which consequence of oppression does this describe?
Split-self syndrome
the ____ brown formula is used to estimate the effects of shortening or lengthening a test
spearman-brown
_____ is used to measure internal consistency
coefficient alpha
another name for the alternative forms reliability coefficient
coefficient of equivalence
inter-rater reliability is measured with the kappa statistic or by calculating _____
percent agreement
research shows that flextime has the greatest impact on
absenteeism
Black families are most likely to be responsive to _____, _____ approaches
problem-solving, time-limited
Goal-setting theory, equity theory, and expectancy theory share what in common
human cognition affects behavior
McClelland said the need for power can be described in two types:
personal and socialized
