Practice Exams Flashcards
Can you accept contingent fees?
No
Middle class white with IC-IR would have a black client most difficult if they are
IC-ER
Paiget views development as: passive/active: continuous/discontinous
- active and discontinuous (each stage is different)
Internal validity would get threatened by not doing what? random assignment to groups or random sampling?
Random assignment to groups
What is the MMPI fake bad profile?
Low K
High F
When is informed consent not necessary?
Investigating educational practice. Still may need it in naturalistic if observed content may be incriminating
What is self perfection theory in the epinephrine studies?
When people don’t have an explanation for their arousal they will look to context
What has least impact on kids?
Frequency of contact with dad
Re: language, damage to the right hemisphere is related to what?
Damage to pragmatics and emotional prosody
Which is least susceptible to siation?
- primary, secondary or generalized reinforcers?
Generalized
Withdrawal after heavy use of what leads to seizures?
Alcohol
Greatest age related atrophy
Prefrontal cortex and parietal lobes
Systems theory. Define positive and negative feedback
- positive - changes status quo - change
- negative maintains status quo
Encoding specific hypothesis’s
- conditions learned = conditions recalled
Describe sensitivity and specificity
- true positives
- true negatives
Self defining memories are what (3)
- unresolved conflict
- resistant to change
- emotional
Are culturally competent interventions effective for all groups?
- just adults
- stress and cortisol in hippocampus leads to what
- can retrieve declarative memories
Is extinction a good strategy to stop behaviour?
No because of extinction burst
Can you date previous therapy clients?
If 2 years passes + other contingencies
What big 5 increases with age?
Agreeableness and conscientiousness
Newborns have 3 cries signalling what?
Hunger, pain, anger
Actor-observer effect
- actor - situational
- observer - dispositional