Practice Tests Flashcards
Motor movements associated with Huntington are due to what
Deterioration of cells in the globus pallidus
What does increasing alpha from .01 to .05 do
Increases statistical power and probability to making a type I error (false pos.)
Position Analysis Questionnaire
Structured questionnaire that provides information needed to compare worker activities for different jobs
Item Difficulty Index
Goes from 0-1.0 with 0 being a super hard question and 1.0 indicating a super easy question. So to increase difficulty of an exam you add more questions with low item difficulty index scores
Communality scores
Whatever the commonality score is, that’s how much of the variability in scores is explained by the identified factors.
Heritability of schizophrenia for twins
The frequency of offspring if nonaffected twins is similar to frequency of affected twin offspring developing schizophrenia, and both values are greater than the frequency in the general population.
Oregon social learning center
Created intervention for aggressive, antisocial behavior in children and it focuses on teaching parents effective parenting strategies
Identifying behavioral anchors for behaviorally anchored rating scales
You would use a critical incident technique to do this.
Behavioral anchors are descriptions of specific job behaviors that represent good, average, poor performance.
Strong Interest Inventory
Provides scores on Holland’s six occupational themes: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional
Getting high reliability during test development
Longer tests tend to be more reliable, and reliability coefficients are higher when possible scores obtained are unrestricted (i.e., when samples are heterogenous)
Comparable worth
For people who perform different jobs with similar skills and responsibilities should be paid equally. Important in wage gap issued.
Emotion development
Embarrassment, envy, empathy develop 18-24mths; shame, guilt, pride develop 30-36mths
Primary prevention
An intervention targeted at people who don’t have a certain issue yet to intervene before they develop such an issue/condition
Predictor beta weight
The beta weight represents the strength of the relationship between the predictor and the criterion. The value of the beta weight suggests the strength of the relationship (negative value is negative rx and vice versa)
Conceptualization in Stress Inoculation training
Conceptualization is the first stage and it is when the therapist helps the patient realize their performance failures are due to skill deficits.
Contralateral neglect and strokes
Most indicative of damage to parietal lobe
Latent Inhibition
In the context of classical conditioning. This is when pre exposure to an intended conditioned stimulus alone multiple times before the conditioning starts decreases the likelihood it will become a conditioned stimulus. The ore exposure inhibits the association process.
Informational influence v. Normative influence
Informational influence is more powerful when the task is ambiguous and difficult.
Interns struggling with internship rotation
If it’s time limited or specific to a certain population and it’s due to family or personal things you can reassign. Even though the intern should likely seek therapy you should reassign them because of the situation.
Divorce and remarriage outcomes
The outcomes are worst for kids when the parent remarries during the kids early adolescence.
Howard et. al. And the “dose effect”
They found that 50% of patients had improvement by the 8-13th session, 75% of patients in therapy showed improvement by the 26th session, and 85% by the 52nd
Job burnout characteristics
Depersonalization and cynicism, sense of inefficacy, exhaustion
Elaborative rehearsal
Best way to get stuff from short to long term. Includes recalling things and adding personalized or more detailed info in order to remember it
Holland’s self directed search questionnaire
High scores on realistic scale = you prefer to work with things than people
High scores on enterprising scale = you like to lead and persuade people
High scores on conventional scale = you like to do work that has set procedures and rules
High scores on investigative scale = you like to work with ideas and solve problems
Turner syndrome
Caused by a total or partial deletion on an X chromosome for females.
Sxs: small stature, webbed neck, infertility, usually need hormones to develop secondary sex characteristics.
Working memory and fluid intelligence
Working memory and fluid intelligence are correlated and even when tasks may not be the same working memory can improve fluid intelligence Performance because of similar underlying skills needed. So giving someone coaching on a difficult working memory task improves fluid intelligence performance even on unrelated tasks.
Narcolepsy medications
Sodium oxalate = good for daytime sleepiness, night time sleep, reducing cataplexy
Modafinil and methylphenidate = good for daytime sleepiness
Fluoxetine = good for reducing cataplexy
Increasing test cut off score
Decreases true and false positives, increases true and false negatives
Work family conflict research
Men and women experience similar levels of work family conflict. Very small differences when looking at dual income households (men experience more work conflict in family time) or multiple children (women experience more family in work conflicts)
Dismissive attachment style
As adults these people with deny or devalue important family rxs or give contradictory info
Benzos for Anxiety
Diazepam (valium), alprazolam (xanax), lorazepam (ativan)
Selective abstraction
Making a conclusion based on minimal evidence.
Different from arbitrary inference which is making conclusions without any corroborating info
Ex: thinking your are terrible worker when you get one piece of critical feedback surrounded by positive feedback is selective abstraction. While arbitrary inference in a teacher thinking she is terrible when two students leave the first class before the period is over (you have no real idea why they left class, could have been in the wrong class)
MMPI 4-9
Indicative of antisocial tendencies, low frustration tolerance, impulsivity
(Psychopathic deviant, hypomanic)
Fading
Fading is when you gradually decrease hints or cues.
Different from thinning when you are gradually removing reinforcement
Goal setting theory
Don’t always need the supervisee to be involved for the goal to be met. Best for them to be involved when the supervisee has high need for achievement or is unlikely to accept the goal without collaboration.
Driver and Brousseau career concept model
4 factors = linear, expert, spiral, transitory
They all differ in relation to direction of career movement and frequency of career change.
Disintegration stage (Helms)
Processing strategy is suppression of info and ambivalence
Bottom up processing
Data driven. Begins with incoming sensory info and is then processed and perceived and interpreted
Top down processing
Concept driven. Brain uses pre-existing knowledge and expectations to interpret incoming sensory input
Implicit memories location
Cerebellum and basal ganglia
Structural family therapy techniques for joining with family
Tracking = adopting content of family communication to join with them
Mimesis = adopting communication, behavioral, and affective styles of family
Maintenance = providing family with support
Actor observer bias
Attributional bias and is the tendency to attribute own behaviors to situational factors and behavior of others to dispositions factors.
Alheimzers and brain
Locus coerulus is considered ground zero of alzheimers. And then other areas like amygdala, thalamus, and corpus callosum are effected.
Illiciting change
Greatest emotion related to change is shame. Dispositional appraisal is most likely to lead to change and shame is dispositional (i.e., I’m a bad person)
Universal prevention programs
Aimed at all members of a population regardless of level of risk i.e., all pregnant women
Selective intervention program
Aimed at those who are known to be at risk for a disorder or condition i.e., pregnant low income women
Indicated prevention programs
Aimed at individuals who are at high risk for a disorder i.e., low income preg women who have had a moscarriage
Secondary prevention program
Aimed at individuals who have been identified as being at elevated risk for a disorder or condition
