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Paradoxical Techniques

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Restraining - telling don’t change
Positioning - exaggerating severity of symptom
Prescription - engage in target bx in exaggerated form

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Short-term and Long-term memory strategies

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elaboration - making info meaningful (best way to retain info)

mnemonics better than rote rehearsal in short-term but not long-term

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Ribot’s Law

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remote memories return first than recent after memory loss

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Halstead-Reitan Test

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assesses brain damage

add # of measures scored in the abnormal range and divide by total # of measures

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ECT impact

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mainly anterograde some retrograde

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word developement

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social or functional expressions;
objects that are permanent, familiar, and movable;
action words

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The purpose of rotation in factor analysis is to facilitate interpretation of the factors.

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Rotation alters the factor loadings for each variable and the eigenvalue for each factor

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Learned Optimism (Seligman)

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external, unstable, specific attributions

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Larry P. v. Riles

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banned the use of IQ tests in the placement of minority children in special education classes

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Capitation

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providers are paid a specific dollar amount, for a specific time period, to cover the service needs of a specific number of people

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Depression and sleep

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more rapid onset of REM, increased %age of REM, decreased %age of slow wave sleep

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Central Limits Theorem

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the shape of a sampling distribution of means approaches normality as sample size increases

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Autism and speech

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about half don’t speak, echolalia, reversal of pronouns

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Item Characteristic (Response) Curve

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  1. item difficulty - L/R position of curve
  2. discriminates b/w high and low scorers - slope of curve
  3. probability of answering by guessing - Y-intercept
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Huntington’s Disease is most associated with decreased amounts of

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GABA leads to increased Dopamine leading to chorea

striatum (caudate and putamen) of the basal ganglia

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Psychoanalytic Mania

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mania occurs as a defense against depression due to an inability of the person to tolerate or admit to being depressed

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Lazarus’s Theory of Emotion

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thought must precede any emotion or physiological arousal

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facial feedback theory of emotion

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changes in facial muscles cues the brain and provides the bases of emotion

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Absence or Petit Mal Seizure Location

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originate in Thalamus

usually begin in childhood and outgrow by adulthood

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J.P. Guilford and Intelligence

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convergent thinking - group or analyze divergent ideas leading to a unifying concept of single solution

divergent thinking - generate creative, new ideas or elaborate or branch off from traditional approaches (brainstorming or thinking outside the box

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Galton and Intelligence

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inherited trait that is distributed normally across the population

first IQ test - gifted people

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Thurstone and Intelligence

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applied factor analysis leading to Primary Mental Abilities - individuals possess varying degrees of sub-components of intelligence

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OCD brain structure

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Caudate Nucleus is overactive in OCD

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Postcentrual Gyrus

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somatosensory cortex

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Paraphasia

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production of unintended syllables, words, or phrases

- symptom of anomia

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Gardner and Intelligence

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Theory of multiple intelligences

ability to solve real-life problems, to generate new problems, and to create something meaningful or offer a service that is valued within a person’s culture or local community.

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Weber’s Law

Weber-Fechner Law

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Just Noticeable Difference depends on the magnitude of the original stimulus

psychophysical law - logarithmic relationships that explains relationship b/w physical stimuli and their psychological effects (perception)

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Sternberg and Intelligence

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triarchi model of intelligence:
Componential - analytical
Experiential - creative
Practical - contextual

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Perkins and Intelligence

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3 dimensions:

Neural, Experiential, Reflective - contrasting causal factors that contribute to intelligence

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30
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Hiskey-Nebraska Test of Learning Aptitude

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3-16

Deaf students

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Leiter International Performance Scale

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2-18

reading and speaking difficulties

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Columbia Mental Maturity Scale

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3.6 - 9.11

issues with reading, speaking, and/or sensorimotor

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Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test

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2.6+

expressive language disorder/vocabulary difficulty but no hearing issues

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Mammillary Bodies and memory

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involved with explicit memory

35
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Thalamus and memory

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Medial - explicit

Ventral - implicit

36
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Central Sulcus

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divides frontal and parietal lobes

37
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Lateral Fissure

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separates temporal, frontal, and parietal lobes

38
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Precental Gyrus

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Motor Cortex

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Postcentral Gyrus

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Somatosensory Cortex

40
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Goddard and Intelligence

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translates Binet to use in US; applied to adults: imbecile, idiot, moron

more feeble-minded among immigrants

41
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Terman and Intelligence

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Stanford-Binet

shift from ratio IQ to deviation IQ

42
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Yerkes

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Army Alpha and Army Beta

innate intelligence, used results for assignment

43
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Hereditarians (Intelligence)

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Goddard, Terman, Burt, Yerkes, Jensen, Herrnstein

44
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Stroke Recovery

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only minority recover fully

most improvement in 6 months with physical disabilities resolving more rapidly than cognitive deficits

45
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Fagan’s Test of Infant Development

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better predictor of later cognitive development because it measures recognition memory

46
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Multiple Sclerosis

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numbness, weakness, tremor, and ataxia are due to demyelination

47
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Raven Colored Progressive Matrices (RCPM)

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ages 5 - 11

36-item test of intelligence that uses figural test stimuli presented in a 6-option multiple-choice format.

48
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Proband

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In research it is the index case

The affected individual who is of immediate concern or who was initially identified because of his/her disorder

49
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3 multicultural counseling competencies

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awareness, knowledge, skills

50
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Tardive Dyskinesia

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related to dopamine oversensitivity and/or GABA depletion

drugs that decrease dopamine or norepinephrine, and those that increase GABA (Benzos)

51
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Kohlberg’s Heinz Dilemma

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steal a drug to save wife or not to steal

obey law or value life

52
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facial expressions by age

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3-4 months:
startle, interest, disgust, distress

5-6: anger and joy
after 6: fear and shyness

53
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Polythetic

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needing only subset of symptoms to obtain diagnosis

54
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Base-rate fallacy

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failure to take into consideration the likelihood of base-rate of something when making decisions or forming attitudes

fear of flying over driving

55
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discounting principle

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tendency to decrease the role of a given cause in producing an effect when other plausible causes are present

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Adult Attachment Interview (Autonomous)

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childhood is pos or neg but give specific examples

have secure kids

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Adult Attachment Interview (Dismissing)

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childhood pos but no specific examples

have avoidant kids

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Adult Attachment Interview (Preoccupied)

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childhood neg or confused but no specific examples

have resistant kids

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Adult Attachment Interview (Unresolved/Disorganized)

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have disorganized/disoriented kids

60
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Communality

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measure of common variance

proportion of variance accounted for by multiple factors in a single variable

61
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Dummy Coding

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allows categorical predictors in a multiple regression equation

62
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Donald Kirkpatrick’s Training Evaluation Model

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1: Participant Reactions (thoughts and feelings about training)
2. Learning or increases in skill and knowledge
3. Behavior/Transfer (use of learning in everyday environment)
4. Results (effects training had on business - income)

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Edgar Schein’s Career Anchors Model

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a person’s self-concept acts as an anchor, or stabilizing force, determining what future occupational decisions will be made.

8 categories: autonomy/independence, 
security/stability, 
technical/functional competence, 
general managerial competence, 
entrepreneurial creativity, 
service/dedication to a cause, 
pure challenge, 
lifestyle
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The M’Naughton Rule

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insanity defense

65
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Distributive/Outcome Justice

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has its roots in social equity theory

satisfied because outcome is seen as both fair and favorable to all

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Procedural Justice

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satisfaction based on the perceived fairness of the process

67
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Interactional Justice

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satisfaction based on the quality of interpersonal treatment received during the process (non-procedural)

2 components:
informational justice and interpersonal justice

68
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Informational Justice

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appropriateness of the explanation given for the procedures used

69
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Interpersonal Justice

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the manner in which people are treated by authority figures in the decision making process

70
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Palilalia

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repetition of one’s own words

71
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Echopraxia and Echokinesis

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imitating or repeating the movements of another person

72
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Ellen Berscheid and Relationships

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problems associated with relationship satisfaction and stability and emotional experiences within relationships related to love and sexuality.

people underestimate the effect of external factors (physical and social environment) on relationship satisfaction

73
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Time Orientation (past, present, future); (Doing vs. Being); and (Individual vs. Group)

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African-American - present, doing, collateral (interdependence over autonomy)

Native Americans - present, being, collateral

Whites - future, individual, doing

Hispanics - past and present, collateral, being

74
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Psychoanalytic perspective on borderline adolescents

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abandonment rage

75
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Backward Masking

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2nd visual impression erases the 1st visual impression

dog than light = dog not recalled

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