Practice Tests Flashcards
Paradoxical Techniques
Restraining - telling don’t change
Positioning - exaggerating severity of symptom
Prescription - engage in target bx in exaggerated form
Short-term and Long-term memory strategies
elaboration - making info meaningful (best way to retain info)
mnemonics better than rote rehearsal in short-term but not long-term
Ribot’s Law
remote memories return first than recent after memory loss
Halstead-Reitan Test
assesses brain damage
add # of measures scored in the abnormal range and divide by total # of measures
ECT impact
mainly anterograde some retrograde
word developement
social or functional expressions;
objects that are permanent, familiar, and movable;
action words
The purpose of rotation in factor analysis is to facilitate interpretation of the factors.
Rotation alters the factor loadings for each variable and the eigenvalue for each factor
Learned Optimism (Seligman)
external, unstable, specific attributions
Larry P. v. Riles
banned the use of IQ tests in the placement of minority children in special education classes
Capitation
providers are paid a specific dollar amount, for a specific time period, to cover the service needs of a specific number of people
Depression and sleep
more rapid onset of REM, increased %age of REM, decreased %age of slow wave sleep
Central Limits Theorem
the shape of a sampling distribution of means approaches normality as sample size increases
Autism and speech
about half don’t speak, echolalia, reversal of pronouns
Item Characteristic (Response) Curve
- item difficulty - L/R position of curve
- discriminates b/w high and low scorers - slope of curve
- probability of answering by guessing - Y-intercept
Huntington’s Disease is most associated with decreased amounts of
GABA leads to increased Dopamine leading to chorea
striatum (caudate and putamen) of the basal ganglia
Psychoanalytic Mania
mania occurs as a defense against depression due to an inability of the person to tolerate or admit to being depressed
Lazarus’s Theory of Emotion
thought must precede any emotion or physiological arousal
facial feedback theory of emotion
changes in facial muscles cues the brain and provides the bases of emotion
Absence or Petit Mal Seizure Location
originate in Thalamus
usually begin in childhood and outgrow by adulthood
J.P. Guilford and Intelligence
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
Galton and Intelligence
inherited trait that is distributed normally across the population
first IQ test - gifted people
Thurstone and Intelligence
applied factor analysis leading to Primary Mental Abilities - individuals possess varying degrees of sub-components of intelligence
OCD brain structure
Caudate Nucleus is overactive in OCD
Postcentrual Gyrus
somatosensory cortex
