Previous test questions

Question 1

EMDR eye movement effect?

Answer 1

Data unclear, perhaps reduces vividness of working memory experience.

Question 2

highest impact of teratogen exposure in pregnancy?

Answer 2

10-14 days after conception to about 8 wks.

Question 3

most reliable predictor of adolescent suicide?

Answer 3

Negative life events according to one study.
Sexual/gender minority status, loss of home, divorce, and psychiatric concerns as well.

Question 4

minority identity development model

Answer 4

Cross
PRE-ENCOUNTER STAGE–Individuals are programmed to
perceive and think of the world as being non-minority or anti-
minority and act in ways that devalue their minority development.
- ENCOUNTER STAGE–Individuals begin to gain awareness of
what it means to be minority, and they begin to validate
themselves in terms of minority identity.
- IMMERSION STAGE–Individuals reject all nonminority values
and fully immerse themselves in minority culture.
- INTERNALIZATION STAGE–Individuals develop a secure and
self-confident minority identity and are also comfortable expressing
preferences and interests for experiences from non-minority cultures.

Question 5

consistency IQ scores across time

Answer 5

WISC and WAIS both highly correlated

Question 6

boot camps

Answer 6

ineffective and may increase behavioral and emotional problems

Question 7

lowest rate of admission for mental health facilities

Answer 7

Children-RCT

Question 8

older infant looking preferences

Answer 8

Young infants, novel and new stimuli is important-older prefer adult faces (also gender and race of adult caregiver)

Question 9

overextension

Answer 9

tendency of very young children to extend the use of a word beyond the scope of its specific meaning “doggie” to refer to all 4 legged animals

Question 10

overgeneralization

Answer 10

cognitive distortion where a person applies something from one event to all other events

Question 11

tricyclics and alcohol

Answer 11

may cause drowsiness and dizziness
also an issue with MAOI

Question 12

survey in organizational development

Answer 12

To assist the organization in diagnosing its problems and developing action plan for problem-solving.

Question 13

Type I error

Answer 13

rejecting the null hypothesis when it’s actually true. It means concluding that results are statistically significant when, in reality, they came about purely by chance or because of unrelated factors

Question 14

Type II error

Answer 14

statistical term used within the context of hypothesis testing that describes the error that occurs when one fails to reject a null hypothesis that is actually false

Question 15

mothers working outside of home?

Answer 15

No negative effects on children-only in first year (need better maternal leave policies)

Question 16

couple member wants individual sessions

Answer 16

If it becomes apparent that psychologists may be called on to perform
potentially conflicting roles (such as family therapist and then witness for
one party in divorce proceedings), psychologists take reasonable steps to
clarify and modify, or withdraw from, roles appropriately-so usually no

Question 17

institutional conflict with APA ethics

Answer 17

institutional laws, regulations, or practices are in conflict with Association standards and guidelines, psychologists make known their commitment to Association standards and guidelines and, wherever possible, work toward a resolution of the conflict

Question 18

repeated measures

Answer 18

used when you have the same measure that participants were rated on at more than two time points

Question 19

mutivariate analysis

Answer 19

The statistical study of data where multiple measurements are made on each experimental unit and where the relationships among multivariate measurements and their structure are important-includes huge variety:
Regression analysis: Used to determine the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variable.
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA): Used to determine the relationship between collections of data by analyzing the difference in the means.
Interdependent analysis: Used to determine the relationship between a set of variables among themselves.
Discriminant analysis: Used to classify observations in two or more distinct set of categories.
Classification and cluster analysis: Used to find similarity in a group of observations.
Principal component analysis: Used to interpret data in its simplest form by introducing new uncorrelated variables.
Factor analysis: Similar to principal component analysis, this too is used to crunch big data into small, interpretable forms.
Canonical correlation analysis:

Question 20

resistant attachment

Answer 20

exaggerated expressions of attachment needs. In the presence of their caregiver these infants are reluctant to explore their environment and preoccupied with getting the attention of their caregiver.

Question 21

autism superior performance test

Answer 21

embedded figures test

Question 22

classical test vs item response

Answer 22

CTT in individual change detection, provided that the tests consist of at least 20 items. For shorter tests, however, CTT is generally better at correctly detecting change in individuals

Question 23

tolerance and dependence

Answer 23

tolerance can form before dependence

Question 24

Holland values interests and preferences

Answer 24

Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional

Question 25

endorphins

Answer 25

opioid neuropeptides

Question 26

leiter international performance scale

Answer 26

measures nonverbal cognitive in children to 20 yrs

Question 27

stimulus and response generalization

Answer 27

response generalization, the response varies while the stimulus conditions remain unchanged, whereas in stimulus generalization the response stays the same but the stimulus conditions change [6]. Response generalization is one of the sources of variation in responding that is the basis for shaping a novel operant.

Question 28

RNA and DNA and memory

Answer 28

may act as some memory in nucleus

Question 29

wernicke’s encephalopathy

Answer 29

thiamiine deficiency alcohol abuse

Question 30

smoking cessation

Answer 30

Ask - Identify and document tobacco use status for every patient at every visit. (You may wish to develop your own vital signs sticker, based on the sample below).
Advise - In a clear, strong, and personalized manner, urge every tobacco user to quit.
Assess - Is the tobacco user willing to make a quit attempt at this time?
Assist - For the patient willing to make a quit attempt, use counseling and pharmacotherapy to help him or her quit. (See Counseling Patients To Quit and pharmacotherapy information in this packet).
Arrange - Schedule followup contact, in person or by telephone, preferably within the first week after the quit date.

Question 31

hostile attributional bias
social information processing

Answer 31

Aggressive children have been found to experience disruptions at most of the stages, particularly at the encoding, interpretation, and response generation stages. They tend to focus their attention on threatening social cues (such as potentially angry facial expressions of the person talking to them), interpret that information in a hostile manner, and generate aggressive responses
Hostile attribution bias is grounded in the second stage of processing: interpretation of cues

Question 32

afr american cultural paranoia

Answer 32

cultural paranoia (sometimes also called healthy paranoia) is an adaptive response by African Americans to the lived experience of being subjected to racially motivated oppression and discrimination

Question 33

alan baddeley’s model of working memory

Answer 33

orking memory is like a multi-part system, and each system is responsible for a different function
4 parts
Central executive.
Phonological loop.
Visuo-spatial working memory.
primary memory split into multiple components
Episodic buffer.

Question 34

radomization and internal validity

Answer 34

increases with randomization

Question 35

depression and anxiety

Answer 35

both have negative affect, only depression has low positive affect