Reminders 2 Flashcards

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Cruzfeldt-Jakob’s disease

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Caused by Prions disease

Most aggressive (rapidly progressing) form of neurocognitive disorder

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Drugs that reduce tics

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Drugs that reduce dopamine

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Three primary sx of schizophrenia

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Hallucinations
Delusions
Disorganized speech

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4
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Early Alzheimer’s will show degeneration…

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In the entorhinal cortex

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Causes of adolescent-limited and life-course persistent development of antisocial traits

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Adolescent-limited type is due to a maturity gap

Life-course persistent is due to neurological deficits

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Lifetime suicide risk for people with BD

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15x higher than general population

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Techniques used to teach verbal communication to autistic children

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Discrimination training and shaping

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For sleep issues in people with MDD

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Increased sleep latency
Increased REM density
Decreased REM latency
Decreased slow-wave sleep

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High expressed emotion predicts relapse of…

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Schizophrenia and MDD

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Illness anxiety disorder

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Preoccupation with having or getting a serious illness

May or may not have somatic sx, if you do they’re usually mild

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“Analysis” practice of psychoanalysis involves…

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Confrontation
Clarification
Interpretation
Working through

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Teleological approach

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Adler

Emphasizes future goals over past behaviors

(Style of life and striving towards superiority, depends on social interest)

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Focus of narrative family therapy

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Focuses on how the problem is effecting the family (the problem is the problem, not the person)

Replacing problem-saturated stories with satisfying and supportive stories (meeting family, listening for sparking moments, separating members for their problems, enacting preferred narratives, strengthening the better narratives)

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Two types of questions used by narrative family therapists

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Externalizing questions - view problems as being outside of yourself (what does your anger tell you to do)

Opening space questions - help members identify unique outcomes (have there ever been times when xyz didn’t happen)

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Circular questioning

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Part of systemic family therapy (Milan)

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Joining

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Part of structural family therapy

Allows you to enter the family and make adjustments, while still keeping and forming therapeutic rapport (being supportive to the family)

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Scaling questions

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Solution-focused therapy

Helps clients evaluate their current progress towards their treatment goals

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18
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What explains increase of stress and mental health symptoms in LGBT clients

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Minority stress

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19
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What percentage of patients receive sx improvement after [ # ] sessions?

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75% see improvement after 26 sessions

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20
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Object constancy

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Part of object relations theory

Maintaining a positive connection with your significant other even when they are not immediately gratifying your needs

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Sue and Sue’s example of twins communicating vs attorneys communicating

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High and low communication

High for twins growing up in same house
Low for two attorneys communicating in court

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Efficacy vs Effectiveness

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Efficacy - highly controlled trials of whether something works
(High internal validity, low external validity)

Effectiveness - less controlled, more error
(High external validly, low internal validity)

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Per Cross’s model, when a minority person does not appraise their problems to be the result of discrimination…

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They are in the pre-encounter phase

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Per Helms model, when a white therapist can best work integrative,y with minorities…

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They are in the autonomy stage

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25
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Theme interference

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Caplan

When loss of objectivity occurs because the therapist is treating clients in accordance with a past interaction

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26
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Electronic stimulation of the ___________ causes aggression in animals

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Hypothalamus

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27
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Conduction aphasia

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Damage to arcuate fasciculus (connects Wernicke’s and Broca’s areas)

Fluent speech, normal communication, impaired repetition

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Weber’s law

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JND is due to a constant proportion

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Low metabolites of serotonin in the CSF…

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Found in individuals with increased risk of suicide attempts and completed suicide

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30
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Purpose of dichroic listening task

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Studies of hemispheric specialization

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31
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Quality of REM dreams…

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More emotional and bizarre than dreams occurring in other sleep stages

More likely to be remembered than dreams in other sleep stages

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32
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Papez Circuit is related to…

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Emotional expression and experiences

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33
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Cause of diabetes insipidus

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Low levels of ADH (secreted by the pituitary)

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Ideomotor apraxia

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Damage to the left dominant parietal lobe

Cannot turn an idea into action (would struggle with being given verbal commands to do something)

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35
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What part of the brain is associated with OCD

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Basal ganglia

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36
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Simple partial seizures VS Complex partial seizures

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Both have tingling and jerking of limbs, blinking, sometimes only on one side of the body (less severe than tonic clinic jerking)

Simple Partial - no alteration in consciousness
Complex Partial - alteration in consciousness

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37
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Years of infantile amnesia

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3-4yo

Neither adults nor children can recall memories from before this age

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38
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What part of temperament (per Kagan) is biologically based and stable over time

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Behavioral inhibition

Can be altered by env situations

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Three types of responders in the Adult Attachment Interview

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Autonomous - coherent descriptions of childhood (secure attachment)

Preoccupied - angry, confused, passive (resistant attachment)

Dismissing - when you have positive reports but no memories to back it up (avoidant attachment)

40
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Social information processing model

Crick and Dodge

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Aggression in kids is due to a hostile attribution bias

Deficiencies and biases in: encoding of cues, interpretation of cues, clarification of goals (retaliation), response search, response decision (agg will have favorable outcome), behavioral enactment

41
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Exposure to CMD (prenatal exposure to herpes) will can result in

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Sensorineural hearing loss

42
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Kohlbergs levels of morality development

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Preconventional - punishment (obedience) and rewards (hedonism)

Conventional - social approval (good boy/girl) and law (law and order)

Postconventional - accepted by group (democratic accepted laws) and is it consistent with universally accepted principles (morality of individual principles)

43
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When are outcomes worst for the relationship between stepparents and stepchildren

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When remarriage happens in early adolescence

D/t the child dealing with many other personal and social adjustments at that stage of development

44
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When do single consonant-vowel combinations emerge

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3-6mo

Contain all the sounds possible

By 9mo the babbling narrows to sounds in the native language

45
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What play stage allows for a zone of proximal development

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Vygotsky

Make-believe play - creates a ZPD for learning and adhering to social roles

46
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Three levels of friendship development

Damon

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Handy playmate

Mutual trust and assistance

Intimacy and loyalty

47
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Heritability estimate

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The variability of a trait in a population due to genetic and environmental factors

48
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When is the infant vocabulary spurt

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18 mo

Before that the baby knows about 50 words, and then the vocabulary increases

49
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Tertiary circular reactions

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Using objects to move other objects

Dropping objects to see what happens when they fall and land

50
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At what age is a baby’s brain 75% of its adult size

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By 24mo

51
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What is the first self-consciousness emotion to emerge

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Embarrassment

30-36mo - shame, guilt, pride

52
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Systematic desensitization

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John Wolpe - tx for anxiety

Learn relaxation, construct hierarchy, imagines the stimuli lowest on the hierarchy first and go from there

53
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Success in systematic desensitization

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Wolpe

Due to classical extinction
(You keep getting exposed to a conditioned stimuli without the paired US that produced the anxiety)

54
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Stimulus control

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When a behavior is brought about under one stimulus but not another (ex. Rat press a lever when light blinks, doesn’t press when light doesn’t blink)

A form of two-factor learning

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Stimulus control is two-factor learning, which means it incorporates…

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Classical and operant conditioning

56
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Two types of stimuli in stimulus control

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Positive discriminative stimulus - that a reward will follow

Negative discriminative stimulus - that a reward will not follow

57
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Implosive therapy components

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Classical extinction (imagined) and psychodynamic themes

58
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Chaining vs Shaping

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Chaining - used for complex behaviors when you link together SEQUENCED behaviors

Shaping - uses SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATIONS to guide behavior (does not include behavior sequences)

59
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What intelligence test is based on the PASS model

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Cognitive Assessment System

Planning
Attention
Simultaneous processing
Sequential processing

60
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SB5 routing tests

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Object series/matrices

Vocabulary

61
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What’s the commonality of all single subject designs

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They measure the DV multiple times during each phase

62
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Point Biserial Correlation Coefficient

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One variable is dichotomous and one is continuous

63
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Homoscedasticity

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When the variability of scores around one variable is relatively the same at different values of the other variable

(Erroneously inflates the correlation coefficient)

64
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T-test for correlated samples

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When the two groups are related in some way

Includes participants that are matched and divided up

65
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How to increase power

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(The likelihood of correctly rejecting a false null - finding real effects)

Increasing the size of alpha
Increasing effect size
Using parametric tests when possible

66
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Optimal item difficulty (p) for true/false questions

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0.75

In between chance and all correct
0.5 is chance, 1.0 is all correct…so 0.75 is halfway

67
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Validity VS Reliability

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Reliability = consistency

Validity = accuracy

68
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Test reliability decreases when…

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The changes of getting items correct by chance increases

T/F tests have worst reliability
3-choice multiple choice tests
4-choice multiple choice tests
Fill in the blanks have best reliability

69
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Orthogonal v Oblique

Factor analysis

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Orthogonal = uncorrelated (assume factors are uncorrelated)

Oblique = correlated (assume factors are correlated)

70
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Chronbach’s (coefficient) alpha

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Internal consistency

The correlation of test items to each other

71
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Coefficients for interrater reliability

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Kappa

Coefficient of concordance

72
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Eta

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Coefficient used to determine the association between two NONLINEAR continuous variables

73
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Distribution of percentile ranks

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Rectangular

74
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Assumption of classical test theory

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Measurement error is random

75
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Uninvited solicitation…

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Is never okay

76
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Can you refuse to release test data to clients even if they ask for it

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Yes if it’ll cause imminent and serious physical harm to the person

77
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Confidentiality and EAP

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Same confidentiality rules apply to off-work therapy

No information is released to supervisors unless the person signs a releas

78
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Problems with the PhD Candidate credential

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It’s misleading and makes it look like you’ve already got credentials

Don’t use it to identify yourself when offering services in graduate school

79
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Can you still report sexual harassment if a patient tells you not to

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No. You can not violate their confidentiality.

80
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What do you do if you want to use a test that hasn’t been validated for a specific population

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  1. You can do it as long as there are no other alternativeS

2. Explain the limitations of the results to the client

81
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What to consider when a potential multiple relationship arises
(Eg. When your new therapy clients join your church)

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Consider if it’ll impact your objectivity, competence, and/or effectiveness

82
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RIASEC traits that are similar

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Place RIASEC types into a hexagon… most similar personality traits will be on either side

83
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Types of technostructural interventions

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Business progress reengineering
Alternative work schedules
Downsizing
Job enrichment

84
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Job satisfaction is stable…

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Across time

Across jobs and careers

85
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Type A behavior most associated with heart disease

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Hostility

86
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Frame-of-Referencing training

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Shows multidimensionality of job performance, and what good performance looks like at each level

87
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Multiple regression

I/O

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Compensatory method for combining several scores from selection tests

88
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Competency modeling

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Linking requirements for successful performance to organizational values, goals, and strategies

89
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Utility analysis

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Examines the impact of the selection or origination all procedure on returns on investment

90
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Increases in cortisol lead to…

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Degeneration of neurons in the hippocampus

Memory impairment

91
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V-Y-J leadership model

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Involves a decision tree

92
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When you have two opposing attitudes, and feel the need to change one of them…

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Balance theory

93
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Law of attraction

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The positive relationship between similar attitudes and interpersonal attraction is due to REINFORCEMENT

94
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Ultimate attribution error

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When you attribute a GROUP’s successes to situational factors and a GROUP’s failures to dispositional factors

(It’s fundamental attribution error to an entire group of people)

95
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Stages of group development

Tuckman and Jensen

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Forming
Storming
Norming 
Performing
Adjourning
96
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What was the initial prediction of psychiatrists made in the Milgram Study (predictions on people who would participate in delivering shocks)

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