Reminders Flashcards
What must you do when you get an electronic request for records
Make sure a release is signed
Remove all personally identifiable information before sending
What do you do when you get a request for info from an ethics committee
Make sure an ROI has been signed
Comply
Can psychologists exchange services for media advertisement
Nope
Sexual harassment is when…
Someone has said it’s offensive and asks you to stop (and you don’t)
When it is significant enough to be considered abusive by a reasonable person
Bartering is okay when…
It’s even in scale
When it doesn’t create a problem with dual-roles
Ex. Therapist and boss
If someone isn’t progressing in treatment and wants to stay with you
Set a termination date if you can’t find new goals to work on
(No progress on treatment goals, no service)
Contingent fees
Should be avoided
Privilege
Legal requirement that protects client information in LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Thinning
A reduction in reinforcers
Two-factor theory of learning
Contains elements of classic and operant conditioning
Explains avoidance conditioning
What learning heuristic is good for learning a second language
Keyword method
Overcorrection
Positive punishment
Restitution
- some kind of punishment
Positive practice
- reinforce positive, alternative behaviors
Proactive interference
When old information impacts the ability to learn or use new information
Retroactive interference
When newly learned information impacts your ability to recall previously learned material
Mean and SD of WAIS and SBinet
Index scores: mean of 100, sd of 15
Subtest scores: mean of 10, sd of 3
Kaufman Tests
KABC-II intelligence test for children
Can score with Luria’s neuropsychological processing model to remove interference from non-mainstream cultural backgrounds, language or hearing background, or autism
PPVT
Peabody picture vocabulary test
Measure of receptive vocabulary in people with psychosis, autism, motor or speech impairment
Ravens PM
Nonverbal measure of general (fluid) intelligence
Considered a useful multicultural test
How was the Strong Interest Inventory developed
Empirical criterion keying
Comparing the test profiles of various professionals, male and female, to the test profiles of people in general
Holland’s RIASEC
Realistic - technical, mechanical, outdoorsy
Investigative - scientific, mathematical, analytical
Artistic - creative, writing, designer
Social - helping professions, clergy
Enterprising - business, competitive, management, sales
Conventional - structured, unambiguous
High LK
Low F
(On MMPI)
Fake good - giving an overly positive impression
High F
High F-K index
(On MMPI)
Suggests exaggeration of sx
Malingering on the MMPI
Malingering when LK are around 50
And F is slightly elevated
And clinical scales are sawtoothed
High F scale
Significant scores on clinical scales (most or all)
(On the MMPI)
Suggests random responding
Bender-Gestalt
Neuropsych measure for visual-motor integration
Screening for neurological impairment
Benton Test
Test of visual memory retention
For the purpose of identifying brain damage
What percent of genes do full siblings, fraternal twins, and first degree relatives share
50%
Half sibs share 25%
Genetic disorders of males and females
Kleinfelter - Male with extra X
Turner - Female with one X
Ambivalent v Avoidance attachment styles
Ambivalent are clingy and avoidant (think borderline babies)
Avoidant are rejecting and unresponsive (overbearing or absent parents)
The symptoms of FAS are…
Lifelong and irreversible
In what order do infants develop depth cues
Kinetic
Binocular
Pictorial
What explains why normal children labeled “gifted” get more academic attention (and related improvements) than their peers
Rosenthal effect
If you believe something to be true, you will treat those people accordingly
What brain activity is responsible for negative symptoms of schizophrenia
Reduced activity in the PFC
How many sx needed to diagnose ADHD
Five in people over 17
Six in kids
Technique of solution focused therapists
Exception question
“When does this behavior NOT occur?”
Howard’s three phases of treatment
- Remoralization - instillation of hope
- Remediation - focus on sx
- Rehabilitation - unlearning maladaptive that caused the issue
Boundary disturbances
Part of Gestalt Therapy
When there’s a disruption between the boundary of self and the environment (can’t maintain homeostasis)
Introjection(swallowing whole concepts), projection (do to others) retroflection (do to self), confluence (guilt and resentment)
Three levels of prevention
Primary - prevent new cases (promotes health, vaccinate)
Secondary - treat preexisting cases to minimize illness (screening and early intervention)
Tertiary - prevent consequences of the issue (community-based)
Duration of brief psychotic disorder
1 month
Age groups of men and women with highest suicide rates
Men - over 75
Women - 45-64
Three stages of group cohesiveness
Yalom
Orientation
Conflict
Cohesiveness
What is regulated breathing used for
Childhood onset fluency disorder
Stuttering
Difference between Alz neurocog and LBD neurocog
LBD neurocog starts with motor sx
Alz starts with memory
What groups have highest rates of treatment service delivery
Lesbian and bisexual women
“Oblique”
Means correlated in factor analyses
Spearman coefficients
Used in rank-order correlations
When would you use a correlated samples t-test
When analyzing only two means, from one sample of participants
(Within subjects design)
Purpose of an ANCOVA
Removes the effects of an extraneous valuable (covariant) on the dependent variable
When is history a threat to internal validity
When you have a lengthier study with only one group
(You may not be sure that your tx caused the effects, could be the impact of the historical event on all your participants)
What statistical procedure will get you the fewest number of predictors for a given outcome
Stepwise multiple regression
The career decision making model is founded in what clinical theory
Erikson and ego identity
Three components of expectancy theory
VIE
Valence
Instrumentality
Expectancy
(Related to employee motivation)
Two factor theory of employee motivation
Lower level motivators - pay, materials
(Leads to dissatisfaction if not met, doesn’t increase motivation)
Higher level motivations - autonomy, responsivity, advancement
(Don’t lead to dissatisfaction if not met, leads to motivation)
Two NEO traits associated with good leadership
Extraversion
Conscientiousness
Leader-Member Exchange Theory
Views subordinates as in group or out group based on a number of factors
Purpose of a behavioral interview
I/O
To see how employees have responded to work situations in the past
Two types of integrity tests for employee selection decisions
Overt and personality
Hemineglect results form damage to what part of the brain
Parietal
Usually right parietal
James Lange Theory
Perception
Behaviors and physiological reaction > emotion
“I’m afraid because my heart is pounding and I’m sweating”
Cannon-Bard Theory
The PNS and cortex are stimulated
Then we feel emotions and bodily reactions
(Bodily experiences are relatively the same for all reactions)
Two-Factor Theory of Emotion
Schachter & Singer
Physiological arousal + cognitive interpretation
= subjective emotional experience
(Epinephrine study)
The right hemisphere processes what kind of emotions
Negative emotions
So damage leads to euphoria and indifference)
The left hemisphere process what kinds of emotions
Positive emotions
Do damage leads to depression and emotional volatility (catastrophic reactions)
What NT is inhibitory and related to anxiety
GABA
When do we see advanced sleep phases
In older adults
When going to sleep and getting up occur earlier than what is typical
What depth perception cues do we use up close and farthest away
Up close = retinal disparity
Far away = motion parallax
Job of an antagonist drug
To block receptor cites OR inhibit the effect of a given NT
Floor and ceiling effects are…
The degree to which a test can DISCRIMINATE among those with very low, and those with very high levels of the thing measured by the test
What two things modify the relationship between message discrepancy and attitude change
Credibility
Source of the message
Number of bystanders to ensure most likely to get help
One
What route to persuasion leads to strong behavioral change
Central route
What does a minority have to do to persuade majority opinion
Focus on behavioral style
Be persistent with the message without being dogmatic and too extreme
Your ability to have your attitudes change your behavior depends on…
Strength
Accessibility
Specificity
Realistic Conflict Theory
One theory of discrimination
Occurs when groups must fight or compete for resources
(Robbers Cave)
Taylor Russel tables require what three pieces of data
(Used to est percentage of new hires that will be successful)
Validity coefficients
Base rates
Selection ratios
Hawthorne Effect
Improvement in job performance as a result of participation in a study
Contingency Theory
Leadership
Leadership effectiveness is the result of leadership style and favorableness of the situation
Low LPC - task oriented, does well in low or highly favorable situations
High LPC - relationship focused, does will in moderately favorable
Purpose of the Position Analysis Questionnaire
To conduct worker-oriented job analyses
Benefits of relative measures of performance
Reduce bias
What kind of validity is most important for selection tests
Concurrent validity
KR-20
Measures internal consistency of a measure when items are scored dichotomously
How are reliability coefficients interpreted
Directly as percent variability
0.80 = 80% variability
Equation for SEM
SD x Sqrt(1 - reliability coefficient)
When the reliability coefficient is 1.0…
Standard deviation is 10
SEM 0-10
When do you use multitrait-multimethod matrices
When evaluating construct validity
The criterion coefficient can be no greater than…
Sqrt (1 - reliability coefficient)
Ranges of Item Difficulty
0 (no one got the item right) - 1 (everyone got the item right)
Shrinkage
When the validity coefficient decreases during cross-validation of a measure
When do African American prefer a white therapist
When they’re in the conformity state of identity development
Somatic Sx Disorder v Conversion Disorder
Somatic symptoms are bodily sx
Conversion disorder are neurological sx without basis
BD I v BD II
Bipolar 1 requires mania
Bipolar 2 requires an episode of MDD
Requirements for Tourette’s
Dx before age 18
2 motor tics and 1 vocal tic
What is the purpose of gift giving with Asian clients
To instill hope and provide reassurance
Immediate support
Impact of psychotherapy on medical care
Provision of psychotherapy to patients lowers expenditures on medical care
Reaction formation
(Defense mechanism)
When you behave opposite of what you believe/feel
Positioning
Therapy technique when exaggerate the clients concerns to emphasize how ridiculous or irrational they are
Schizoid PD v Avoidant PD
Schizoid has no desire or interest in social relationships
Avoidant reportedly wants relationships but avoids the due to fear of shame or rejection
Parataxic distortion
Transference for interpersonal therapists
Coefficient of determination
Correlation coefficient squared
Measure of shared variability
When would you use a single sample chi square test
Single variable being measured
Nominal variable
Type one error vs type two error
T1E - incorrectly rejecting the null
(Saying something is statistically significant when it’s not)
T2E - incorrectly keeping the null
(Saying there is no difference when there actually is)
SEM increases as…
SD increases
Sample size decreases
T-test v ANOVA
T test for one or two groups, with one IV
ANOVA for two or more groups with one IV
Factorial ANOVA
When you have two or more IVs
Split Plot ANOVA
When you have multiple IVs, two of which are related
Correlation coefficients
- Pearson R v Spearman Rho v Point Biserial
Pearson’s R: both variables are continuous (interval or ratio)
Spearman’s Rho: both variables are ordinal
Point Biserial: one variable is dichotomous, one is continuous (interval or ratio)
Concordance rates for schizophrenia between monozygotic v dizygotic twins v non-twin siblings
48% monozygotic
17% dizygotic
9% nontwin
Inability to realize you have an illness
Anosognosia
Criteria for schizophrenia
Two active phases symptoms for at least one month (delu, halu, disorganized speech)
Continuous signs for at least six months (avolition, anhedonia, odd behaviors)
Peter Lewinsohn’s theory of depression is based on…
Operant conditioning
Subthreshold sx of mania and depression must be present for how long to dx cyclothymia
Two years
1ys for children
How long do you need sx for to diagnose bulimia
Three months
Hypnagogic hallucinations occur when
Just before falling sleep
Narcolepsy
Hypnopompic hallucinations occur when
Just after awakening from sleep
Narcolepsy
When does sleepwalking or sleep terrors occur
Stage 3 or 4
First third of the sleep period
Nonpharmacological treatment of choice for insomnia
CBT
- stimulus control
- sleep restriction
- sleep-hygiene edu
- relaxation
- cognitive tax
Age to dx pedophilic disorder
16
Age cutoff for IED
Six years old
Three categories of ODD sx
Argumentative/defiant
Vindictiveness
Angry/irritable mood
Dx if conduct disorder (time stamps)
At least three sx in last 12mo
At least one sx in last 6mo
ODD v CD
Emotional dysregulation
An amnestic-confabulatory type alcohol-induced major neurocognitive disorder is linked to a
Thiamine deficiency
Sx opioid withdrawal
Nausea or vomiting
Diarrhea
Fever
(Flu-like symptoms)
Sx of etoh withdrawal
Autonomic hyperactivity
Hand tremor
Hallucinations
Anxiety
Four categories of substance use sx
Impaired control
Social impairment
Risky use
Pharmacological (tolerance and withdrawal)
What is required for a diagnosis of delirium
Impaired attention and awareness
Alzheimer’s NCD vs depression
Alzheimer’s NCD is related to gradual onset, and minimization of new (memory) deficits
Cognitive and motor symptoms in NCD Parkinson’s NCD Lewy Bodies NCD Alzheimer’s NCD Prion
NCD Parkinson’s starts with motor sx, then cognitive sx
NCD Lewy Bodies starts with cog sx, then motor sx
NCD Alzheimer’s starts with early memory loss (low Ach)
NCD Prion has a rapid progression of impairment in motor and cerebellar sx
Schizoid PD v Schizotypal PD
Schizoid - no desire to form relationships
Schizotypal - avoid interaction due to a fear of people (unusual thinking)