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What is cog psych’s role in abnormal psych

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identify’s differences in abnormal v. normal, does not say how impairment occurred

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What is cog psych’s role in abnormal psych

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identify’s differences in abnormal v. normal, does not say how impairment occurred

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Define schizophrenia physical symptoms v. cog symptoms (NOT CAUSES)

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Partial cause= physical: widening of vesicles in brain atrophies portions of PFC; Cog symptom: impaired executive functioning/attention

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Define RSVP

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Rapid serial visual presentation; stimuli appear in a stream in one location very quickly; used to study visual attention

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Define attentional blink

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when something captures our attention, we unintentionally focus on it (miss things that happen directly after); normally 200-500 ms (less for video game players)

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Who studied the attentional blink for phobias

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Farshid et al. (2013)

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How long is a phobia related attentional blink?

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200-800 ms

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What does a phobic attentional blink imply?

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people with phobias cannot disengage from phobia-specific info

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How many objects can people usually remember in change detection?

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4 objects

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When phobic item on screen, how many objects can phobic people remember in change detection?

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Why are phobias formed?

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classical conditioning

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What is the critical factor to maintaining a phobia?

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attention

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after 1970s, what do therapists used for anxiety disorders?

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Cognitive and behavioral therapy (CBT); attempts to treat the simple/complex associations while also addressing attention, thoughts, and emotional processing

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Define schizophrenia physical symptoms v. cog symptoms (NOT CAUSES)

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Partial cause= physical: widening of vesicles in brain atrophies portions of PFC; Cog symptom: impaired executive functioning/attention

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Define RSVP

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Rapid serial visual presentation; stimuli appear in a stream in one location very quickly; used to study visual attention

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Define attentional blink

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when something captures our attention, we unintentionally focus on it (miss things that happen directly after); normally 200-500 ms (less for video game players)

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Who studied the attentional blink for phobias

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Farshid et al. (2013)

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How long is a phobia related attentional blink?

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200-800 ms

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what does the WAIS test provide?

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insights into learning strengths/weaknesses when processing information

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How many objects can people usually remember in change detection?

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4 objects

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When phobic item on screen, how many objects can phobic people remember in change detection?

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Why are phobias formed?

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classical conditioning

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What are treatments for phobias

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flooding/systematic desensitization

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What is the critical factor to maintaining a phobia?

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attention

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after 1970s, what do therapists used for anxiety disorders?

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Cognitive and behavioral therapy (CBT); attempts to treat the simple/complex associations while also addressing attention, thoughts, and emotional processing

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define PTSD

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traumatic event causes psychopathology via: fear conditioning and subsequent generalization; distortion of beliefs related to safety, blame, etc

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what are some symptoms of PTSD?

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intrusive memories, avoidance of specific thoughts/feelings, negative alterations in cognition/mood, alterations in arousal/reactivity

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What tests are used to study PTSD?

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Emotional stroop, emotional counting stroop

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what are neurocognitive findings of ECS?

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Threat words are associated with less recruitment of neural networks known to be associated with attentional control among those with PTSD and other anxiety disorders

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What parts of the brain are associated with PTSD

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Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC); dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

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what does the WAIS test provide?

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insights into learning strengths/weaknesses when processing information

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What is the underlying principle of Comparative Cognition?

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C. Darwin’s The Decent of Man; behavior across species is on a spectrum

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What is the function of dreams

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long term memory consolidation

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Define activation synthesis

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the brain tries to make sense of random activity that occurs throughout sleep

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