Study Guide Material Flashcards

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MMPI Scales

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Healthy Depressed Hot People Generally Push People Slowly, Highly, Softly:

  1. Hypochondriasis
  2. Depression
  3. Hysteria
  4. Psychopathic Deviate
  5. Gender
  6. Paranoia
  7. Psychasthenia
  8. Schizophrenia
  9. Hypomania
  10. Social Introversion
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MMPI L, F, K

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L = Lie (high fake good)
F = infrequent responding (high fake bad, cry for help)
K = corrective (coping resources - low/high defensive)
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Biofeedback (EMG)

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health of muscle and nerves matching them - good for muscle injury, pain

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Biofeedback (Galvanic Skin Response)

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electrodermal activity
measures electrical conductivity of skin
good for anxiety

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Biofeedback (EEG)

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modify brainwave activity

good for anxiety, stress, ADHD

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Biofeedback (Respiration Feedback)

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breathing activity

good for anxiety, asthma, hyperventilation

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Biofeedback (Finger Pulse)

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blood pressure and heart rate, good for anxiety, HTN, cardiac conditions

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Biofeedback (Thermal Feedback)

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measures skin temp

good for migraines, train to vasodilate

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Hypnosis

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  1. Absorption (engrossed)
  2. Dissociation (altered consciousness)
  3. Suggestibility (decreased inhibition)
    Used for:
    Dissociative D/O,
    Conversion D/O,
    PTSD, Phobias, GAD;
    NOT used for:
    Psychotics,
    Paranoids,
    OCD
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Alcohol

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sedation/anesthesia

Withdrawal - agitation, nausea, seizures, hallucinations

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Cocaine Withdrawal

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low mood, fatigue/insomnia, increased appetite, vivid dreams, psychomotor changes

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Marijuana

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no long term effects, physical dependence, or withdrawal symptoms

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Job Analysis

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  1. Develop/validate selection instruments
  2. ID measures of job performance
  3. Assist in developing training programs
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Work Samples

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less adverse impact

motor more valid

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Interviews

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less valid
unfavorable info carries more weight,
decisions made early in interviews,
judge on superficial traits,
past-oriented and structured with job analyses more effective
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Personnel Selection Types

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Multiple Regression - compensatory (additive)
Multiple Cutoff - min on each measure (conjunctive)
Multiple Hurdle - pass before next level

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Holland’s Personality Typologies

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RIASEC

  1. Realistic - manipulation of machinery
  2. Investigative - analytical, curious
  3. Artistic - expressive, non-conforming
  4. Social - work w/ others
  5. Enterprising - manipulation to obtain goals/money
  6. Conventional - data, filing, etc.

satisfaction, longevity, and productivity increase with personality-environment fit

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ROE’s Fields and Levels Theory

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Experiences with parents leads to occupational choice and success;
3 parenting orientations (overprotective, avoidant, acceptant);
8 job fields; 6 job levels

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Super’s Life Career Development Theory

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self-concept related to career choice, stage model, Rainbow - 9 roles adapted during stages

5 Stages:
Growth
Exploration
Establishment
Maintenance
Decline 

Career Maturity - mastering stage tasks

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Tiedman and O’Hare’s Decision-Making Model

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Based on Erikson’s Identity Stages

Differentiation and Integration - making distinctions about self and environment and unifying these aspects

realizing job doesn’t fit with personality

Personal Reality (right for self) vs. Common Reality (society/others think is right for you)

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Theory Z

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combo of Theory A (USA) and Theory J (Japan)

J with individual responsibility and moderately specialized career path

Japanese have longer employment duration, slow promotion, consensual decision-making, collective responsibility, holistic knowledge

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Leadership Styles (Lewin, Lipitt, White)

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Autocratic - increased productivity, especially with routine work; high when leader is present, low when absent; Groups (aggressive, dependent, self-oriented)

Democratic - increased satisfaction and creativity ; good productivity not effected by presence of leader; most liked; groups (friendly, group centered task oriented)

Laissez-faire - low productivity, increases when absent

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Theory X

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Old way, poor view of workers

X out personal concerns, cross/stern unfeeling taskmasters

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Theory Y

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workers are ambitious and require freedom and autonomy

encourage Y questions

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Fiedler’s Contingency

High LPC

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Relationship Oriented

moderately favorable

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Fiedler’s Contingency

Low LPC

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Task Oriented

low or highly favorable

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Hersey and Blanchard Styles

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Responsibility
           Low               High
A        
B         Telling          Selling
I       
L
I     Participating  
T                       Delegating
Y

Telling - high task, low relationship
Selling - high task and relationship
Participating - low task and high relationship
Delegating - low task, and relationship

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Organizational Change -

Empirical-Rational

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people are rational; if given all info they will act in accordance with self-interest

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Organizational Change -

Normative-Re-educative

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social norms underlie group behavior; change attitudes to bring acceptance of change

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Organizational Change -

Power-Coercive

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uses rewards and punishment to coerce

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Driver’s Decision Making Styles

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Satisficers/Maximizers - amount of info needed to make decision

Unifocus/Multifocus - focus/goal/outcome

  1. Decisive - S/U - inflexible, short-sighted
  2. Flexible - S/M - fast but willing to change, little structure
  3. Hierarchic - M/U - thorough, rigid, over-controlling
  4. Integrative - M/M - value creativity, best with groups
  5. Systemic - 3/4 combo

Decisive and Flexible - simple and quick response

Others - long-term and costly decisions

understand your style, work with people with different styles, match job to your style

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Maslow

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Phyisological, safety, love/belong, esteem, self-actualization

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Goal-Setting Theory

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Max - specific, moderate difficulty, frequent feedback

Management by objective - employee and supervisor agree to specific, measurable goals

  • positive impact on performance
  • incentives do not help
  • group goals may be more valuable
  • no gender differences
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Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory

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Satisfaction vs. Dissatisfaction

Hygiene - Dissatisfiers, job factors (pay, benefits, setting, relationships with coworkers) - absence = dissatisfied; presence not satisfied

Motivator - satisfiers, job enrichment (responsiveness, growth, decision making, more responsibility) [satisfaction and productivity] and job enlargement (more/different work w/out responsibility) [satisfaction only] - presence = satisfaction; absence not dissatisfied

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Work Schedules

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Compressed work week (no change in productivity; physical work suffers; lower absenteeism; increased job satisfaction; women like it less)

Flextime (higher satisfaction and attitude; lower absenteeism and tardiness; unclear effect on productivity)

Shift work (rotating worse than night, lower productivity, higher accidents, more health problems, young adapt better)

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Hindbrain

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Cerebellum - balance, coordination, posture (ataxia)

Brainstem
- pons (myelencephalon, raphe nuclei) - regulates state of arousal, triggers and maintains slow wave sleep

  • medulla oblongata (metencephalon) - breathing, heart rate, BP, digestion (damage fatal)
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Midbrain

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Mesencephalon:
- substantia nigra - extrapyramidal motor system, modulates smoothness, initiation, and termination of movement

  • reticular formation -
    sleep, arousal, pain,
    touch, reflexes (reticular activating system - maintaining waking state and attention)
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Forebrain

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Diencephalon:

  • hypothalamus - homeostasis (5 F’s)
  • thalamus - central sensory relay (not smell)

Telencephalon:
- cerebral cortex - 4 lobes
- basal ganglia - voluntary movement
- limbic system -mediates emotional component of bx (amygdala - attaching emotional meaning, aggression, damages causes lack of response;
septum - inhibits emotion
hippocampus - memory consolidation, anterograde amnesia)

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Acetylcholine (Ach)

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movement and memory

too much - paralysis
too little - memory (Alzheimer’s Disease and Huntington’s Disease)

mediates sexual bx and REM sleep

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Catecholamines

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Cats Not Dogs
Norepinephrine
Epinephrine
Dopamine

personality, mood, drive states

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Norepinephrine

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mood, pain, sleep
Low = Depression
High = Schizophrenia, and Axiety

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Catecholamine Hypothesis

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Low = Depression
High = Mania
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Dopamine

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Low = Parkinson’s Disease (substantia nigra in the basal ganglia) - L-Dopa treats movement symptoms

High = Schizophrenia, Mania

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Serotonin

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mood, aggression, sex, sleep onset, pain, schizophrenia

Low = Depression (permissive hypothesis - low levels permit mood dx, but norepinepherine determines mania or depression)

Anxiety, aggression, sleep, pain, obesity

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GABA

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most common
inhibitory
low = Anxiety, epileptic seizures, Huntington’s Disease

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Glutamate

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Excitatory

Memory, long term potentiation, and brain damage from stroke

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Pituitary Gland

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  • master endocrine gland
  • affected by hypothalamus
  • growth and anti-diuretic hormones
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Hypopituitarism

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dwarfism and pubertal delay in kids, gonadal failure in adults;
hypothyroidism, diabetes, adrenocortical insufficiency

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Hyperpituitarism

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Acromegaly - after puberty

Gigantism - before puberty

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Hyperthyroidism

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excessive thyroxin
weight loss, increased appetite, heat sensitivity, sweating, diarrhea, tremor and palpitations, fatigue, agitated depression, insomnia, impaired memory and judgment, hallucinations and delusions

Grave’s Disease

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Hypothyroidism

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weight gain, sluggishness, fatigue, impaired memory and intellectual functioning, sensitivity to cold, dry skin, puffiness, sparse hair, decreased cardiac output, personality changes, paranoid delusions, delirium, mania, hallucinations

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Pancreas

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  • Insulin
  • absorbs glucose and amino acids
  • under-secretion of insulin results in diabetes
  • hypoglycemia - over secretion
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Hypoglycemia

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low blood sugar

nervousness, irritability, trembling, cold sweats, fatigue, rapid heart rate, hunger, headache, confusion

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Hyperglycemia

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high blood sugar
diabetes
increased thirst and urination, dehydration, fatigue and weakness, abdominal pain, nausea, loss of appetite

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Adrenal Cortex

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near kidneys

coritco steroids (cortisol) - makes liver convert energy to glucose (fuel); elevated by stress; peaks mid-day

influences adrenocortitropic hormone from pituitary

Addison’s Disease - low - apathy, weakness, irritability, depression, gastrointestinal disturbance

Cushing’s Disease - high - agitated depression, irritability and emotional lability, memory and concentration, suicide, adiposity (swelling and fattening) of face, neck, and trunk

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Frontal Lobe Injury

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paralysis, sequencing, problem solving, mood lability, language expression (Broca’s), depressive and psychopathic syndrome

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Parietal Lobe Injury

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anomia, agraphia, alexia, apraxia, eye/hand coordination, left right confusion
(processes touch, pressure, pain, temperature)

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Occipital Lobe Injury

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word blindness, illusions, movement and color agnosias, reading and writing problems

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Temporal Lobe Injury

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language comprehension (Wernicke's), prosopagnosia, IDing objects, STM loss, LTM problems, selective attention
temporal lobe epilepsy - intense emotions, religious interests, socially clingy
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Brainstem Injury

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sleep, balance, and breathing/respiratory problems

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Cerebellum Injury

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fine movement coordination, slurred speech, inability to walk, rapid movement problems

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Right Lobe Damage

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apathy, indifference, short-lived emotional responses,

quick and impulsive (left takes control)

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Left Lobe Damage

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worse than right, depression, anxiety

slow and cautious (right takes control)

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Tonic Clonic Seizure

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Generalized
Tonic - stiff contraction
Clonic - shaking of limbs
grand mal
- dramatic, convulsions throughout body, loss of consciousness; headache, confusion, fatigue, amnesia for seizure after
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Absence Seizure

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Generalized
Thalamus
Petit mal
- more common in kids before age 5
- 1 - 30 secs
- brief changee in consciousness, blinking or rolling of eyes, blank stare, slight mouth movements
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Simple Partial Seizures

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focal area up to half the body
remains conscious
describes it in detail later

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Jacksonian Seizures

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start localized motor with spread to adjacent brain areas

Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

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Complex Partial Seizures

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preceded by an aura, purposeless bx, lip smacking, unintelligible speech, impaired consciousness

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Sleep Stages

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BAT DR
Beta - active awareness
Alpha - drowsy
(1) -brief transitional stage
Theta (2) - Spindles, K complexes - longest times in sleep
Delta (3-4) - deep sleep
REM - vivid dreams, no muscle tone, EEG aroused but responsivity is low (100 min 4-6x/night)

REM Deprivation - anxiety, irritability, lower cog functioning; REM rebound

Insomnia - low delta sleep
Nightmare - REM
Sleep Terror and Sleepwalking - Delta (3/4)

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Brain Imaging Techniques

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Structural vs. Functional

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Structural Imaging

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CT scans - xrays, tumors, clots, tissues damage, structural abnormalities
MRI - more percise

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Functional Imaging

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PET - brain dysfunction due to stroke, epilepsy, tumor, dementia, distribution of nerotransmitters
SPECT
fMRI

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Threats to Internal Validity

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History (random selection/assignment),
Maturation (matching, randomization),
Testing (control group),
Instrumentation (control group, alternative form reliability),
Statistical Regression (Omit extreme scores),
Selection (Random assignment/selection), Mortality (matching and omission),
Experimenter Bias (double blind)

Control:
Blocking, ANCOVA

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Threats to External Valitidy

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Selection (Random selection),
History,
Testing (matching, naturalistic observation),
Demand characteristics (blind, control),
Hawthorne Effect (control),
Order Effects (couterbalance, treatment order, multiple groups)

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MultiTrait/MultiMethod Matrix

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Reliability = High MM
Convergent Validity = High MH
Discriminant Validity = HH lower than HM

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Prototypical Leaders

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best match the qualities of the group at any given time.

Most productive in cohesive groups; less productive but still productive in low cohesive groups

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Baumrind Parenting Styles

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Responsivity (Warmth) and Demandingness (Control)

  1. Authoritarian - High Control; Low Warmth
    - irritable, aggressive, dependent, low sense of responsibility, low self-esteem, low academics
  2. Authoritative - Balance of both (high both)
    - assertive, self-confident, socially responsible, good grades
  3. Permissive - Low Control; High Warmth
    - impulsive, self-centered, easily frustrated, low achievement and low independence
  4. Rejecting-Neglecting - Low on both (hostile)
    - low self-esteem, impulsive, mood, aggressive; juvenile delinquents

lack of supervision and inconsistent (or harsh) punishment are highly correlated with delinquency and antisocial friends

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Kohlberg Gender Role Development

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Gender Role IS Cool

Role (from birth)

Identity - 2-3 (male/female)

Stability - same over time

Consistency - 6-7 same b/w contexts

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Suicide Risk

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SOARS
1 Serious Previous Attempt
2 Older than 45
3 Alcohol
4 Rage History
5 Sex (male)
SAD PERSONS
1 Sex (male)
2 Age (young, elderly)
3 Depression
4 Previous attempts
5 Ethanol and other drugs
6 Reality testing/Rational though (loss)
7 Social support (lack)
8 Organized suicide plan
9 No spouse Sickness/
10 Stated future intent
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Precentrual Gyrus

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Primary Motor Cortex

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Postcentral Gyrus

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Primary Somatosensory Cortex

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Alzheimer’s Stage 1

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1-3 years

Anterograde Amnesia, visuospatial skills (wandering), indifference, irritability, sadness

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Alzheimer’s Stage 2

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2-10 years
retrograde amnesia, flat or labile moods, restlessness and agitation, delusions, ideomotor apraxia (can’t translate ideas into movement)

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Alzheimer’s Stage 3

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8-12 years

severely deteriorated intellectual functioning, limb rigidity, incontinence

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Causes of Dementia

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Vitamin deficiency (B12, folate, thiamine)
Anoxia
Diabetes
Infection (HIV)
Hydrocephalus
Hypothyroid (endocrine issues)
86
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Aphasia

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Language Production

Dysarthia - articulation problems due to lesion

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Apraxia

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Motor Movement

Ideomotor - can’t carry out commands
Constructional - can’t draw simple figures or follow block patterns

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Agnosia

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Sensory Processing (can’t recognize familiar objects)
Visual - sight recognition
Aperceptive - visual distortions prevent recognition
Associative - disconnect b/w visual and language areas
Prosopagnosia - faces

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Alexia

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Reading from lesion (word blindness)

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Agraphia

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Writing

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Anomia

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Naming

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Agrammatism

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Omission of Words

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Anarthria

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Speech Production

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TCA’s

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vegetative symptoms, panic, agoraphobia, OCD
2-6wks to work

Adverse Effects:
cardiovascular symptoms, seizures, nausea, anticholonergic effects; OD - cardiac arrhythmia, sudden death

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SSRI’s

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Depression, OCD, Eating Disorders

Adverse Effects:
Gastrointestinal disturbances, insomnia, anxiety, headaches, dizziness, anorexia, tremor, frequent urination, sexual dysfunction

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MAOI’s

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atypical depression
diet restrictions

Adverse Effects:
Anticholonergic effects, insomnia, agitation, confusion, skin rash, weight gain, edema, headache, dizziness, tremor, blood dyscrasia, hypertensive crisis

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Episodic Headaches

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once in a while, 30 mins to an hour

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Chronic Headaches

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most days out of the month and last days at a time

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Tension Headaches

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dull ache all over head, not throbbing, tender or sensitive neck forehead, scalp, or shoulder muscles

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Cluster Headaches

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severe burning and piercing pain around or behind one eye or on one side of face at a time;

swelling, redness, flushing, sweating, nasal congestion, and eye tearing on one side can occur;

15 mins - 3 hrs with 1-4 a day around the same times, can be daily for months at a time;

more common in spring and fall and in men

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Migraines

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Classic (aura) and Common (no aura)

2-72 hrs. pulsating, half of head but can be bilateral

nausea, vomiting, light sound and smell sensitivity, physical activity makes worse

more boys than girls and women then men

102
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Hospitalization

A
Males
25-44
M - 18-24
F - 45-64
never married
minority
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Traits of Leaders

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moderated by characteristics of supervisees, task, and nature of work

intelligence, drive, creativity, stress-tolerance, confidence, integrity

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House’s Path-Goal Theory of Leadership

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satisfaction and motivation maxed when believe leader is helping

  1. ID way to reach goals
  2. Remove obstacles
  3. Reward when met

4 Styles:

  1. Instrumental (Directive) - specific guidelines, clear rules and procedures
  2. Supportive - supportive relationships
  3. Participative - include worker in decision making
  4. Achievement-Oriented - set challenging goals and encourage higher levels of performance

Best style depends on situation

105
Q

Vroom and Yetton’s Normative Model of Leadership

A

5 styles based on decision making process;
Uses a decision making tree;

  1. AI (Autocratic) - no consultation, make own decisions
  2. AII (Autocratic) - inform others but make own decisions
  3. CI (Consultive) - discuss individually then decide
  4. CII (Consultive) - discuss with groups then decide
  5. GII (Group) discuss and decide with consensus
106
Q

Organizational Development Stages

A
  1. Entry - ID need
  2. Contracting - specify terms
  3. Diagnosis - assess problem, collect data
  4. Feedback - share data w/ org.
  5. Planning - develop action plan
  6. Intervention - enact plan
  7. Evaluation - assess progress
107
Q

Quality of Work Life Intervention (QWL)

A

org. effectiveness improves satisfaction and motivation

job restructure or redesign to make more challenging and provide greater participation in decision-making

Quality Circles - discuss improvement (no penalty for suggestions, support from management)

108
Q

Process Consultation

A

target communication, decision-making, and conflict resolution

109
Q

Gender and IO

A

less attractive women and more attractive men judged as more suitable

women - interpersonal and task accomplishment styles; participatory decision making; men use autocratic or directive decision making

rate female managers less favorably (esp. when using male styles) when they are majority, more favorable

110
Q

Alderfer’s ERG Theory

A

3 needs, no hierarchy
Existence
Relatedness
Growth

111
Q

McClelland’s Need for Achievement

A

Achievement is primary motivator

high - autonomy, mod difficult goals, seek recognition, put in effort, job longevity;
related to entrepreneurial success;
can build through training

Power - more effective managers, want control, status, recognition

Affiliation - interpersonal relationships, sensitive to criticism, avoid conflict

112
Q

Job Characteristics Model

A
More meaningful when:
Skill Variety - more skills
Task Identity - whole tasks
Task Significance - important 
Autonomy - make decisions
Feedback - build-in

motivation and satisfaction improve, no effect on quality;
good with need for personal growth

113
Q

Expectancy Theory

A

VIE
Valence - rewards are desirable

Instrumentality - successful performance will result in reward

Expectancy - effort will lead to successful performance

114
Q

Engineering Psychology

A

change job to fit employee

115
Q

Sex Hormones

A

gonads - primary source
adrenal glands - small amounts

hypothalamus signals pituitary to release hormones which cause the gonads to produce androgens and estrogen

Estrogen - sexual development and reproduction

Progesterone - health reproductive system functioning and placenta

Menopause - drop in all 3; E - menopausal symptoms and osteoporosis; hormone replacement therapy increases risk of breast cancer

spinal cord injury - erection no ejaculation

116
Q

Endocrine System

A

Hormone secreting glands that act on organs and influence other secretions

Pituitary Gland
Adrenal Cortex
Gonads
Thyroid Gland
Pancreas
117
Q

Thyroid Gland

A
  • thyroxin
  • controls metabolism
  • cretinism or hypothyroidism
118
Q

Vision

A

Rods - motion, light and dark, sensitive to brightness; good in low light; dispersed and at periphery of retina

Cones - color, fine detail, daylight, center of retina

119
Q

Audition (Hearing)

A
  • audible frequency (20-20,000 cycles/sec)
  • amplitude = loudness (120 decibels = pain)
  • timbre = complexity of waves

auditory localization - present at birth, declines 1-4m, fully developed at 1yr

120
Q

Smell and Taste

A

smell goes through limbic system - primitive

feeding, sex, aggression in animals

taste most intense during infancy

121
Q

Psychophysics

A

Absolute Threshold - can be felt

Difference Threshold - just noticeable difference

based on equal psychological differences not physiological

122
Q

Brain Tumors

A

kids - brain stem or cerebellum
adults - cerebral cortex

1st signs - depression, anxiety, psych problems
Symptoms - dull headaches, seizures, nausea, vision/hearing changes, neurological issues

123
Q

Stroke

A

sudden severe blood flow to brain

hemiplegia, sensory loss, dementia, gate disturbance, incontinence

50% die soon after, 10% recover fully
most improvement 1st 6m

physical symptoms improve quicker than cognitive symptoms

124
Q

Head Trauma

A

open - no LOC, local and quick recovery

closed - widespread damage, LOC, amnesia, 6-9m recovery, personality and motor issues may persist, duration of anterograde amnesia is best predictor of recovery

125
Q

Antipsychotics

A

neuroleptics/traditional/typical:

  • positive symptoms
  • tardive dyskinesia

Atypical or Novel:
pos and neg symptoms
- Clozaril - no extrapyramidal or tardive dyskinesia, but agranulocytosis

side effects based on potency:
high - extrapyramidal (akathisa - most prevalent and causes discontinued use - internal agitation)
low - anticholinergic, sedation, hypotension (dizzy when standing), seizure

all - weight gain, increased appetite, decreased activity, sexual dysfunction,

126
Q

Sedatives, Hypnotics, Anxiolytics

A

Benzos: GAD, panic, insomnia, alcohol withdrawal, epilepsy

  • drowsy, sedate, weight gain, apathy, dry mouth, GI, paradoxical excitation, motor issues, sexual dysfunction, anterograde amnesia with IV use
  • addictive and fatal if mixed with alcohol or CNS depressants

Barbiturates: not used, addictive and abused, drug of choice for suicide, interrupts RAS impulses

Beta-Blockers: hypertension and migraines, performance anxiety
- bradycardia, hypotension, sexual dysfunction, fatigue, parasthesia, memory impairment

127
Q

Psychostimulants

A

mimic cats in the brain
ADHD and Narcolepsy
- decreased appetite, insomnia, stomach aches, dysphoria, OCD symptoms, growth suppression, exacerbate tics

128
Q

Narcotic-Analgesics

A
natural opioids (opium, morphine, codeine)
derivatives (heroin, percodan, demeral, methadone)
- pupil constriction, lower visual acuity, perspiration, GI, respiratory depression
addictive
129
Q

Drug Admin Routes

A

1) Inhaling (smoking)—7-10 seconds: lungs→heart→brain
2) Intravenous injection (via needle into vein)—15-30 seconds: bloodstream→heart→lungs→heart→ rain
3) Intramuscular injection (via needle into muscle); subcutaneous injection (via needle under skin)—3-5 minutes: absorbed into bloodstream→heart→lungs→heart→ brain

mucosal absorption: a) insufflation, snorting into nose ; b) buccal, placing next to gums; or c) sublingual, placing under tongue—3-5 minutes: absorbed through mucous membranes into bloodstream→heart→lungs→heart→brain

4) Mucosal absorption, rectal or vaginal—10-15 minutes
5) Ingesting, oral administration—20-30 minutes: stomach→small intestine→liver→heart→lungs→heart→brain
6) Transdermal, skin patch—1-2 days…slow sustained delivery of drug, rather than fast delivery of large amount

130
Q

Medial Forebrain Bundle

A

Pleasure/Reward Pathway

Mesolimbic Dopamine Pathway

motivation and reinforcement; links bx and experience with emotions - leads to learning and strong memories for bx (increased glutamate)

increase drug and decrease natural/instinctual drives

glutamate system impacts prefrontal cortex’s ability to accurately analyze risks and make decisions

131
Q

Endogenous

A

created inside the body

132
Q

Exogenous

A

taken in from outside the body

133
Q

Occipital Scotoma

A

holes in the visual field due to lesions in Occipital Lobe

134
Q

Superior Colliculus Vision

A

Blind Sight - vision reflex that allows people to process visual information and respond to it without being able to “see”

135
Q

Visual Ventral Pathway

A

lower pathway goes to Temporal Lobe - what system

form and color processing

136
Q

Visual Dorsal Pathway

A

upper pathway goes to Parietal Lobe - where/how system

object location and motion processing

137
Q

Color wave lengths

A

BiG Red

Blue - Green - Red

138
Q

Achromatopsia

A

color blindness, hypersensitivity to light, poor visual acuity

139
Q

Monocular Depth

A

seeing depth based on cues - pictorial, aerial perspective, texture gradients, interposition, shading, size, blur

140
Q

Binocular Vision

A

uses both eyes and how the image hits your eyes

Accommodation - adjust shape of lens (wide vs. tight)

Convergence - angle of your eyes

141
Q

Geons

A

elements that make of standard geometric shapes that are added together to perceive complex figures

142
Q

Visual Apperceptive Agnosia

A

cannot perceive the object correct and therefore recognition is impacted

can’t name by sight but can by touch

143
Q

Visual Associative Agnosia

A

perception is intact, but recognition is damaged

recognizes familiar object but unable to name it

144
Q

Endogenous Spatial Attention

A

voluntarily directing visual attention to a spatial location

top-down/active attention

145
Q

Exogenous Spatial Attention

A

involuntarily directing visual attention to a spatial location
(bottom-up/passive attention)

146
Q

Cross-Modal Attention

A

stimulation in one sense modality serves to direct attention in another modality

hear a noise - look in that directions

147
Q

Change Blindness

A

failure to detect that an object has moved, changed, or disappeared

148
Q

Inattention Blindness

A

failure to notice an unexpected object in a visual display

149
Q

Hemi-Spatial Neglect

A

failure to attend to one half of an object or visual space (left neglected)

right parietal lesions only; left lesions do not cause right neglect

150
Q

Simultanagnosia

A

inability to attend to more than one object at a time

bilateral parietal-occipital damage

151
Q

Optic Ataxia

A

normal visual perception and arm/hand movements

but impaired at visually- guided reaching to touch or grab

152
Q

Rehearsal

A

Maintenance - simple repetition

Elaborative - semantic processing, linking material to other material in memory (deeper analysis are better than shallow analyses) - better than mnemonics

153
Q

Encoding Specificity Principle

A

retrieval is best when there is a match b/w presentation of info at encoding and retrieval

basis for mood/state/context dependent memory

154
Q

Forgetting

A

autobiographical memories - slower decay

older will decay more slowly than newer ones of similar strength

slower decay for implicit than explicit memory

155
Q

Nonassociative Learning

A

Part of Implicit Memory

Desensitization and Habituation

156
Q

Preserved Cognition in Amnestic Disorders

A
  1. Basic Attention (digit span)
  2. Intelligence/Cognitive Ability
  3. Implicit Memory
157
Q

Associative Learning

A

part of Implicit Memory

classical and operant conditioning

amygdala and cerebellum

158
Q

Perceptual/Repetition Priming

A

seen or heard the stimulus before

159
Q

Conceptual/Semantic Priming

A

semantically similar priming

Fork — Spoon

160
Q

Measures of Implicit Memory

A

demonstration of procedural tasks

priming tasks - related to conditioning and discriminative variables

161
Q

Perceptual-Functional Theory of Memory

A

Living things categorized by perception (temporal lobe)

Non-living things categorized by function (frontal-parietal regions)

more perceptual then functional descriptors

brain damage leads to more difficulty with living objects

162
Q

Coherence and Correspondence with autobiographical memory

A

coherence - consistent with current goals and beliefs

correspondence - accuracy of memory

coherence wins out over time

163
Q

Levels of Language Processes

A

Phonological - sounds
Morphological - word forms
Syntactic - grammatical structure
Semantic - meaning

Perception, comprehension, production

164
Q

Problems faced by Listeners

A

Rate - 10 phonemes/sec average (50-60 upper range)

segmentation - trouble separating out or distinguishing words from the pattern of speech sounds

Co-articulation - separating overlapping adjacent articulations

degraded speech - environmental noise

165
Q

Language Comprehension

A

Parsing - analysis of syntactical/grammatical structure

semantics - literal meaning

pragmatics - intended meaning

166
Q

Anomia

A

word-finding problems

167
Q

Agrammatism

A

speech production lacks grammatical structure and many function words and word endings are omitted

168
Q

Jargon Aphasia

A

speech is reasonably correct grammatically but with great problems finding the right words to say, with many neologisms produced