Test 4 Flashcards
What technique controls the effect of common method bias?
Multitrait-multi method
Temperament at age 3 is:
Predictive of outcomes at age 21 for a significant number of children
Comparison of clinical and functional rates in schizophrenic patients worldwide indicates-
Pt in developing countries demonstrate greater levels of clinical improvement
Pt in affluent countries show greater improvement in social/ functional improvement
Pt in developing countries demonstrate greater levels of clinical improvement
Pt in affluent countries show greater improvement in social/ functional improvement
Differences in leadership styles btw men and women
Not significant
Barnum / Forer effect
Tendency to accept vague description of oneself as accurate - contributes to gullibility, wishful thinking, confirmation bias
Zeigarnik effect
Tendency to remember interrupted or incomplete tasks better than completed ones
Symptoms of tricyclic overdose
Ataxia, cardiac arythmia, delirium
Sx of 5-ht toxicity syndrome
Headache, tremor, confusion
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
Caused by dopamine blockage in the basal ganglia
Muscle tension, hyperthermia, stupor, mutism, tachycardia
Symptoms of lithium toxicity
Nausea and vomiting, loss of coordination, seizure
Problems in phonological processing have been linked to:
Learning disorders
Emotion-in-relationship model
It may become more difficult to elicit positive emotions from ones partner later in relationships because it is more difficult to do something pleasant and unexpected
Survivor syndrome
Characteristics exhibited by individuals who remain on the job during downsizing. Influenced by perceived unfairness and inequity in the layoff procedure.
Monetary incentive impact on goal achievement
Positive regardless of circumstances, especially when tied specifically to achievement
Papez’s circuit
Major pathway of limbic system - hippocampus, mammillary bodies, cingulate gyrus, anterior nuclei of the thalamus
Piaget’s circular reactions
Primary - 1-4mo - simple motor habits involving baby’s own body
Secondary - 4-8mo - involve other ppl or objects
Tertiary - 12-18mo - involves action on external object
Ponzo effect
How our eyes judge distance (moon on the horizon)
Match family therapist to theoretical approach - Ackerman Whitaker Stuart Liberman
Analytic
Humanistic
Behavioral
Behavioral
Neuropathic pain can be treated with
Tricyclics
Sx of first, second, third stage of Alzheimer’s
Retrograde amnesia for recent long-term events, wandering, irritability,anomia
Anterograde and retrograde amnesia, flat or labile mood, restlessness, fluent aphasia
Incontinence, severely deteriorated intellectual functioning
F scale
L scale
K scale
Infrequency scale - high score can mean faking bad
L - lie scale - high score can me faking good or denial
High on k means fake bad
Anterior cingulate cortex
Emotional reactions to pain
Jensen study of average iq distance between families:
Same individual tested tested on two occasions a week apart
11 points
4 points
Transcortical aphasia
Unable to verbally describe what he sees or desires, deficits on language comprehension
- motor subtype - difficulties in producing speech
- sensory - difficulties with comprehension
