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Abnormal Psych.test1
chapters 123414
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| projective test? | roschach inkblot test and thematica apperception test. |
| Apperception test? who funded the test? | harvard psychological clinc 1935 |
| whta is the appercetion test? | tester makes up a story about each of the black and white images on a serios of 31 cards. |
| what is different about the apperception test? (results) | that the examiner can interpret the results in his own theoretical orientation |
| how can the TAT help? | helps patients who have difficulty discussing their emotions. |
| correlation coefficient? | indicates direction and strenght of the relationship |
| positive correlation> | increase of one variable is asociated with the increase of the other variable |
| what kind of correlation is it?: increase rates of smoking; increase rates of heart disease? | Positive correlation |
| negative correlation? | increase of one variable is associated with the decrease of another variable |
| what kind of correlation is it? | more puzzle doing, crossword puzzles, etc, decrease the risk of alzhamiers disease |
| Random assigment? | everyone has an equal chance... |
| Analogue samples | are people who have the characteristics of interest and resemble treatment-seeking populations but are not seeking lcinicar servides. |
| clinical samples | people who are seeking cervices for a specific problem. |
| screening | identify potential psychological problems or predicts the risk of future problems if someone is not referred for further assessment or treatment. |
| in a depression scale what does 16 or higher on the CES-D mean? | possibility of significant depression and suggests that further evaluation is necessary. |
| diagnosis | refers to the identification of an illness. |
| realiability | the extent to which apsychological assessment instrument produces consisten results each time it is given. |
| test-retest reiabliity | consistency of scores across time. |
| dimensional approach | refers to an approach to study personality that posits continuous trait dimensions along which people can vary, instead of qualitatively different types |
| not guilty | a legal decision that describes poeple who commit a crime but whose psychological disorder prevents them form undertstanding; 1percent! |
| homeless | 73% schizophrenia |
| Five aspirational goals related to the science and practice of psychology | beneficence and nonmalefcence; fidelity and responsibility; integrity; justice; respect for peoples rights and dignity. |
| beneficial and nonmalefience | work to benefit thier patiens and are always careful not to do anything that causes harm |
| fidelity and responsibility | seek to establish relationships of trust and are aware of their responsibilities to patients, colleagues, and society in general. |
| integrity | promote honesty and truthfulness in thier science, teaching, and practice |
| justice | promote fairness adn equiality for all persons. everyone has equal acess to psychology contributions and services |
| respect for people's rights and dignity | value the wroth of everyone and uphold rights to privacy, confidentiality adn self determintaion |
| differential diagnosis: | when they are attempt to determine which diagnosis most clearly describes the patients symptoms. |
| developmental trajectory | the idea that common symptoms of a disorder may vary depending on a persons age. |
| diathesis-stress model | the idea that psychological disorders may have a biological predisposition that lies dominta until environmental stress occurs and the combination produces abnormal behavior |
| family studies | the process of examinating wheter family members of a person with a particular disorder are more likey to have that disorder than family members of people without the disorder |
| nature Vs nurture | genetics, environment |
| specificity | indicates the percent of the itme that screener accurately identifies the absence of a problem |
| false positives | occures when the the screening instruemnt indicates aproblem when no problem exists |
| false negatives | refer to instances in which teh screeing tool suggestes that there is no depression when th epatient actually is depress |
| left hemisphere | respnsible for language and cognitive funcitons |
| right hemisphere | associated with creativity imagery and intuition |
| temporal lobe | understanding auditory and verbal information, labeling of objects and verbal memory |
| pareital lobe | sonsory information form various sources and may be involved with visouspatioal processing |
| occupital lobe | center of visual processing; locatd at teh back of teh skull |
| frontal lobe | seat of reasoning impuse control, judgment language memmory motor funciton problem solving and sexual and social behavior |
| cross-sectional design | provies a snapshop in time; reasearch design in which paticipants are assessed once for the specific variable under investigation |
| longitudinal design | study that takes place over time; reasearch design in which participants are assessed at least two times adn often more over a certain time interval |
| statistical significance | refers to the mathematical probability that after treatment changes that occurred in the treamtnet group did not occur by chance but were actually due to the treatment |
| clinical significance | examines whether significant findings have pratical or clinical valuea |
| Duty to warn | the duty of therapists to use reasonable care to protect third parties form dangers posed by patients. |
| what is the duty to warn based on? | on the belief that mental clinicians have the ability to predict human behaviour. |
| actuarial prediction | when predictions are based on psychological symptons(anger sadness) not psychological disorders(major depression, schizophrenia). |
| ethics | accepted values that provide guidance in making sound moral judgments. |
| how much percent of psychologist engaged in innapropiate relationships? | 3.5% |
| how long do psych and patient have to wait before they can start a relationship? | 2 years |
| sympathetic nervous system | controls involuntary movements |
| parasympathetic nervous system | returs the body functions to resting levels after the sns has activated them |
| SNS? | stimulates heartbeat raises blood pressure dilates the pupils diverts blodd away from the skin and inner organs to the skeletal msuchles, barin and heart. |
| hormones | chemical messenger released directly into the bloodsteram and act on targe organs. |
| neotrotransmitters | chemical substance that relays electrical signals between one neuron and the next. |
| what is the space between the neurons called? | synapse |
| CNS? | brain and spinal cord |
| whats an axon? | fiber through which a cell transports information to another cell |
| axon terminals | branched features at the end of the axon that for synapses. |
| MRI | uses radiofrequncy waves and a strong magnentic field to privide highly detalield pictures of the brain |
| cat | injected with a radioactive dye, and specialized xray equipment photographs the breain from tdifferend angles. |
| pychological test | personality test |
| MMPI | minessota mulitphasic personality invetory |
| faking good | describin oneself as more psychologically healty than one |
| faking bad | presentin oneself as more phuchollgically distress than is than is actually there |
| intelligence quotient | a score of cognitive functioning that compares a person's performance to his or her age0mateched peers |
| psychoanalitic model | life is unconsious and that personality patterns begin to form in childhoo |
| cognitive | events dont form is the way we percieve them does. |
| humanistic modl | basedon phenomenology; ones subjective perception of the world is more important than the actual world, hunanists belive that people are basically good and are motivated to self-actualize |
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