In family therapy, what is Reframing, which

designed to increase the involves relabeling or

family's compliance with redefining a problem
the therapist's directives behavior in order to get
and the treatment plan in the family to see it in a
general? new light

A self-fulfilling prophecy
where subordinates
perform better when Pygmalion
expected to do so by
their superiors is known
as what?
effect

What term is used to describe

when a therapist's ability to
recognize or consider other
symptoms or conditions is
Diagnostic
heavily influenced by one
aspect of a client's symptoms
overshadowing
or condition?

________ bias refers to

an individual inferring
what their internal state
is by perceiving how Self-perception
they are acting in a
given situation.
 What is the most Extinction, which
effective behavioral entails ignoring the
technique to reduce a child's behavior or
school-aged child's not reinforcing it
temper tantrums? with attention

This is a multivariate
technique used to evaluate Structural
the causal (predictive)
influences or test causal
equation
hypotheses about the modeling
relationships among a set
of factors. (SEM)

________ occurs when a

person, in anticipation of
failure, develops explanations
and behavioral reactions to Self-handicapping
minimize ability deficits as
possible attributions for the
failure.

A researcher would use

what technique to classify Discriminant
people into criterion
groups based on their function
scores or status on two or
more predictors? analysis
 Following a stroke, a woman Right postcentral
complains of numbness in her
left hand and she does not gyrus, which is
respond to images presented to located in the parietal
her left visual field, indicating
damage to what part of the lobe and contains the
brain? somatosensory cortex

Kahneman and Tversky's

________ states that Prospect
decisions are based more
heavily on the fear of loss
Theory, which
than the hope of gain, as coined the term
people are more adverse
to loss than risk. "loss aversion"

A primary Crisis Theory,

assumption of this which has
theory is that informed crisis
people can learn to intervention
cope with stress. approaches

The ________
hypothesis states that Catecholamine;
depression is the result
of decreased levels of dopamine;
both ________ and norepinephrine
particularly ________.
 The catecholamine
hypothesis is to Depression;
________ as the psychosis
dopamine hypothesis
is to ________. (schizophrenia)

This approach to treatment of

childhood anxiety teaches
parents to reward their child for Family Anxiety
confronting his/her feared
situation or object while Management
ignoring excessive complaining
when confronted with his/her (FAM)
feared situation or object.

What approach to anxiety

treatment for children is
similar to exposure except Reinforced
that the child receives a
reward following the
exposure?
practice

Evidence of genetic
etiological influences
Antisocial
is strongest for what
Personality
Personality
Disorder? Disorder
BASIC ID is utilized by Lazarus' Multimodal Therapy,
what therapeutic which looks at Beliefs, Affective
approach to assess the responses, Sensations,
Images, Cognitions,
interventions that will Interpersonal relationships, and
work for a particular Drugs (biological functions,
client? nutrition, exercise)

Research indicates
lesbians' disclosure of
sexual orientation is
associated with
Self-esteem
increased ________.

In cases of Adequate
litigation, what is record keeping
considered the key
defense for a and
psychologist? documentation

The ________ states

that as sample size Central
increases, the shape of
a sampling distribution limit
of means becomes
more normal. theorem
 The term ________ refers
to the increased number of
autobiographical
memories older adults
Reminiscence
have for events that
happened between the
bump
ages of 15 and 25.

Super's Life roles, which include

conceptual model child, student, worker,
partner, parent, citizen,
of the life rainbow homemaker, leisurite,
depicts what? and pensioner

True or False: National surveys

comparing rural and urban False- prevalence
areas rates of mental disorders
have found that prevalence rates are not
rates are statistically different
with some disorders more statistically
common in rural or urban
areas?
significant

Broca's area is
located in the
Left frontal;
________ lobe, while
Wernicke's area is in
left
the ________ lobe. temporal
 What is likely to Outburts of aggressive behavior, as
occur as a result of the hypothalamus is associated
with regulating the release of
a lesion in the hormones from the pituitary and
other endocrine glands, maintaining
medial the body's homeostasis, and
mediating aggressive responses
hypothalamus?

First degree relatives Schizotypal

of schizophrenics are
more likely to be Personality
diagnosed ________.
Disorder
On the Halstead-Reitan,
what is derived from the The
number of subtests on
which the examinee Impairment
scored below the
criterion score? Index
Atrophy of the caudate
nucleus is found in
patients with ________, a Huntington's
disorder which includes
affective, motor, and Disease
cognitive symptoms.
 Behavioral
assessments are
useful for determining Contingencies
behavioral ________.

Who proposed a social learning

theory of career development in Krumboltz (Social
which career path is influenced
by genetic endowment, Learning Theory
environmental conditions and
events, learning experiences, of Career
and performance standards
and values?
Decision Making)

True or False: Clients False- the opposite

with high initial anxiety is true, clients with
are more likely to high anxiety are
prematurely drop-out most likely to stay
of therapy? in therapy

A psychologist constructs a new test of

anxiety. He correlates the scores on his Low construct;
new measure with scores on another
measure of anxiety and obtains a more specifically,
correlation of .19. He then correlates
scores on his test with scores on a test of low convergent
extroversion and obtains a correlation of
.62. This would suggest the
psychologist's new test has ________
and divergent
validity. validity
 Who is more likely to Research indicates
display accelerated only-children demonstrate
language development, accelerated language
an only-child or a child development presumably
who has an older sibling due to more parental
who already speaks? attention

Regarding pain, Emotional

what is the anterior reactions to pain
cingulate cortex
believed to be (NOT perception
involved in? of pain)

To assess the reliability of

a characteristic that
fluctuates in severity or
intensity over time, you
Internal
would be best advised to
use the coefficient of
consistency
________.

The ________ occipital

lobe mediates
peripheral vision, while
the ________ occipital
Anterior;
lobe mediates central
vision.
posterior
 What are the Job, person, and
organizational analysis
three (needs analysis are
components of a performed in organizations
to determine training
needs analysis? needs)

The purpose of the

________ method in an
organization is to provide
employees with
Survey
information about the
organization's strengths
and weaknesses.
feedback
The MMPI-A can be
administered to people
aged ________ who
14 to 18
can read at a ________
grade level or better. years; 6th
False- Mothers and fathers tend to
True or False: Mothers report a similar number of problem
and their children tend behaviors for their children, while
their children report a greater
to report fewer problem number of problem behaviors than
behaviors than fathers their parents do (Stanger and Lewis
on internalizing and externalizing
do? behaviors)
 What has been found They are LESS effective
regarding the treatment than parent
of Conduct Disorder management training
using approaches such and multisystems
as "boot camps" or therapy, and can
"tough love?" actually be harmful

According to Minuchin, Triangulation,

________ is a way for which occurs when
family members to avoid conflicting parents
dealing with stress or both try to recruit a
conflict.
child to their side

A person whose
________ has been
severed will not be able
to name an object he
Corpus
cannot see but has felt
with his left hand.
callosum
Preferably at the
At what point is conclusion of
debriefing to occur when participation, but no
research involves later than at the
deception that results in conclusion of data
participant distress? collection
 Stroop color-naming
task has been used to Automatic
study what cognitive
process/phenomenon? processing

This is a present-oriented,
structured and time-limited
Interpersonal
treatment that integrates
biological and
psychotherapy
psychosocial approaches. (IPT)

The ________ model

states simply that each
succeeding child has less
of the family's resources
available to him or her,
Confluence
thus intelligence is
impacted by birth-order.

The incidence of
Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder begins to differ
for males and females
at what age?
6 years
 Symptoms of what
personality disorder tend
to remit with age, to the
Antisocial
point that many people
with such a diagnosis no
Personality
longer meet diagnostic
criteria? Disorder
A whisper being Weber's Law, a
audible in a library psychophysical laws
that explains the
reading room, but not relationship between
in a busy cafeteria is physical stimuli and their
explained by what? psychological effects

The American Psychological

Association's ________
psychological principles focus
on psychological factors that
are primarily internal to and
Learner-centered
under the control of the
learner.

According to research on
organizational justice,
________ justice is the best
predictor of work performance
and of counterproductive work
behavior, while all justice forms
Procedural
are related to organizational
citizenship behaviors.
 True or False: The risk False- the risk is
for depression for about the same
biological offspring is
highest for those who whether they have
have two parents with one or two parents
depression? with depression

The tendency to use a

general word to mean one
very specific thing (e.g.,
"baba" meaning one's own
bottle or "cat" to describe a
Underextension
pet but not other cats) is
referred to as what?

When providers receive a

fixed dollar amount over a
specific period of time to
cover the service needs of
a fixed number of clients, Capitated
fees are said to be
________.

Experiential/creative (refers to
What are the three how unfamiliar circumstances
components of and tasks are dealt with),
analytical (methods used to
intelligence according process and analyze
to Sternberg's triarchic information), and contextual
model of intelligence? (how people respond to
environment)
Psychopharmacological Somatic therapy,
therapy, ECT, and which refers to
psychosurgery (e.g., treatments involving
lobotomy) are all forms manipulation of the
of what? body.

The term "gifted" is

applied to children who Two (IQ of
have an IQ that falls
how many standard 130 +/- 3
deviations above the
mean? points)
Recent research on
retirement indicates
what as being most
Participation
predictive of retirement
satisfaction?
in activities

Super's ________
illustrates the Arch of
psychological and
socioeconomic variables
Career
that shape one's career. Determination
According to the National
Comorbidity Survey (NCS)
findings, what is the
median delay in getting
Nearly a
treatment across all
psychological disorders? decade
According to this type of
psychotherapy, feelings are
acknowledged and accepted as
uncontrollable and the focus is
on taking constructive action,
Morita
not the alleviation of discomfort
or the attainment of some ideal
feeling state.
therapy
Kluver-Bucy Syndrome,
characterized by reduced
fear and aggression,
increased acquiescence,
The
and hypersexuality, is
associated with damage to
what brain structure?
amygdala
This is the procedure
used to determine
what items will be
Item
retained for the final
version of a test? analysis
According to Sue and Sue,
________ is a culturally
influenced characteristic of
communication that refers
to rate of speech, pauses,
Paralanguage
loudness of voice, and
other vocal cues.

The tendency of babies to cry

at the sound of another infant's
cries is referred to as ________
and is considered by
researchers to be the first sign
Emotional
of empathy; this typically
develops between the first few
days and weeks of life.
contagion
What condition is characterized
by anterograde amnesia and
retrograde amnesia that
involves a temporal gradient in
Korsakoff's
which remote events are
recalled better than recent
events?
Syndrome

What happens to the

reliability coefficient
when an examinee
It
correctly guesses the
answers to a test?
decreases
What type of therapy is
being practiced if a
psychotherapist uses a
method called WDEP to
Reality
teach a patient new
ways of coping? Therapy
According to Schema Therapy, ________
occurs when the therapist empathically
confronts a patient with reasons for
change and supplies a partial antidote to
needs that were not adequately met in
childhood, ultimately allowing the patient
Limited
to gain the ability to view their
characterological problems as
ego-dystonic and become more
reparenting
empowered to give them up.

Typically, a ________
level of anxiety contributes
to better task performance;
however, the optimal
Moderate;
anxiety level for complex
tasks is ________ than it
is for simple tasks.
lower

True or False: The True- symptoms

age of onset of typically appear for
schizophrenia is men between 18 -
usually earlier for men 25 years and 25 -
than for women? mid-30s for women
 Troiden's model of
homosexual identity
development indicates
________ typically begin
Males;
to "come out" as
homosexual at a younger
age than ________.
females
What condition is caused by
defective absorption of Normal pressure
cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), in which
the excess CSF enlarges the
hydrocephalus,
ventricles but does not increase
pressure on the brain, causing
which usually
primary symptoms of gait
disturbance, urinary incontinence,
affects people over
and dementia/mental disturbance? 60 y/o

Justification for the use of

a selection procedure or
battery in a new setting Validity
without conducting a local
validation research study generalization
is referred to as what?

One of the primary

symptoms of Parkinson's
disease is ________,
which refers to slowness Bradykinesia/akinesia
and absence of
movement, respectively.
 Studies looking at the
outcomes for rejected and
neglected children have found
that ________ is more stable
Rejection;
(i.e., is likely to continue in a
new environment) than
________.
neglect
The ________ signs of
depression include persistent
problems with appetite, weight
loss or gain, sleep difficulties,
reduced energy level, and Vegetative
changes in sexual desire or
function.

A sequence of
behaviors, in which
each behavior serves as
reinforcement for the
previous behavior, is the
Chaining
outcome of what?

Validity
generalization
studies utilize Meta-analysis
what technique?
 A researcher utilizing
paired-associate and
serial learning tasks is
Verbal
interested in what? learning
According to dual process
models of persuasion, careful
consideration of an argument is
characteristic of the ________
route, while reliance on
Central;
heuristic criteria is
characteristic of the ________
route.
peripheral
An approach to feminist
therapy that emphasizes
the role of the mother/son
versus mother/daughter
Self-in-Relation
relationship in creating Therapy
gender differences in
behavior is called what?

Regarding work team

composition, heterogeneity in
terms of experience, gender,
personality, attitudes, and other
Greater;
characteristics is associated
with ________ productivity and
________ turnover.
increased
On what factor indexes Perceptual
of the WISC-IV do Reasoning Index
children with motor
impairments typically (PRI) and
obtain the lowest Processing Speed
scores? Index (PSI)

A ________ therapist
defines the reality of
their patients
Culturally
according to their own encapsulated
cultural assumptions.

What is the Standard deviation

equation for the x square root of (1
standard error of - reliability
measurement? coefficient)

During what stage, Concrete

according to Piaget, are operational
children able to truly
understand addition and stage (7 through
subtraction? 11 years)
 The paradoxical technique
used by family therapists
where the client is instructed
not to change, usually in
response to the client's belief
Restraining
that they cannot change, is
called what?

True or False: When treating True- due to the fact

a person with a diagnosis of that the feared stimuli
Specific Phobia, initially increases heart
Blood-Injury-Injection Type, rate and blood pressure,
relaxation techniques are but is followed by a drop
contraindicated?
in both and fainting

The process of converting

from antibody-negative to
antibody-positive, in the
context of exposure to Seroconversion
HIV, is referred to as
what?

There is some evidence Misdiagnosis of hallucinations

and delusions, as research
that higher rates of indicates African-Americans
Schizophrenia have higher incidence of
diagnoses among hallucinations/delusions that
are actually due to other
African-Americans is disorders (e.g., mania,
attributable to what? depression, alcohol abuse)
 True or False: The
average ages of
disclosure for gay men
and lesbians are not
significantly different?
True
According to research by Baker
and Green, younger adults with
chronic pain tend to report
________ pain intensity and
More;
________ symptoms of
depression than older adults
with chronic pain. more
Women in what ethnic
group have the American
highest lifetime rates Indian/Alaska
of victimization by an
intimate partner? Native

What neurotransmitter has

been implicated in both
long-term potentiation and
the "excitotoxicity"
believed to underlie
Glutamate
several neurodegenerative
disorders?
 What symptoms of Affective, though
Borderline Personality research has
Disorder show the least shown that most
amount of improvement symptoms resolve
with age?
by middle-age

The National Epidemiologic 45 to 64 years,

Survey of Alcoholism and
Related Conditions (NESARC) suggesting highest
found the highest risk for Major
Depressive Disorder was
risk is for
among people between what middle-age
ages? baby-boomers

A ________ facilitates
the flow of information
between involved
parties and helps them
progress toward an
Mediator
acceptable compromise.

In developing a job The ultimate

performance measure, a (conceptual)
construct that cannot
actually be measured is criterion (e.g.,
referred to was what? "good employee")
 A/an ________ variable
accounts for the relationship
between an independent and
dependent variable, while a/an
________ variable affects the
Mediator;
strength of the relationship
between a predictor and
criterion.
moderator

People with a high need

for achievement are most Unstable (e.g., lack
likely to attribute their of effort); stable
failures to ________ (e.g., conditions
internal factors or to
________ external factors. were biased)

According to the DSM, the

need to increase the amount of
the drug to achieve desired
effects or a markedly
diminished effect of the drug
with continued use of the same
Tolerance
amount is defined as what?

According to ________,
training in organizational Bandura's
settings is most effective Social Learning
when trainees possess
prerequisite skills. Theory
 According to Mahler's
object-relations theory,
________ represents
development of a permanent Separation-individuation
sense of self and a
permanent mental
representation of the other.

Hydrocephalus is the
result of a build-up of Cerebrospinal
________ in the fluid (CSF);
________ of one's
brain. ventricles

The split-half reliability Less than, as the

coefficient for a more reliability coefficient
homogenous group will be
_______ the reliability increases as
coefficient for a more variability in scores
heterogenous group. increase

When defining goals,

transformational
leaders use ________
to imbue the goal with
Framing
meaning and purpose.
Conceptualization, skills
acquisition, and Stress
application are the three
overlapping stages of inoculation
Mechenbaum's
________. training
According to Herbert
Simon, ________ refers to
limitations on a
decision-maker's choices
Bounded
created by social, legal,
moral, and organizational
factors.
discretion
A person whose
responses on a
forced-choice recognition
test of memory is worse Malingering
than chance is likely
demonstrating what?

True or False: A client's True- privilege is also waived if

privilege is waived when 1) the client is a minor and the
the information is therapist suspects s/he is a
requested at a proceeding victim of child abuse and 2) if
initiated by the client in a the therapist has reasonable
criminal action to suspicion to believe the client is
a danger to another person
determine her/his sanity?
 Bazerman, Tenbrunsel, and
Wade-Benzoni distinguish
between the ________ (rational
and cool-headed) and the Should-self;
________ (emotional and
hot-headed), which is useful for
understanding ethical
want-self
decision-making.

New research has

shown that nicotine
enhances alertness and
memory by mimicking Acetylcholine
________ at receptor
sites.

What increases the Start the time-out

effectiveness of with a brief
the time-out
explanation of why
method behavioral it is being applied
modification?

According to APA's General

Guidelines for Providers of

User
Psychological Services, a
________ of clinical and counseling
psychological services includes
direct users, third party purchasers,
sanctioners, and public/private
facilities and organizations
receiving psychological services.
 What is a primary
concern for a Criterion
measure of
performance that is contamination
subjectively scored?

The most critical

Extinction (exposure
component of systematic to the conditioned
desensitization, based on stimulus without the
dismantling strategies, unconditioned
appears to be what?
stimulus)

The ________ is a performance

appraisal technique used to provide
employees with feedback about their job
Critical
performance; it involves having a
supervisor observe an employee during a
certain period and record the employee's
behaviors that represent satisfactory or
Incident
unsatisfactory performance.
Technique
A person is unable to Apperceptive visual
identify a familiar object by agnosia, which is
sight but can identify it
once placed in her hand. caused by lesions in the
What is the name and visual association cortex
cause of this condition? of the occipital lobe
 Jerome Kagan's
research has
demonstrated that the
difference in high- and
Genetic
low-reactive infants is
partially due to what? factors
A child who refers to all
four-legged animals as
"doggy" is demonstrating Overextension;
________, while the overregularization
statement "I runned fast"
exemplifies ________.

Patients with ________

aphasia are more likely to
exhibit indifference and
paranoia, while those with
Wernicke's;
________ aphasia
sometimes exhibit anxiety
Broca's
and depression.

What model has The multi-store model,

provided the most which proposes three
distinct memory systems-
widely-accepted sensory register,
explanation of the short-term memory, and
serial position effect? long-term memory
 A person exhibiting
impairments in the
organization and
coordination of voluntary
Basal
motor responses most
likely has damage to what
brain structure?
ganglia
A child between 8 and 12
months-old begins to search for
a hidden object, though
The
reaches for the object in the
place it was last found, even
when they had seen the object
A-not-B
moved to another location. This
is referred to as what? error
Dysgraphia, finger
agnosia, acalculia, and
right-left disorientation is
Gerstmann's
characteristic of what
condition?
Syndrome

What are the three Diagnosis of

most consistent depression,
predictors of antisocial
adolescent behaviors, and use
suicide? of drugs/alcohol
 What approach to the treatment of Multi-Systemic Therapy
antisocial behavior in juvenile (MST), which targets
offenders views individuals as being chronic, violent, or
nested within a complex network of
interconnected systems that substance abusing
encompass individual, family, and juvenile offenders at high
extrafamilial (peer, school, risk of out-of-home
neighborhood) factors?
placement

What parasomnia occurs REM sleep behavior disorder,

later in the night than where the temporary muscle
paralysis that normally occurs
non-REM disorders and during REM sleep does not occur
usually affects so individuals may act out dreams
middle-aged or elderly through potentially violent
movements or behaviors during
individuals, especially sleep that can cause injuries to
males? themselves or bed partners

The head of a psychological

clinic hires a consultant to
help therapists deal with
some particularly difficult
Client-centered
cases at the agency. This is
an example of ________
case
consultation.

A seventh-grade boy has been Conners Rating Scales-R,

acting-out at school, disrupting which is used to identify
class, and refusing to follow hyperactivity and other
directions. What measure might behavioral problems in
a school psychologist find most individuals aged 3 to 17
useful in assessing this years by obtaining reports
student?
from teachers and parents
 When constructing an
achievement test, what would
Item response
be used to compare total test
scores of a sample of
theory (item
examinees to the proportion of
examinees who answered each
response
item correctly? curve)

What two aspects of the

Type A pattern of
behavior, according to
researchers, has the
Hostility
strongest association to
increased risk for coronary
heart disease?
and anger
What is the main
commonality Daytime
between
narcolepsy and
sleep
hypersomnia? attacks
Women with a ________
level of education and
marry at a ________ age
experience the highest
Lower;
rates of divorce, according
to the National Survey of
Family Growth.
younger
Psychopharmacological
treatment of Alzheimer's
dementia (e.g., Aricept, Acetylcholine
Cognex) are believed to
increase levels of what (ACh)
neurotransmitter?

What form of therapy, Logotherapy,

developed by Frankl, which is a form
assists patients in
developing meaning of existential
in life? therapy

What procedure
summarizes and identifies
key variables that describe
the consequences of HR
Utility
programs to improve
decision making? analysis
When a reliable job Criterion deficiency
performance measure (something in the
has low validity, it is
usually the result of criterion used is
________. missed)
 What condition is
associated with individuals
having amyloid plaques Parkinson's
and neurofibrillary tangles
and in some cases when
advanced, dementia?
Disease

According to Primary circular

Piaget, a child reaction, which are
centered around a
sucking her thumb baby's own body and
is an example of involve simple motor
a/an ________. tasks

A predictor with a
criterion-related validity
Low (many
coefficient of .46 will be applicants to
most useful when there is
a ________ selection ratio choose from);
and ________ base rate. moderate

The ability to
perceive and
identify objects by Stereognosis
touch is referred to
as what?
The complete cessation
of eating is called
________, while Aphagia;
________ refers to
excessive eating and hyperphagia
severe obesity.

What schedule of
reinforcement produces
the phenomenon where
responses are slow at the
Fixed
beginning of a time period
and then faster just before
reinforcement occurs?
interval
An employee's level
of organizational
commitment has the
Job
highest correlation
with what? turnover
Variance, range, and
standard deviation are all
________, representing
Measures
the amount of difference in
responses from a
of
population or sample on a
topic of investigation. variability
What court case defined Larry P. vs Riles, which
the relationship between banned the use of IQ
standard intellectual tests in the placement of
assessments and minority children in
placement in Mental special education
Retardation classes? classes

Which of Kramer's Relativist reasoning, which

stages of cognitive includes an awareness of
development in alternative perspectives on
adulthood would be issues and the importance
most improved by a of context when finding
college education? answers to questions

A young man with schizophrenia Avolition (lack of

has difficulty initiating activities,
such as paying his bills, starting
initiative,
assignments or reading, and once
he does get started, he is unable to
motivation or
finish. This exemplifies what
symptom of schizophrenia?
goal-directed
activities)

What does the Tremor, rigidity,

hallmark motor
triad of Parkinson's and slowed
disease includes? movement
 True or False: False- it is
Childhood-onset more prevalent
OCD is more
prevalent in girls in boys than
than it is in boys? girls

What is the To train and

Leaderless Group evaluate
Discussion used
for in managerial-level
organizations? employees

A researcher administers Split-plot ANOVA (or

only one level of Variable mixed), which is used
A but all levels of Variable when a study includes
B to each participant. both between-groups
What statistic would be and within-subjects
used to analyze this data? comparisons

A child who, after several

months of normal
development, loses the
ability to speak and make
Rett's
purposeful hand
movements would likely
receive what diagnosis?
Disorder
 What measure of Leiter International
intelligence is best to Performance
use when evaluating a Scale, which is
child with hearing and completely
language impairments?
nonverbal

A ________ is a person
appointed by the court to
represent and make
decisions in a legal
Guardian
proceeding for a minor or
other person deemed legally
incapable of doing so.
ad litem
When is habituation When the intensity
most likely to be a of the punishment
problem when using is gradually
punishment to increased over
modify behavior? time

In second-order (or The second

higher-order) conditioned response
conditioning, which will be weaker than
response will be the first conditioned
weaker? response
A therapist practicing from the Motivational
________ approach asks
open-ended questions, interviewing, which
provides affirmations to the considers these
client, listens reflectively, and
summarizes the client's strategies principle
statements. to treatment

An interview with a 6 y/o Open-ended,

will yield the most which cannot be
thorough and less
biased information if the answered with a
interviewer asks simple "yes" or
________ questions. "no"

According to Sue and As mechanisms of survival- playing

Sue, African-American it cool helps conceal feelings that
clients use "playing it might be unacceptable to whites
and that, if expressed, could lead to
cool" and "Uncle Tom harm and exploitation, while Uncle
Syndrome" for what Tom Syndrome refers to the use of
passivity as a defense
purpose?

The ________
hypothesis states Catecholamine;
drugs that increase
________ levels will norepinephrine
alleviate depression.
 According to the Ohio
State leadership
Behavior, as
studies, consideration opposed to
and initiating structure personality or
are descriptions of a
leader's ________. attitude

According to Holland's The predictability of

theory of vocational the
choice, a high degree
of differentiation person-environment
increases what? interaction

What is true about the

sexual identification of They are
men diagnosed with predominantly
Transvestic
Fetishism? heterosexual

The confluence model Birth order, with

posited by Zajonc firstborns doing
considers what to be a
primary factor in better on academic
intellectual tests than their
development? younger siblings
 True or False: Research False- research
has supported Anna
Freud's proposition that has indicated that
adolescents experience adolescence is not
significant
"storm-and-stress," which a time of significant
is normal? storm-and-stress

In group therapy, a Unrealistic

member's ________ expectations
has been found to be
the best predictor of and unfavorable
premature termination. attitudes

According to
attachment theory, a
An internal
patient's transference
is a manifestation of
working
what? model
What theory predicts
that cognitive events act Bandura's
as intervening variables Social Learning
in the acquisition of a
new behavior? Theory
What behavioral technique
involves identifying and
applying punishments for
undesirable behaviors and
Contingency
indentifying and applying
reinforcements for
Management
desirable behaviors?

The ________ is located in the

parietal lobe and contains the
primary somatosensory cortex
which receives signals related
Postcentral
to pressure, temperature, pain,
proprioception, and gestation.
gyrus

What were the results of

Ebbinghaus' research on Rote learning
memory and forgetting,
which he conducted on leads to rapid
himself by memorizing lists
of nonsense syllables? forgetting

True or False: A False- this is not

5-year-old understand typically the case
that TV commercials
serve the purpose of until children are in
influencing him to second or third
purchase something? grade
 A person diagnosed with
OCD takes Clomipramine
(Anafranil) and
experiences a decrease in
symptoms. This is due to Serotonin
the medications effect on
what neurotransmitter?

A researcher who wants to Multiple baseline, as it

avoid having to control, or involves sequentially
remove, an effective applying a treatment
treatment during the
course of a study would across two or more
most likely use what baselines (i.e., settings,
research design? behaviors, participants)

The term ________ refers to

when reinforcement is followed
first by a pause in response
Scallop;
then an increased response
rate until the next
reinforcement; it occurs when a
fixed
________ schedule of
reinforcement is used. interval (FI)
Coefficient Internal
alpha is a consistency (how
well items on a test
measure of correlation with
what? other test items)
 Compared to Whites,
African-Americans have
________ rates for
outpatient mental health
Lower;
services but ________
rates for public inpatient
mental health services.
higher
In data collection, Likert scales
what is most often (e.g., rating one's
used to quantify level of joy on a
subjective data? scale from 1 to 5)

Changing the level It will decrease

of significance power, as it will
(alpha) from .05 to make rejecting the
.01 will have what null hypothesis
effect on power? more difficult

Unpleasant feelings of
physical restlessness as
a side-effect of taking
antipsychotic medication
Akathisia
are referred to as what?
 What is the primary Intergenerational
source of stress for conflicts arising from
refugees and
immigrants once they different degrees of
arrive in their new acculturation among
country? family members

Addictive disease
According to the process (long-term use
biopsychosocial model, causes brain
the ________ accounts dysfunction, which
for relapse among results in personality
substance abusers. and social problems)

In determining the Cost utility, which

impact of a treatment on involves attributing
a client's quality of life, a monetary values to
________ analysis different quality of
would be conducted.
life indices

A colleague of yours informs

you that he is not going to file a File a report with
report of child abuse he learned
about during a session, as he the appropriate
fears it will hinder his rapport
with his client, the perpetrator. authorities
In this situation, what should
you do? yourself
 What is the standard
error of measurement The standard
for a test with a deviation of
reliability coefficient of
0 equal to? the test

What statistical technique Stepwise multiple regression,

would be used to which involves adding or
determine if four predictors subtracting predictors one at a
time to determine the minimal
are better for predicting number needed to make
criterion performance than accurate predictions about
three predictors? criterion performance

True or False:
Transsexualism is
included in the
diagnosis of Gender
Identity Disorder?
True
In item response theory,
the probability that an
examinee with a given
level of the ability
Item
measured by the test will
answer the item correctly
is referred to as what?
difficulty
What term, according to
Donald Super, refers to
the individual's mastery
Career
of tasks at each
developmental stage? maturity
What demographic
has the highest
Never
admission rates to
state/county inpatient
married
mental hospitals? men
True or False: Factor False- they are
analyses of tests designed relatively
to measure psychomotor
skills have revealed these independent, as
skills are dependent on there is no general
one another? psychomotor factor

The use of shaping

to establish a Positive
complex behavior
is a function of reinforcement
what?
A researcher would use
an ABAB design rather
than an AB design in
order to control for what
threat to validity?
History
What theory predicts
that behaviors are the
The theory
result of attitudes,
subjective norms, and
of planned
behavioral intentions? behavior
What theory of career
decision-making proposes
that career decisions are
Krumboltz'
based primarily on what
we have learned,
social learning
especially from our
interactions with others?
theory

A person with Good (a family

schizophrenia comes from history of
a family with a history of
mood disorder, which is schizophrenia is
associated with a associated with a
________ prognosis. poor prognosis)