Diagnostic Criteria & Stuff
This psychotic disorder ranges in duration from one day to one month
What is Brief Psychotic Disorder
A model which consists of the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem.
What is Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model?
The CNS is made up of these two organs.
What are the brain and spinal cord?
The most common data collection method that is cheap and easy to accomplish but often weak in reliability and validity.
What is self-report?
The goals of this type of therapy are to bring the unconscious into conscious awareness and integrate repressed material into the personality.
What is Freudian psychoanalysis?
This specifier would be used for a temporal relationship between the onset of a mood disorder and a particular time of year.
What is seasonal pattern?
This chromosomal disorder is caused by an extra 21st chromosome.
What is Down Syndrome?
This neurotransmitter is associated with Parkinson's Disease
What is dopamine
These variables affect the strength or direction the relationship between the independent and dependent variables.
What are moderators?
OARS is an acronym for open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries which are techniques used in this therapy modality.
What is motivational interviewing?
This symptom often involves loosening of associations manifested as incoherence, answers that are unresponsive to questions, and slipping off track from one topic to another
What is disorganized thinking
Exposure to this teratogen during pregnancy can increase the risk for miscarriage and premature birth, lead to excessively irritable and reactive babies, and increase risk of learning disabilities and behavioral problems during the early school years.
What is cocaine?
This part of the hind brain regulates automatic responses such as breathing and heart rate.
What is the medulla oblongata?
This threat to internal validity can occur when there are substantial lengths of time (months or years) between measurements of the DV after the IV has been administered in an experiment.
What is maturation?
This type of therapy targets at least one of the four areas: unresolved grief, role disputes, role transitions, and interpersonal deficits.
What is interpersonal therapy (IPT)?
This is the best diagnosis for a 18 year old student who was referred for not acting like themself over the past couple weeks including being disruptive in class by talking a lot and loudly to classmates, being distracted easily, a lack of sleep, a large increase in drinking, and no longer turning in any assignments.
What is Bipolar I disorder?
Enrolling your athletic child in sports is an example of this type of genotype-environment correlation.
What is passive?
Damage to this part of the brain can cause ataxia.
What is the cerebellum?
According to Spearman's 2-factor theory, performance on a cognitive task consists of these two things.
What is g (general intelligence) and s (specific factors unique to a task)?
The empty chair technique and dream work are techniques commonly used in this type of therapy.
What is Gestalt therapy?
The concordance rate for schizophrenia among monozygotic twins
What is 48%?
This early reflex refers to the tendency for a baby's toes to fan out when the soles of their feet are tickled.
What is the Babinski reflex?
Damage to this part of the prefrontal cortex causes impairment in judgement, planning, and organization.
What is the dorsolateral area?
This phenomenon refers to the consistently observed increase in IQ scores for approximately 70 years (3 point increase per decade).
What is the Flynn Effect?
What is structural family therapy?