Assessment & Diagnoses
Define fluid and crystalized intelligence.
What is the ability to acquire new knowledge and solve new problems and knowledge and learning gained over one's lifetime?
Albert Ellis is responsible for the development of which treatment model?
What is Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy?
CNS and ANS are acronyms for which structures?
What are central nervous system and autonomic nervous system?
Sensorimotor (0–2 years old), Preoperational (2–7 years old), Concrete operational (7–11 years old), and Formal operational (11 years old through adulthood) are stages in which theorists Cognitive Development Theory?
Who is Piaget?
Pairing an undesirable behavior w/an incompatible behavior so the undesirable behavior is eliminated is called?
What is counterconditioning?
What factor differentiates Brief Psychotic Disorder, Schizophreniform disorder, and Schizophrenia?
What is duration of symptoms/time?
Brief Psychotic Disorder: >1 day, <1 month
Schizophreniform: >1 month, <6 months
Schizophrenia: >6 months
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (Linehan, 1980) emphasizes 4 core skills. What are they?
What is mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness?
The substantia nigra is implicated in which medical diagnosis?
What is Parkinson's disease?
Children of this type of parent are moody, irritable, discontented, withdraw, distrustful, aggressive, and have more behavior disorders.
What are Authoritarian parents?
Amnesia for information prior to a particular event is called?
What is Retrograde amnesia?
The combination of acting on urges and feeling distressed is associated with which diagnostic category?
What is Paraphilias?
Caplan (1964) introduced 3 levels of prevention: primary, secondary, and tertiary. What is the difference between the three types?
What is primary prevention prevents onset of disorder; secondary identifies those at risk early; tertiary is meant to help control symptoms of disorder?
The dura mater, arachnoid mater, and pia mater are membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord. These are called...
What are meninges?
Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Approach encompasses 5 stages which are (in order)?
What are microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem?
Gambling is an example of which schedule of reinforcement?
What is Variable Ratio?
Kohut (1971) and Kernberg (1975) were psychoanalysts that developed differing etiological ideas related to which personality disorder?
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Prochaska and DiClemente's (1983) Transtheoretical Model of Change emphasizes changes over 5 stages. What is the 3rd stage and please provide an example.
What is Preparation? Janice has acknowledged that she has an issue with drinking. She intends to join a rehabilitation program in 3 weeks.
A long-lasting strengthening of the response of a postsynaptic nerve cell to stimulation across the synapse that occurs with repeated stimulation and is thought to be related to learning and long-term memory...
What is Long-term Potentiation?
"Good boy/good girl" is stage 3 in Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Reasoning. In which overarching level is stage 3 housed?
What is Conventional Morality?
Also known as adventitious reinforcement, responses reinforced accidentally by coincidental pairing of response & reinforcement is called?
What is superstitious learning?
The idea that depression is due to low norepinephrine, and mania is due to high norepinephrine is what etiological theory?
What is Catecholamine Hypothesis?
There are numerous family therapy models. Of those that are most prominent include one that focuses on hierarchy, boundaries, and subsystems, as well as another that posits that pathology is repeated throughout the generations. Who are the creators of these two models and what are the models names?
Who is Minuchin (Structural Family therapy) and Bowen (Multigenerational Family Therapy)?
True or False: Damage to Wernicke's area results in loss or impairment in producing speech.
What is False.
This is a description of Broca's aphasia meaning damage to Broca's area.
Erikson's (1958, 1963) stages of Psychosocial Development each have 1 strength/virtue that is achieved. The strengths, in order, are...
What are hope, will, purpose, competence, fidelity, love, care, wisdom.
When recently learned information interferes with the recall of material learned before, what is happening?
What is Retroactive Inhibition/Interference?