Theories
What theorist believed that the modification of existing cognitive schemas were needed to incorporate new knowledge; this is known as Accomodation
Who is Piaget
Contridictory emotions that occur at the same time within a person. Sometimes this can be persistent and is known for chronic indecisiveness, mixed feelings, and a sense of being conflicted or stuck
What is Ambivalence
Symptoms may include: Euphoria, anxiety, paranoid ideations, tachycardia, dilated pupils, perspiration, confusion and seizures
What is Amphetamine / Cocaine intoxication
These studies conducted in a 'facimile of reality' or an artificial setting. There results may have limited generalizability.
What are Analogue Studies
A legal document through which an individual makes his/her wishes known about health care decisions in the event he/she becomes incapacitated and unable to communicate the wishes
What is Advanced Directive
This is the third stage of Piagets model of cognitive development. During this stage, children acquire logical operations and use logic to reason about events or situations. Children at this stage can conserve
What is Concrete Operational Stage
What is Active Listening
One of the most common neurological complications of HIV; Produces behavioral changes and diminished mental functioning
What is Aids Dementia Complex (Or - Neurocognitive Disorder due to HIV Disease)
The measure of central tendency that is the arithmetic average of a set of scores
What is Arithmetic Mean
Social, Medical, Legal, Residential, Custodial and other services provided to adults who are unable to provide these services for themselves. Eligibility is often determined by the court system.
What is Adult Protective Services
Who is Piaget
Androgyny
The essential features of this disorder are a.) restriction of energy intake that leads to a significantly low body weight b) an intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat c.) behaviors that interfere with weight gain. Onset is typical in adolescence; treatment includes contingency management, cognitive therapy and family therapy
What is Anorexia Nervosa
This is the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true. (i.e: the probability of making a type I error)
What is the Alpha (Level of Significance)
This is the denial or restriction of material conditions (access to healthcare as an example) and access to power to members of minority groups
What is Institutional Racism
A theory of motivation that predicts the motivation (eg motivation to remain in a relationship) is affected by the comparison of input/output ratios
What is Equity Theory
This is an inability to feel joy or express pleasurable emotions
What is Anhedonia
Withdrawal, depression and developmental delays resulting from the loss of an attachment figure during infancy, especially when the loss occurs during the second half of the first year of life.
What is Anaclitic Depression
This is the degree to which a study's results can be generalized to other people, settings, conditions - etc
What is External Validity
Legislation that requires companies with 25 or more employees to avoid using procedures that discriminate against people with physical or mental disabilities and when a disabled person is able to perform the essential function of a job, they are to consider the person qualified and make reasonable accommodations
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act
For this theorist; anxiety is a factor in both normal and personality functioning and pathological behavior. He believed there were 3 types: Reality (objective anxiety), neurotic anxiety and moral anxiety.
Who is Freud
The cultural modification of an individual, group or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture. This includes the degree to which a member of a culturally diverse group within a society accepts and adheres to the behaviors, values etc of his/her own group and the dominant majority group.
What is Acculturation
This disorder involves the development of emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to one or more identifiable psychosocial stressors within 3 months of the onset of the stressor. Symptoms must be clinically significant as evidenced by the precense of marked distress that is not proportional to the severity of the stressor and/or causes significant impairment of functioning
What are Adjustment Disorders
This is "After The Fact" research in which the experiemental treatment (independent variable) has been applied prior to the onset of the study. These studies do not allow the experimenter to control the assignment of subjects to treatment groups - this makes them quasi-experimental research
This is a program that provides benefits to individuals with injuries or diseases traceable to industrial accidents and with certain occupational diseases. The benefits provided include perodic cash payments and medical services to the worker during a period of disablement. Death and funeral benefits to the workers surviors as well.
What is Workers Compensation